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Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.

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Papers of Michael Moncrieff Staurt, CIE OBE concerning his career in India and East Pakistan, 1927-1950, and his research into the Scottish Nabobs and other matters concerning the history of India, circa 1950-1986.

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In 1972 and following his move to Gairloch in 1976, Sydney Durward Tremayne was working on an autobiography which survives in several versions. It describes his childhood, his career in journalism, and his stormy relationship with his father; it also indicates the circumstances in which he wrote some of his poems.

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Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

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Titles include: 'On the eve of freedom'; 'Partition'; and 'Dispensing with justice'.

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Hugh MacDiarmid originally submitted the text to a publisher in 1939 but was obliged to reduce its length very considerably. For his accounts of this, see his manuscript introduction (MS.27036, folio l, and what follows) and his prefaces to the editions of 1943 and 1972.

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As well as the text as published, it includes part of two chapters which were excised: 'The Condition of Scotland today' (folio 680) and 'My Best Friends' (folio 719). Much of the latter was later published in ‘Francis George Scott: an essay’ (Edinburgh, 1955). The versos of folios 323-400 passim have been used to compile an index.

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Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Scope and Contents The proofs want page 353, all illustrations and maps.The chapter headings are : chapter I : "Family history and childhood 1817-1833";chapter II : "Legal studies and interludes 1834-1839";chapter III : "Overland journey to Constantinople 1839";chapter IV : "Journey through Asia Minor 1839";chapter V : "1839 through Syria";chapter VI : "Syria and Palestine 1840";chapter VII : "Aleppo to Mosul...

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The chapter headings are :

chapter I : "Letters from Baghdad and Persia 1840-42";

chapter II : "Western Turkey, and Sir Stratford Canning 1842";

chapter III : "Politics and society in Constantinople 1842-45";

chapter IV : "Politics and society in Constantinople - continued. 1843-1845";

chapter V : "Constantinople - Mission to Albania 1843-45".

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References have been made from the loose leaf to the place where it was found and vice versa.

Included is a printed memoir of Colonel Drinkwater (folio 1).

Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1951-1955, between William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn and various publishers relating to the publication of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’. The correspondence has been arranged alphabetically by publisher, and by date under each publisher. ‘The British Journal of Medical Psychology’.Letter, 1951, of John D Sutherland, Editor of the ‘The British Journal of Medical Psychology’, to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn concerning permission...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Copies of letters in MS.3381. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of a letter of John Leyden, 1808, answering a charge of insolence brought against him as Magistrate of the Twenty-four Parganas by Sir William Burroughs, a Judge of the Supreme Court, 'transcribed from the original sent by Dr. Leyden to Mrs. Raffles'. See M R Dobie, 'Dr. John Leyden and Sir William Burroughs', in ‘Bengal Past and Present’, volume lii, part ii (1936). (Folio 81.)...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...

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Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: William Ewart Gladstone published many books, pamphlets and articles throughout his political career. Some of these were published by John Murray and the manuscripts and proofs here relate to some of those publications. The manuscripts relate to the works of Gladstone on the Church, foreign politics and domestic political issues. In addition, there is also a chapter of an autobiography and the manuscript of a review entitled 'Memoir of John Murray'. The manuscripts have been revised and...

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Comprising:

original manuscript and corrected typescript of "Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (Edinburgh, 1966); manuscript and broadcast scripts of eight radio plays and dramatisations, 1962-1968; 16 letters, 1959-1968, to Ian S Munro, correspondents including C M Grieve and Willa Muir.

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The autobiography describes George Scott-Moncrieff's childhood and life as a writer in London and Scotland, his marriage, and family life up to his departure from Eigg in 1950 after the death of his first wife.

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In 1972 and following his move to Gairloch in 1976, Sydney Durward Tremayne was working on an autobiography which survives in several versions. It describes his childhood, his career in journalism, and his stormy relationship with his father; it also indicates the circumstances in which he wrote some of his poems.