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Correspondents include Willa Muir, Iain Crichton Smith and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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...

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Letter of Willa Muir to Eric Linklater, 24 January 1968, on her literary memoir `Belonging`.

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Includes related family letters and photographs.

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Concerning literary and personal matters.

With five letters of C M Grieve, 28 letters of Edwin Muir, and 12 letters of Willa Muir.

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Includes typescript of a novel and manuscript journal of Willa Muir.

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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".

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Includes 52 letters of George Mackay Brown.

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With 28 letters of Edwin Muir, nine of Willa Muir, and 38 of William Soutar, mostly concerning literary matters.

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On literary and personal matters.

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Mentioning Muir`s literary work.