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The correspondence is almost exclusively exchanges of e-mail between Joyce Gunn Cairns and individuals from various walks of life whom Cairns came to know through having had them sit for portrait drawings; many of the correspondents are literary figures.

Scope and Contents Since 2000, Don Paterson has done much of his writing directly onto his Apple Mac (and subsequent models), and his digital archive appears to contain most of his work – in diverse fields - back to that point. The development of the poems are charted through multiple drafts as he hones a work down to the essence. The prose, some of which seems to form the raw material for his collections of aphorism, is occasionally written at such speed that there is no attempt to correct typos or even spell...

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Letters, 1977-2014, of David Black to James Greene; with some typescript poems of David Black and a paste-up of an unpublished collection of his poetry edited by James Greene.

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The papers relate to `Gone Again` (London: Faber and Faber, 2013) and `The Dead Beat` (London: Faber and Faber, 2014).

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Assorted records created by National Collective relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, and related papers of co-founder Ross Colquhoun.

Includes display items used during the campaigns and the touring 'Yestival' exhibition; papers relating to the Vitol controversy; and photographs of individuals and events associated with National Collective.

Scope and Contents Like many historical novelists, Margaret Elphinstone carries out extensive research on the subjects on which she plans to write. These papers demonstrate that she pursues her research to academic levels and beyond: corresponding with, and interviewing, experts in very specialised fields; reading widely; attending conferences and courses and - to some extent - trying to experience for herself what her characters’ lives would ‘feel’ like. The file headings alone indicate the depth and breadth...