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Manuscript notes and writings of George Mackay Brown, including journal entries, lists, drafts of a short story, review, and poems.
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Identifier: Acc.13910
Scope and Contents
Assorted fragments of manuscript writing, including:A list of essays by George Mackay Brown for a proposed collection, 'drawn up with Brian Murray 23 November 1992'.A letter, 1993, from Celtic Cross Press concerning a review for 'A girdle round the moon', by Christopher J Moore, with notes of George Mackay Brown concerning the book written on the envelope.A manuscript draft, Christmas Eve 1981, of a story beginning 'The yellow dynasty it was called'....
Dates:
1979-1992, undated.
Miscellaneous documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.
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Identifier: MS.5407
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous documents, 1539-1838, relating to the burgh of Montrose and the surrounding country. They include papers relating to the Priory (folios 5-6, 11) and the town council (passim), the death-roll of the Plague, 1648 (folio 18), and fragments of the treasurers' accounts, 1676-1704 (folios 37-53); from folio 54 onwards are a number of legal papers, some fragmentary, mainly concerning lands in Angus.(ii) Miscellaneous documents,...
Dates:
1539-1838.