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Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12015/1-57
Scope and Contents

This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.

Acc.12015/57 gives biographical details on individual correspondents.

Dates: [Circa 1971-2000], undated.

Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.

 File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates: 1696-1891, undated.

Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.7
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) an engraved portrait of Boyd, 1596, by Thomas de Leu, or De Leeuw (folio 1), made probably when he was at Paris;(ii) an account of the family of Boyd (by Robert Boyd of Trochrig), undated, written to an unidentified correspondent (folio 1);(iii) heads of lectures on the Institutions of Justinian, entitled `In Instituta Imperatoris commenta, 1591` (folio 3), accompanied by marginalia, some lengthy, as far as folio 52 verso;...
Dates: 1590-1596, 1671, and undated.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates: 1778-1791.

Corrected proofs of John Bellany and Alan Bold, "Homage to MacDiarmid".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9156
Scope and Contents

With lithographic plates, and manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem.

Dates: circa 1986.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents

Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.

Dates: 1792-mid 20th century.

Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9468
Scope and Contents

On possible misinterpretation of his remarks on America.

Includes:

letter, 1857, of Roualeyn Gordon Cumming to Livingstone, acknowledging a copy of his book

photocopy of a poem, 1874, on Livingstone.

Dates: 1857-1874.

Draft poetry and prose of Bill Sutherland.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14020
Scope and Contents

With press cuttings, two audio cassettes and copies of 4 publications by Bill Sutherland: 'A Clydeside Lad' (Clydeside Press, 1990); 'Highflats sonnets and other jokes' (n.p., n.d.); 'The Anatony of Wavie McSurd' (Dumbarton: The Author, n.d.); 'Sonnets of a year' (?Dumbarton: ?The Author, n.d.).

Dates: Circa 1980-2010.

Drafts and corrected typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "The Gowks of Mowdieknowes".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5761
Scope and Contents

With associated correspondence, and photocopies of a play and three poems.

Dates: 1963.

Drafts of Alan Bold, "A Celtic Quintet".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8325
Scope and Contents

With proofs and litho plates.

Dates: 1982.

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Manuscripts. 51
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Lists. 12
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Undetermined 25
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Names
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 6
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 4
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 4
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 3
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Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 2
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 2
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Holton, Harvey, poet, 1949-2010 2
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 2
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 2
Turner, William Price, author, 1927-1988 2
Watson, Roderick, poet, b 1943 2
Akros, literary magazine 1
Bellany, John (artist) 1
Blaikie, Walter Biggar, historian, civil engineer and publisher, 1847-1928: collector 1
Blair, Robert, Minister of Athelstaneford, 1699-1746 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Cope, Sir John, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1690-1760 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Gairm Publications 1
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hadfield, Jen (poet and artist) 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Hendry, Diana Lois, poet and children's writer, b 1941 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, 1943-2015 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 1
Jackson, Alan, poet, b 1938 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Jarvie, Gordon, writer and editor, b.1941. 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873: recipient 1
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 1
Mariscat Press (poetry publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 1
Riddell, Alan, poet and editor, b 1927 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Scottish Episcopal Church 1
Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 1
Shayer, Michael (psychologist) 1
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth 1
Sutherland, Bill (author of 'A Clydeside Lad') 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Thomas, Ruth, writer, b. 1967 1
Urquhart, Frederick Burrows, writer, 1912-1995 1
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 1
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 1
Whyte, Hamish (poet and publisher) 1
Wilkinson, George Howard, Scottish Episcopal bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, 1833-1907 1
Wordsworth, Charles, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1806-1892 1
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