Collection name. Moncreiff, George Scott, Author
Record Group
Identifier: Collection name
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of George Scott-Moncrieff and his first wife, Ann, to the poet and author Morley Jamieson.
File
Identifier: MS.26973
Scope and Contents
The Scott-Moncrieff’s were received into the Catholic church in 1940, and many of their letters are on theological matters. They also discuss nationalism and Morley Jamieson's literary work. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1939 to 1941.
Dates:
1938-1967, undated.
Manuscripts of parts of George Scott-Moncrieff's verse drama ‘Fotheringhay’, and of his history of the Catholic Church in Scotland, ‘The mirror and the cross’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19628-19631
Dates:
1951, 1960.
Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26941-26972
Scope and Contents
George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.
Dates:
1951-1970, undated.