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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 3 Collections and/or Records:

Four letters, 1935-1936, of or concerning C M Grieve to R D McIntyre, with other papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9902
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1935-1945.

Letters to Maurice Lindsay from various literary figures.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11808
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include:

C M Grieve, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid

Neil M Gunn

Norman MacCaig

Iain Crichton Smith

Sydney Goodsir Smith

Douglas Young

Dates: 1944-1999 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1946-1975.