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Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.
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.
Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.
Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.
The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The ends of our tethers', by Alasdair Gray, with some related cuttings and correspondence.
Manuscripts notes for and drafts of reviews and articles of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Mostly on artistic subjects.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of Gavin Ewart, poet.
Notebooks and translations of Charles K Scott Moncrieff.
Papers, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles and reviews, of Robert Nye; with manuscript and typescript drafts of the anthologies, 'The English sermon, 1750-1850' (1976), and 'The faber book of sonnets' (1976), edited by Nye, with associated correspondence.
Papers of George S Fraser.
Including typescript drafts of poems, lectures, articles and reviews.
Papers of the Hon William Douglas Home.
Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of a play, memoirs and reviews, together with correspondence on theatrical matters.