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11 letters of George Mackay Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5760
Scope and Contents

With typescripts of his "Lifeboat and Other Poems".

Dates: 1970-1971.

20 notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10461
Scope and Contents

Literary and personal notes and the typescript of "Yet it shall be Tempest Tost", an account of an experiment with mescalin during the 1960s.

Dates: 1977-1990 and undated.

21 letters of Sir Henry Holland to his father, Peter Holland.

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Identifier: Acc.7515
Scope and Contents

On personal, social and academic matters.

With typescripts of the letters.

Dates: 1810-1811.

23 letters to Hamish Henderson from correspondents including Ewan MacColl and Douglas Young.

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Identifier: Acc.10528
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With corrected typescript of Henderson`s translation of Antonio Gramsci`s "Lettere dal Carcere".

Dates: 1950-1986.

25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6831
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Porpoise Press.

With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.

Dates: 1925.

43 letters of William Soutar to the Reverend David Stevens.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7123
Scope and Contents

On personal and literary matters.

With associated photographs, typescripts, and printed items.

Dates: 1934-1943.

Adaptation of ‘Philotus’, by the playwright Jack Ronder (born 1924), an anonymous play in Scots verse originally published in 1603.

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Identifier: MS.26488
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The adaptation is a typescript of the 17th century text, with manuscript alterations and stage directions by Jack Ronder.

Dates: [Circa 1953.]

Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10651
Scope and Contents

Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.

Dates: circa 1950-1984.

Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents

William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.

Dates: 1778-1961, undated.

Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.

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Identifier: MS.16483
Scope and Contents

Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.

Dates: [1949], [1949, or after.]

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Manuscripts. 320
Poetry. 239
Correspondence. 238
Letters. Correspondence. 168
Drafts. Documents. 129
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Articles. 116
Plays. 112
Notes. 105
Novels. 101
Photographs. 98
Copies. Derivative objects. 83
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 77
Notebooks. 69
Short stories. 68
Diaries. 66
Photocopies. 59
Speeches. Documents. 52
Biographies. 49
Histories. 46
Proofs. printed matter 44
Memoirs. 41
Essays. 37
Autobiographies. 34
Lectures. 31
Reviews. Document genre 31
Transcripts 26
Translations. Documents. 25
Proofs. Printed matter. 23
Genealogies. 20
Annotations. 19
Financial records. 19
Microfilms. 19
Fiction. 18
Memorandums. 18
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Transcripts. 18
Illustrations. Layout features. 17
Publications. 17
Accounts. 15
Lists. 15
Minutes. Administrative records. 15
Reports 15
Research notes 15
Reviews. Document genre. 15
Literature (writings). 12
Printed materials. Object genre. 12
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Pamphlets. 11
Professional papers. 11
Travel journals 11
Administrative records. 10
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 10
Personal papers. 10
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 10
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Books 9
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Bibliographies. 8
Criticism. 8
Instructional materials. 8
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Reports. 8
Research notes. 8
Stats. Copies. 8
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Travel journals. 8
Audiocassettes. 7
Catalogues. 7
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 7
Extracts. 7
Fragments. 7
Legal documents. 7
Magazines. periodicals. 7
Maps. Cartographic materials. 7
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Piobaireachd. Great Highland Bagpipe music. 7
Portraits. 7
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 6
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India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 6
Offprints. 6
Photograph albums. 6
Postcards. 6
Second World War (1939-1945). 6
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Commentaries. 5
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 5
Interviews. 5
Librettos. Documents for music. 5
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Language
English 790
Undetermined 201
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Names
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 33
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 15
Gray, Alasdair (author) 14
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 13
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 12
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Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 12
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 10
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 9
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 9
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 9
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 8
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 8
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 7
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 7
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 7
Soutar, William (poet) 7
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 6
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 6
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 6
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 5
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 5
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 5
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 5
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 5
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 5
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 5
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 5
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 5
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 4
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 4
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 4
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 4
National Library of Scotland 4
Purves, David, poet and playwright, b 1924 4
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 4
Akros, literary magazine 3
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 3
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 3
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 3
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 3
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 3
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 3
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 3
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 3
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 3
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 3
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 3
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 3
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 3
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 3
Roy, James Alexander, Professor of English, Queen's University, Kingston, 1884-1973 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Scottish National Party 3
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 3
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 3
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 3
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 2
Begg, James, fl. 1890-1944 (timber merchant of Glasgow) 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 2
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 2
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 2
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Craigen, James Mark, politician and author, b 1938 2
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 2
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Downie, Anne, playwright, b 1939 2
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 2
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 2
Edinburgh International Festival 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 2
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 2
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 2
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 2
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Law, Alexander, HM Inspector of Schools, 1903-1995 2
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