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Joe Corrie wrote numerous stories and articles for newspapers; much of his early work (including the novel ‘Black raw’, 1928) was published in ‘Forward’. MSS.26553-26559 are volumes of cuttings, arranged by Corrie, which contain his own work, reviews of his plays, and articles about him.

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Joe Corrie wrote numerous stories and articles for newspapers; much of his early work (including the novel ‘Black raw’, 1928) was published in ‘Forward’. MSS.26553-26559 are volumes of cuttings, arranged by Corrie, which contain his own work, reviews of his plays, and articles about him.

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Joe Corrie wrote numerous stories and articles for newspapers; much of his early work (including the novel ‘Black raw’, 1928) was published in ‘Forward’. MSS.26553-26559 are volumes of cuttings, arranged by Corrie, which contain his own work, reviews of his plays, and articles about him.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...

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Robert Crawford, who was a miner in Ayrshire and later in Stirlingshire, published three collections of poems and also wrote philosophical essays.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...

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Elizabeth Haldane seems to have preserved most of the letters which her brother, Richard Burdon Haldane, wrote to her. Although fewer in number, they are often fuller and more interesting than those to his mother. Haldane, on the other hand, kept very few of his sister's letters; they have been incorporated in the main series of his correspondence (MSS.5901-5926).

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There are also French newspapers of the time of the siege of Paris, 1871, in which the 3rd Earl of Minto and the Countess were involved, and reviews of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot's literary works, particularly ‘The life of George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen’, 2 volumes (London, 1911), and ‘The traditions of British Statesmanship’ (London, 1918).

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There are also French newspapers of the time of the siege of Paris, 1871, in which the 3rd Earl of Minto and the Countess were involved, and reviews of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot's literary works, particularly ‘The life of George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen’, 2 volumes (London, 1911), and ‘The traditions of British Statesmanship’ (London, 1918).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...

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The notebook includes drafts of text and notes mostly on themes and people in history. The first entry is a draft of a book review by Mackenzie for the ‘Times Literary Supplement’ of ‘The Normans in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1954), by Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie.

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The notebook includes various drafts of articles, reviews and letters arranged tête-bêche.

Scope and Contents The notebook contains drafts of poems (passim); two essays on Robert Burns (folios 2, 38 verso); the preface to Jan Lukas, ‘Light and shade’, 1947 (folio 13); 'Robert Henryson' (folio 15) and ‘A note on Franz Kafka' (folio 42), both of which were published in Edwin Muir's ‘Essays on literature and society, 1949; 'Father and son' (folio 54), published in ‘The Listener’ xxxvii (1947), page 680; review of Frantisek Halas, ‘Old women’, 1948 (folio 65); article on Hugh Kingsmill, ‘The fall’,...

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The notebook contains a draft for the broadcast 'Revisiting Orkney' (folio 1); 'The ballads' published in ‘The New Statesman’, 53 (1957), pages 174-175 (folio 39 verso); reviews of work by Christopher Logue, C A Trypanis and Anna Kavan (folios 55, 96 verso); a translation from Kafka (folio 70 verso); and articles on 'Story and novel' (folio 30), Christopher Logue (folio 53), contemporary poetry (folio 61), ballads (folios 67, 90 verso) and 'The thirties' (folio 87 verso).

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In many of the notebooks, leaves left blank after the original use were reused later and most are written on the rectors only, the versos being used for additions and corrections, and occasionally for other unrelated writings and calculations. A few papers are in French.

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The notebooks include drafts of speeches, articles, letters, and also miscellaneous jottings. The final versions of some of these texts are included in the series MSS.9194-9197. Where this association is clear the reference has been provided.

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These notebooks chart George Campbell Hay's return to regular poetic activity. They contain drafts of most of the poems he composed from circa 1975 to 1983, as well as some book reviews, translations and linguistic notes.

Scope and Contents The volume also contains material accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.The papers include :Copies of four letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1824, 1829 (folios 15-22);Information regarding Jonathan Swift supplied by Irish correspondents (folios 33, 70);Maria Edgeworth’s note of the tour which she took with Scott in August 1825 (folio 50);Thomas Moore’s journal, in his hand, of his visit to Abbotsford in 1825, used by Lockhart in his ‘Life...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) ‘Are proper names connotative?’ an essay, [circa 1898] of John Purves (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of an essay, ‘A note on Shakespeare's references to Africa’ written by Purves for the Shakespeare Tercentenary in 1916 and apparently unpublished, with notes on other literary references to Africa (folio 8) (iii) A catalogue, [circa 1916], of John Milton's works (folios 69); (iv) Extracts, [circa 1916], from the works of Horace (folio 76); (v) Extracts from a...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...

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Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.