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'Green days in forests. Some recollections and reflections of a timber merchant' by James Begg.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15931
Scope and Contents

The author, James Begg, belonged to a Glasgow firm of saw millers.

Reproduced from typescript with a few manuscript corrections.

Dates: [Circa 1944.]

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.

Literary papers of Wendy Wood.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8197
Scope and Contents

Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of autobiographical work and stories.

Dates: circa 1930-1980.

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.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of autobiographical work of Naomi Mitchison, "Small Talk" (1973).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5942
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescripts of three autobiographical articles.

Dates: 1973.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "You May Well Ask".

 File
Identifier: Acc.7219
Scope and Contents

Being a volume of autobiography covering the years 1918-1940.

Dates: 1978.

Microfilm of typescript copy of 'Recollections of a long and busy life' by George Smith.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.442
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Typescript copy of chapters i-xv (MS.23191);

Typescript copy of chapters xvi-xxvi (MS.23192).

Dates: 1895.

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 Andrew B Macdonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5204
Scope and Contents

Including typescript of his autobiography, lectures, radio scripts, and correspondence.

Dates: 1927-1964 and undated.

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 George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26941-26972
Scope and Contents

George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.

Dates: 1951-1970, undated.

Papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9243
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, autobiography articles, essays and reviews.

Dates: 1965-1985.

Papers of Sir Hugh McPherson (1870-1960) and his son Duncan.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19611-19618
Scope and Contents

From 1891 to 1925, Sir Hugh was in the Indian Civil Service, first in Bengal and from 1912 in Bihar and Orissa. The papers concern his career but also reflect his interest in walking and climbing in the Himalayas, an interest shared by his son.

Dates: 1886-1944, undated.

Papers of the Very Reverend A Nevile Davidson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7968
Scope and Contents

Including newspapers cuttings, 1935-1945, and the typescript of Davidson`s autobiography, 1977.

Dates: 1935-1945, 1977.

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Names
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 3
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 3
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Begg, James, fl. 1890-1944 (timber merchant of Glasgow) 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2