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Autobiography and diaries of foreign travel, circa 1953-1979, of Helen Henderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8867
Scope and Contents

With photocopies of poetry, circa 1890, of William Constable (originals now destroyed).

Dates: circa 1890, circa 1953-1979.

Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.23761-23930
Scope and Contents

Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.

Dates: 1743-1944, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11750/1-122
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.

Dates: 1950-1995.

Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.

 File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates: 1815-1865, undated.

Literary papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11089
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.

Dates: 1950-1994.

Manuscript and typescript of an autobiography, "The Buzzing Fly" by Fanny Susan Copeland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11904
Scope and Contents

Concerns Copeland`s life in Slovenia and wartime internment in Italy. Includes poems and biographical notes.

Dates: circa 1960-1975.

Miscellaneous letters and manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3112

Papers of Alexander Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12236
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, noteboooks, and manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, fiction, plays, autiobiographical and critical works.

Dates: 1931-1981.

Papers of and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10173- is now MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1927-1978.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9045
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, a novel, autobiography, essays and articles.

Dates: 1964-1985.

Papers of S Marshak.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3945
Scope and Contents

Including, chapter of autobiographical novel, "At the Beginning of Life", two poems and translations of poems of Burns and others.

Dates: 20th century.

Papers of Sydney Durward Tremayne (1912-1986), the poet and journalist.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26675-26703
Scope and Contents

Sydney Durward Tremayne, who was born in Ayr, worked for provincial newspapers before becoming a leader-writer for the ‘Daily Mirror’, the ‘Daily Herald’ and the ‘Sun’; he also published several small collections of poems. Apart from his autobiography, the papers do not concern his work as a journalist.

Dates: 1947-1986, undated.

Papers of the Shaw family, Corgarff.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5953
Scope and Contents

Including five school books, a collection of verse, and the autobiography, circa 1860, of Alexander Shaw.

Dates: 19th century.

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Names
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Constable, William, Kinross, fl 1890 1
Copeland, Fanny Susan, translator and journalist, 1872-1970 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1