With a copy of a petition on behalf of Douglas Young.

With corrected typescript of Henderson`s translation of Antonio Gramsci`s "Lettere dal Carcere".

Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.

With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.

And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.

Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.

Including letters of J D Ferguson, C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid), Hamish Henderson, O H Mavor and Douglas Young

Mostly concerning Henderson`s "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica".

Includes:

Edinburgh University student rectorial broadsheet "Students` Front" (1936)

14 letters and other papers, 1942-1945, of or concerning Douglas Young

copy, undated, of "A Ballad for Douglas Young", attributed to Sydney Goodsir Smith.

The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).

Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, Christopher Murray Grieve, Alexander Scott, and Sydney Goodsir Smith, on literary and personal matters.

Correspondents include:

C M Grieve, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid

Neil M Gunn

Norman MacCaig

Iain Crichton Smith

Sydney Goodsir Smith

Douglas Young

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.

Including a thesis and commentary on Theognis, and notes and correspondence on literary and academic matters.

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".

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.

On musical and literary matters.

Correspondents include C M Grieve, Edwin Muir, and Douglas Young.

Mostly concerning McNeill`s published works.

With two letters, 1939, 1964, to Marian McNeill, from C M Grieve and Augusta Lamont, and a signed photograph of R B Cunninghame Graham.

Mainly concerning Young`s "The Puddocks".