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Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

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Cover proofs, 2000-2001, of Ian Rankin’s novel anthologies. Folios 1-7.

'Rebus: The St Leonard's Years' (Folios 1-3) 'The Jack Harvey Novels' (Folios 4-7)

Includes letter from Susan Lamb of Orion Publishing Group Ltd regarding the jack Harvey cover proofs. (Folio 4)

Advertisement, 2001, for an anthology of Ian Rankin's Rebus novels, 'Three Great Novels'. Folios 8-10.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Corrected galley proof of the short story, 'The Dead Harlot'. (Folio l.) This was published in ‘New tales of horror by eminent authors’ (London, 1935), pages l44-148, but had already appeared in ‘Scottish Nation’, volume 2, number 7 (1923), page 8, under the title 'In the fulness of time’.(ii) Newspaper cuttings and galley proof of the story 'A' body's lassie'. (Folio 3.) The cuttings from the ‘Scots Observer’, 14 May 1927, have...

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Don Paterson's literary papers consist mainly of notebooks and poetry files in which his meticulous planning, working and reworking of the poems is evident. The notebooks are rarely only poetry and frequently contain doodles, bars of music and set lists relating to Lammas, 'mind-maps', packing lists and other such memory-aids, and lengthy notes often relating to his teaching activities.