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Letters. Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

11 letters of George Mackay Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5760
Scope and Contents

With typescripts of his "Lifeboat and Other Poems".

Dates: 1970-1971.

162 letters of George Mackay Brown to Jenny Robertson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12679
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters, 1981, to Robertson`s daughter Aileen, three incomplete letters and a copy of a poem "To George" by the donor.

Dates: 1977-1996.

235 letters to Alan Bold.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10374
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: George Mackay Brown, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean and Muriel Spark.

Dates: 1964-1990.

Four letters and two postcards of George Mackay Brown and six letters of George Davie concerning his wife, the writer Elspeth Davie, to Valentina Poggi.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12814
Scope and Contents

Includes a covering letter from the recipient of these letters and cards, Valentina Poggi.

Dates: 1985-1997, 2007.

Letter of George Mackay Brown.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11329
Scope and Contents

Concerns a story of a shipwreck on North Ronaldsay.

Dates: 1992.

Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13344
Scope and Contents

Letters, 1986-1994, of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Grawford; with manuscript and typescript poems and acrostics, 1986-1995; uncorrected typescript, 1986, of "The Ballad of the Golden Bird"; sketchbook, 1985, of Kenna Crawford containing manuscript poem of George Mackay Brown.

Dates: 1986-1995.

Letters of Hamish Henderson, Ian Hamilton Finlay and George Mackay Brown to Maurice Fleming.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14018
Scope and Contents

Comprising two letters (1957, 1958) of Hamish Henderson; two letters (1965, ?1966) of Ian Hamilton Finlay; one letter (1966) of George Mackay Brown.

Dates: 1957-1966.

Two letters of George Mackay Brown to John Wilson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14426
Scope and Contents

On life at Moray House, and on Brown's poetry.

Dates: 1960-1961.