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 11 Collections and/or Records:
168 letters to George Mackay Brown.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4847
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Willa Muir, Iain Crichton Smith and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Dates:
1947-1969.
168 letters to George Mackay Brown from various correspondents including Willa Muir, Iain Crichton Smith and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.141- is now Acc.4847.
Dates:
1947-1969.
Correspondence, photographs and papers, circa 1920-1993, of and relating to Edwin and Willa Muir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13226
Scope and Contents
This collection was given to the Library from one of Edwin Muir`s great-nephews and copyright-holders. The core of the collection is a substantial file of letters from both the Muirs to Edwin’s sister Lizzie, and later, to her daughters, dating from 1921-1970. This is family rather than literary correspondence, and gives an insight into the Muirs’ peripatetic lives - often financially difficult but always determinedly creative. The additional papers, including incoming correspondence and...
Dates:
1920-1993.
Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11590
Scope and Contents
Includes related family letters and photographs.
Dates:
1948-1970 and undated.
Letters to William Montgomerie.
File
Identifier: Acc.8240
Scope and Contents
Concerning literary and personal matters.
With five letters of C M Grieve, 28 letters of Edwin Muir, and 12 letters of Willa Muir.
Dates:
1932-1972.
Papers of Hamish Henderson
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10788
Scope and Contents
Includes original draft of the introduction to edition of Antonio Gramsci, "Letter dal Carcere", and correspondence, including seven letters of Willa Muir, on ballads, and a letter of Douglas Young, discussing Henderson`s "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica".
Dates:
1939-1966.
Photocopies of letters to William Montgomerie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6855
Scope and Contents
With 28 letters of Edwin Muir, nine of Willa Muir, and 38 of William Soutar, mostly concerning literary matters.
Dates:
1932-1969.
Six letters to Norman MacCaig, two of Edwin Muir, and one each of C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Willa Muir and Sean O`Casey.
File
Identifier: Acc.6598
Scope and Contents
On literary and personal matters.
Dates:
1952-1966.
Twenty letters of Willa Muir to George Mackay Brown.
Series
Identifier: Dep.163- is now Acc.5042.
Dates:
1969-1970.
Two letters of Willa Muir to Margaret Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.8933
Scope and Contents
Mentioning Muir`s literary work.
Dates:
1964-1965.