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Poetry.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10488
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.

Dates: 1934-1978.

118 letters to James K Annand.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9624
Scope and Contents

Concerning literary and personal matters, with associated manuscripts of poems.

Correspondents include: Robert Garioch, Hugh MacDiarmid and Albert D Mackie.

Dates: 1926-1985.

Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10095
Scope and Contents

Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.

Dates: 1962.

Corrected proofs of John Bellany and Alan Bold, "Homage to MacDiarmid".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9156
Scope and Contents

With lithographic plates, and manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem.

Dates: circa 1986.

Letters of and concerning C M Grieve to Ernest Brooks and Barbara Niven.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12074
Scope and Contents

Includes typescript of "Mature Art".

Dates: 1936-1983.

Literary correspondence of Raymond Vettese.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12500
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of J K Annand, H B Cruickshank, C M Grieve, Malcolm 'Callum' Macdonald and Trevor Royle, and manuscripts and typescripts of poems.

Dates: 1968-2000.

Manuscript drafts of 37 poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh MacDiarmid, and of parts of a larger work probably related to 'Impavidi Progrediamur'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11451
Scope and Contents Some of the poems are apparently unpublished, but, where possible, references have been given to page numbers of the Complete Poems edited by Michael Grieve and W R Aitken, (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994). [CP].Manuscripts of individual poems:‘Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone’, undated [CP 874, 1069](A Point in Time; Wedding of the Winds; Composition (1934); Knight; of William Johnstone’s Art; Ode to the North Wind).‘To my friend the...
Dates: Circa 1920-1970.

Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, collected for a proposed American edition of his selected poems.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12058
Scope and Contents A collection of manuscripts, typescripts and printed versions of poems that were collected by Christopher Murray Grieve (‘Hugh MacDiarmid’) for a proposed edition of his selected poems for the Colt Press in 1941.This description follows the proposed contents list, and includes the other poems that it seems were not intended for the published edition.‘Contents’.[Dedication].‘Preface: Introducing Hugh MacDiarmid’. (Not present).‘Two...
Dates: Circa 1941.

Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers of Duncan Glen, including research materials relating to Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10094/1-65
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and essays, and includes critical work on Hugh MacDiamrid.

Dates: 1941-1989.

Papers of and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10173- is now MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1927-1978.

Papers of David D Murison.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4809
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1800-1967.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7147
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, essays, bibliographies and other literary work.

With Duncan Glen, "Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance", and poems of, and essays concerning, Hugh Macdiarmid.

Dates: 1962-1977.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11848
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Glen`s poetry, critical works on Hugh MacDiarmid, genealogy of the Glen family and Akros publications, including editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1958-1998.

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.

Two letters of Hugh MacDiarmid to T J Williams and Joyce Williams.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14427
Scope and Contents

On the Breton nationalist Andre Geffroy and MacDiarmid's efforts to establish a Scottish Committee.

A signed copy of "A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle" (Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, 1956) for Joyce Williams is also included.

Dates: 1952-1956.

Worksheets and corrected proofs of Hugh MacDiarmid, "On a Raised Beach".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9246
Scope and Contents

With drawings by Reinhard Behrens.

Dates: 1985.