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Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1921-1996. - 1996

Biography

George Mackay Brown (1921-96), was a novelist, poet and playwright, who was born in Orkney. He was educated at Newbattle Abbey College and the University of Edinburgh, and, apart from his time at these institutions, he rarely left the islands of his birth.

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

11 letters of George Mackay Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5760
Scope and Contents

With typescripts of his "Lifeboat and Other Poems".

Dates: 1970-1971.

162 letters of George Mackay Brown to Jenny Robertson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12679
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters, 1981, to Robertson`s daughter Aileen, three incomplete letters and a copy of a poem "To George" by the donor.

Dates: 1977-1996.

235 letters to Alan Bold.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10374
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: George Mackay Brown, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean and Muriel Spark.

Dates: 1964-1990.

Four letters and two postcards of George Mackay Brown and six letters of George Davie concerning his wife, the writer Elspeth Davie, to Valentina Poggi.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12814
Scope and Contents

Includes a covering letter from the recipient of these letters and cards, Valentina Poggi.

Dates: 1985-1997, 2007.

Letter of George Mackay Brown.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11329
Scope and Contents

Concerns a story of a shipwreck on North Ronaldsay.

Dates: 1992.

Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13344
Scope and Contents

Letters, 1986-1994, of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Grawford; with manuscript and typescript poems and acrostics, 1986-1995; uncorrected typescript, 1986, of "The Ballad of the Golden Bird"; sketchbook, 1985, of Kenna Crawford containing manuscript poem of George Mackay Brown.

Dates: 1986-1995.

Letters of Hamish Henderson, Ian Hamilton Finlay and George Mackay Brown to Maurice Fleming.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14018
Scope and Contents

Comprising two letters (1957, 1958) of Hamish Henderson; two letters (1965, ?1966) of Ian Hamilton Finlay; one letter (1966) of George Mackay Brown.

Dates: 1957-1966.

Two letters of George Mackay Brown to John Wilson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14426
Scope and Contents

On life at Moray House, and on Brown's poetry.

Dates: 1960-1961.

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  • Subject: Letters. Correspondence. X

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Subject
Poetry. 4
Postcards. 3
Typescripts. 2
Acrostics. 1
Articles. 1