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Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Editorial correspondence and papers of Derick S Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11418
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Thomson`s "Companion to Gaelic Scotland" and "Gairm" magazine

Dates: circa 1952-1992.

Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.

 File
Identifier: MS.9809
Scope and Contents Most of the material concerns the artists Walter Richard Sickert and James McBey. The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, 1910-1932, undated, chiefly concerning McBey's paintings and etchings, but including a few letters of Sickert (folio 1);(ii) Printed and manuscript articles by Sickert, 1912-1932, undated, most of which have been reprinted in ‘A free house! ... the writings of Walter Richard Sickert’, edited by Osbert Sitwell (London, 1947)...
Dates: 1910-1935, undated.

Literary papers, a political notebook and letters of Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, Politician and Author [1845-1937]. With three letters to Gavin Maxwell.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13262
Scope and Contents

The main interest of the papers lies in the manuscripts and proofs of some of Sir Herbert’s many literary works including `Robert the Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence`, 1897, `The Chevalier of the Splendid Crest`, 1900, `A Century of Empire, 1801-1900`, 1909, `Inter-alia : A Scottish Calendar of Crime and other historical essays`, 1924, and `Evening Memories`, 1932.

Dates: 1884-1937, 1945, undated

Manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of work by Alexander Scott (1920-1989).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26474-26481
Scope and Contents

Alexander Scott was educated in Aberdeen, and after service in the army during the Second World War, became a lecturer in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He was the editor of the ‘Saltire Review’, 1954-1957, served on a number of literary committees, and edited work by William Soutar and Sydney Goodsir Smith, among others. His own literary work consisted of poetry, drama, and criticism.

Dates: 1948-1970, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

Papers concerning the literary magazine, "Akros".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8404
Scope and Contents

Comprising corrected typescripts and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1976-1982.

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 "Cencrastus".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10532
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories and poems, and business records including minute books, corrspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1980-1991.

Papers of "Cencrastus".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10396

Papers of "Chapman".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10533
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories, and poems, together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1976-1980.

Papers of "Chapman".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11510
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1987-1989.

Papers of the "Edinburgh Review".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9635
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of articles, short stories, poems and reviews, with associated correspondence.

Dates: 1980-1987.

Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13476/1-319
Scope and Contents John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates: 1927-1978, undated.

Small collections of literary material.

 Series
Identifier: MS.15941

'Some terrible letters from Scotland communicated by The Ettrick Shepherd.’

 File
Identifier: MS.3810
Scope and Contents

Descriptions, in the hand of James Hogg, of real or imaginary incidents of the cholera plague of 1832 in Lothian, on the West Coast, and in Fisherrow, in letters purporting to have been written to him by Andrew Ker, alias Clapperton, Alexander McAlister, mate of the ‘Jane Hamilton’ of Port Glasgow, and James McL-- respectively.

Also printed proofs of an article by James Douglas, titled, 'The three plagues of Bombay' (folio 11).

Dates: 1832, 1899.

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