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Letters of Professor Alexander McCall Smith, 2007-2022

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Identifier: MS.50717

Scope and Contents

Letters and greeting cards of Professor Alexander McCall Smith to Lucinda Mackay regarding social occasions, invitations, shared cultural interests, writing projects, and news of family life. Correspondents also include McCall Smith's wife Elizabeth and his assistant Lesley Winton. File also includes poems written and presented by McCall Smith to Lucinda Mackay for her birthdays in 2012, 2021, and 2022; brief correspondence concerning a filmed interview undertaken between Mackay and McCall Smith in April 2015 on Mackay's career; and a published short story by McCall Smith entitled Good President Wenceslas (2013).

Dates

  • Creation: 2007-2022

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Extent

1 Folders

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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