Letters. Correspondence.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
15 letters of Douglas Young to R E Muirhead.
With a copy of a petition on behalf of Douglas Young.
23 letters to Hamish Henderson from correspondents including Ewan MacColl and Douglas Young.
With corrected typescript of Henderson`s translation of Antonio Gramsci`s "Lettere dal Carcere".
Five letters to Hamish Henderson, one each of David Gascoyne and Douglas Young and three of Robert Garioch.
Mostly concerning Henderson`s "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica".
Four letters, 1935-1936, of or concerning C M Grieve to R D McIntyre, with other papers.
Includes:
Edinburgh University student rectorial broadsheet "Students` Front" (1936)
14 letters and other papers, 1942-1945, of or concerning Douglas Young
copy, undated, of "A Ballad for Douglas Young", attributed to Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Letter of Douglas Young to Roland Muirhead thanking him for forwarding a manuscript with a forward by Naomi Mitchison.
Letter of Sorley MacLean to Douglas Young discussing mutual acquaintances.
Letter of Sorley Maclean to Douglas Young, originally with an enclosure of poems.
Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.
The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).
Letters to Maurice Lindsay from various literary figures.
Correspondents include:
C M Grieve, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid
Neil M Gunn
Norman MacCaig
Iain Crichton Smith
Sydney Goodsir Smith
Douglas Young
Papers of David D Murison.
Comprising:
1. letter, 1942, of Douglas Young to David D Murison
2. letter, 1967, of C M Grieve to Murison
3. typescript of a poem, early 20th century, of Ronald Campbell Macfie
4. collection of letters, 19th century.
Papers of Hamish Henderson
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".
Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.
Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.
Photocopies of 20 letters to Francis George Scott.
On musical and literary matters.
Correspondents include C M Grieve, Edwin Muir, and Douglas Young.
Six letters to D H McNeill, from C M Grieve, Andrew Dewar Gibb, Neil Gunn, William Power, Douglas Young, and R B Cunninghame Graham.
Mostly concerning McNeill`s published works.
With two letters, 1939, 1964, to Marian McNeill, from C M Grieve and Augusta Lamont, and a signed photograph of R B Cunninghame Graham.
Two typescript letters of Douglas Young to Arthur J Beattie.
Mainly concerning Young`s "The Puddocks".