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Papers of Muriel Spark.
Includes research material, manuscript and typescript of the novel, "Aiding and Abetting", manuscripts of short stories, and correspondence files, 1997-2000.
Papers of Naomi Mitchison and her family.
Including:
1. letter, undated, of Naomi Mitchison and three letters, undated, of J B S Haldane to Elizabeth S Haldane
2. letter, 1914, of an Oxford suffragette to Lord Haldane
3. letters, 1939-1957 and undated, of Gordon Bottomley, Neil Gunn, and J Leslie Mitchell to Naomi Mitchison
4. typescripts of short story, undated, of Naomi Mitchison, "Other Laws for the People", and paper, undated, on civilisation in Scotland, also by Mitchison.
Papers of Nigel Tranter.
Indcludes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, architectural notes and drawings and correspondence.
Papers of Richard J McLeish.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems and short stories, and also two letters of Neil Gunn, on literary matters.
Papers of Robert Kemp.
Including diaires, accounts, photographs and typesripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries.
With letters of, among others, James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie.
Papers of Robert Kemp, including typescripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries; correspondence, including letters from James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie; diaries, accounts, press cuttings and photographs.
Papers of Stanley Cursiter.
Including sketch books, typescripts of short stories, typescript and printed articles, and correspondence.
Papers of the "Edinburgh Review".
Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of articles, short stories, poems and reviews, with associated correspondence.
Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Papers of Wendy Wood.
Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.
Photocopies of cards, acrostics, poems and stories of George Mackay Brown, sent as birthday greetings to Alan, son of Peter and Betty Grant; with some birthday acrostics to the parents.
Seven notebooks and a manuscript of Morley Jamieson.
Containing drafts of a memoir and associated short story.
Stories written by William Hunter, of Oban, whilst being held as a prisoner of war in Germany during the Second World War.
Hunter was interned in a number of different camps for officers, including Oflag VII C, Oflag IX A/Z and Oflag VIB. Whilst the stories were written during his internment, they do not describe his experiences during that time.
Prior to the Second World War, Hunter had lived in Ferozepur and Allahabad, India before moving to Oban around 1936, which is reflected in his stories.
Ten literary notebooks of Morley Jamieson.
Including drafts of poems and short stories.
The Melrosian Annual, 1888
Transcriptions from Irish manuscripts into Roman script made by Dr Donald Smith.
Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.
Includes:
"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934
letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell
verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.
Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).
With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.
Typescript of Anne Valentine, "The Delegation", a short story.
Typescript, undated, of an autobiographical work of Margaret Mackenzie Scott, "Childhood of a Nobody", with other papers.
Including typescripts of a short story, undated, and articles, 1923-1940.
Typescripts of 'Gentlemen of the west' and five short stories for 'Lean tales', by Agnes Owens.
Typescripts of Agnes Owens for her novel 'Gentlemen of the west' (Polygon, 1984), and for several of the short stories which formed her section of 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985).
Typescripts of literary works by Tom Hanlin (1907-1953).
Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.
Typescripts of novellas, short stories and plays of Agnes Owens.
This collection contains typescripts of the novellas and short stories of Agnes Owens, including many of the stories which formed part of 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985) and 'People like that' (Bloomsbury, 1996). Several short stories present in this collection were only published for the first time in 'The complete short stories' (Polygon, 2008).
Many of the typescripts have annotations and corrections in the hands of Agnes Owens, Alasdair Gray and others.