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13 drawings by Edward Blore for Sir James Hall`s "Essay on the Origin, History, and Principles of Gothic Architecture" (1813).

 File
Identifier: Acc.12083
Scope and Contents

Includes a collection of proof engravings for the book and some drawings, notes and papers of Sir James Hall.

Dates: 1809-1812.

115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10488
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.

Dates: 1934-1978.

Academic and literary papers, including typescripts, drafts and correspondence, of Angus Calder.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9851/1-66
Scope and Contents

Concerning his doctoral thesis, books and broadcasts, his involvement in East African literature, his editorship of 'Journal of Commonwealth literature' and convenorship of the Scottish Poetry Library.

Includes lectures notes, drafts, histories, correspondence and interviews.

Dates: 1960-1988.

Artist`s sketches and proofs of Colin Wilson.

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Identifier: Acc.9157
Scope and Contents

Concerning a proposed official set of postage stamps to mark the establishment of a Scottish Assembly.

Dates: 1979.

Author`s corrected proofs of George MacDonald, "A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul" (1880).

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Identifier: Acc.8823
Scope and Contents

With associated letter, 1930, of Grevillle MacDonald to Gilbert Rae.

Dates: 1880-1930.

Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20443
Scope and Contents

The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.

Dates: 1868.

Corrected proofs of John Bellany and Alan Bold, "Homage to MacDiarmid".

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Identifier: Acc.9156
Scope and Contents

With lithographic plates, and manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem.

Dates: circa 1986.

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Proofs. printed matter 113
Typescripts. 75
Correspondence. 74
Manuscripts. 65
Proofs. Printed matter. 64
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Poetry. 52
Notes. 40
Drafts. Documents. 37
Letters. Correspondence. 34
Novels. 32
Articles. 26
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 20
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 16
Photographs. 16
Page proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 15
Illustrations. Layout features. 14
Microfilms. 13
Notebooks. 13
Biographies. 12
Annotations. 11
Short stories. 11
Essays. 10
Histories. 10
Plays. 9
Reviews. Document genre 9
Copies. Derivative objects. 8
Drawings. Visual works. 8
Proofs. printed matter. 8
Translations. Documents. 6
Fragments. 5
Minutes. Administrative records. 5
Pamphlets. 5
Publications. 5
Research notes 5
Research notes. 5
Speeches. Documents. 5
Accounts. 4
Audiocassettes. 4
Autobiographies. 4
Criticism. 4
Diaries. 4
Financial records. 4
Legal documents. 4
Lists. 4
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 4
Memoirs. 4
Memorandums. 4
Personal papers. 4
Photocopies. 4
Prefaces. 4
Printed materials. Object genre. 4
Scripts. Documents. 4
Sketches 4
Slides. Photographs. 4
Songs. Musical compositions. 4
Books 3
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 3
Documents. 3
Engravings. Prints. 3
Lectures. 3
Literature (writings). 3
Minute books. 3
Page proofs. Proofs (printed matter) 3
Postcards. 3
Publishers and publishing. 3
Reports. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 3
Administrative records. 2
Albums. 2
Caricatures. 2
Cashbooks. 2
Christmas cards. 2
Dictionaries. 2
Drafts. Documents 2
Emails. 2
Family papers. 2
Genealogies. 2
Inscriptions. 2
Instructions. Document genre. 2
Interleaves. 2
Inventories. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Lecture notes. 2
Magazines. periodicals. 2
Musical compositions. 2
Offprints. 2
Parliamentary papers. 2
Posters. 2
Prints. Visual works 2
Prints. Visual works. 2
Professional papers. 2
Radio scripts. 2
Scripts. Documents 2
Sketches. 2
Specimens. 2
Transcripts 2
Transcripts. 2
Travel journals. 2
Worksheets. 2
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Language
English 146
Undetermined 64
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 8
Multiple languages 3
French 2
 
Names
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 12
Gray, Alasdair (author) 9
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 4
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 4
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 4
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Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 3
Akros, literary magazine 3
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 3
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 3
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 3
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 2
Dunlop, William, playwright, b 1951 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 2
Johnstone, Doug, author, b 1970 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 2
MacKenzie, Donald, illustrator, fl 1977 2
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 2
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 2
Saltire Society 2
Scott, Paul Henderson, author, b 1920 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Thomson, Derick Smith, Emeritus Professor of Celtic, University of Glasgow, 1921-2012 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Aitken, James, correspondent of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, fl 1839: recipient 1
Aitken, Margaret Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, d 1932 1
Akros Publications 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Arthur, Sir George Compton Archibald, 3rd Baronet, Private Secretary to Earl Kitchener, 1860-1946 1
Behrens, Reinhard, artist, b 1951. 1
Bellany, John (artist) 1
Bellany, John, artist, b 1942 1
Blore, Edward (architect) 1
Bottrall, Ronald, poet, 1906-1989 1
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 1
Campbell, John Lorne, scholar of Scottish Gaelic folklore, 1906-1996 1
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Claire, Regi, author, b. 1962 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Cunningham, Ian Campbell, Keeper of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, b 1938 1
Cunningham, Peter, author, 1816-1869 1
Daiches, David, literary critic and scholar, 1912-2005 1
Davenport, John, writer, fl 1954-1957 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Douglas, George Norman, travel writer, 1868-1952 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Drummond, Andrew Alastair Landale, Minister of Eadie, Alva, d 1966 1
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, poet, 1585-1649 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Durrell, Lawrence George, novelist and poet, 1912-1990 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Empson, Sir William, Knight, poet and literary critic, 1906-1984 1
Ewen, Cecil Henry L'Estrange, author, b 1877 1
Ferguson, William, Reader Emeritus in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, b 1924 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980: recipient 1
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 1
Galliard Publishing Ltd 1
Garden, Mary, musician, 1874-1967 1
Gillies, Valerie, poet, née Simmons, b 1948 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008: recipient 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 1
Graham, family, Earls of Menteith 1
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Haig, Dorothy Maud, wife of 1st Earl Haig, née Vivian, d 1939 1
Hall, Sir James, 4th Baronet, geologist and chemist, 1761-1832 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Harvie-Brown, John Alexander, naturalist, 1844–1916 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994: recipient 1
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Hess, Rudolf Walter Richard, deputy of Adolf Hitler, 1894-1987 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Historical Manuscripts Commission 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 1
Jardine, Sir William, 7th Baronet, of Applegirth, naturalist, 1800-1874 1
Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
John Murray (publishers, London) 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Kinglake, Alexander William, historian, 1809-1891 1
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