Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959
Person
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
29 letters of C M Grieve to Mr and Mrs James Dunlop.
File
Identifier: Acc.9022
Scope and Contents
With letter, 1950, of Edwin Muir to Andrew Letters.
Dates:
1948-1978.
Audio recordings of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.
Series
Identifier: MSS.50252-50253
Dates:
[1955-1956].
Copies of Edwin Muir, "First Poems" (1925) and "Chorus of the Newly Dead" (1926), the former inscribed by Muir to John and Dorothy Holms.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9645
Scope and Contents
Both annotated by Beatrix Holms
Dates:
circa 1925-1926.
Corrected typescript of "Edwin and Willa Muir. Chapters of Autobiography" by Catriona and Lumír Soukup.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12007
Dates:
Last quarter of 20th century.
Correspondence, photographs and papers, circa 1920-1993, of and relating to Edwin and Willa Muir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13226
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...
Dates:
1920-1993.
Letter of Edwin Muir to A J McGeoch.
File
Identifier: Acc.4764
Scope and Contents
With transcript.
Dates:
1945.
Letter of Edwin Muir to A J McGeoch, with transcript.
Item
Identifier: Dep.134- is now Acc.4764.
Dates:
1945.
Letters to William Montgomerie.
File
Identifier: Acc.8240
Scope and Contents
Concerning literary and personal matters.
With five letters of C M Grieve, 28 letters of Edwin Muir, and 12 letters of Willa Muir.
Dates:
1932-1972.
Manuscript draft of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8443
Dates:
1983.
Nine letters to James D Young, including two of Hugh MacDiarmid and three of Edwin Muir.
File
Identifier: Acc.10465
Scope and Contents
Mostly on literary matters.
Dates:
1950-1972.
Open reel audio recording of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University., [1955-1956].
Item
Identifier: MS.50252
Open reel audio recording of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University., [1955-1956].
Item
Identifier: MS.50253
Papers of Ethel Ross concerning Willa and Edwin Muir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12592
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript of a novel and manuscript journal of Willa Muir.
Dates:
1939-1976.
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.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including notebooks, typescripts of novels and autobiographical work, and letters from various correspondents, including six from C M Grieve and four from Edwin Muir.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.239
Dates:
1926-1975.
Photocopies of 20 letters to Francis George Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.7648
Scope and Contents
On musical and literary matters.
Correspondents include C M Grieve, Edwin Muir, and Douglas Young.
Dates:
1930-1957.
Photocopies of correspondence of and concerning Edwin and Willa Muir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10557
Scope and Contents
Includes 52 letters of George Mackay Brown.
Dates:
1939-1976.
Photocopies of letters to William Montgomerie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6855
Scope and Contents
With 28 letters of Edwin Muir, nine of Willa Muir, and 38 of William Soutar, mostly concerning literary matters.
Dates:
1932-1969.
Printed copy of "The Estate of Poetry" by Edwin Muir.
File
Identifier: Acc.12172
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Willa Muir of (1) T S Elliot, 1962 (2) Helen Sutherland, 1963; with two other Edwin Muir volumes.
Dates:
1962-1963.`
Research papers and literary correspondence between Peter Butter and various correspondents relating to his work on Edwin and Willa Muir., 1913-circa 1999.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13634/1-55
Revised manuscript draft of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8471
Dates:
1983.
Six letters to Norman MacCaig, two of Edwin Muir, and one each of C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Willa Muir and Sean O`Casey.
File
Identifier: Acc.6598
Scope and Contents
On literary and personal matters.
Dates:
1952-1966.
Typescript of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8472
Dates:
1983.
Typescripts of "Carlyle and Jane" and "Edwin Muir and Willa", dramatised recitals by Henry Donald.
File
Identifier: Acc.10181
Dates:
1974-1986.
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