A collection of manuscripts, typescripts and printed versions of poems that were collected by Christopher Murray Grieve (‘Hugh MacDiarmid’) for a proposed edition of his selected poems for the Colt Press in 1941.

This description follows the proposed contents list, and includes the other poems that it seems were not intended for the published edition.

‘Contents’.

[Dedication].

‘Preface: Introducing Hugh MacDiarmid’. (Not present).

‘Two Memories’. Manuscript.

‘Harry Semen’. (Not present).

‘Bonnie Birdie, A’Aflocht’. Printed version, with manuscript of footnote.

‘The Auld Houff’. Printed version, with manuscript footnote.

‘Larking Dallier’. Printed version, annotated with text of footnote.

‘Poems of the War in Spain’. Two manuscript versions.

‘The King of Poetry I Want’. Manuscript.

‘Our Problem Today and Its Solution’. Typescript.

‘The Kulturkampf’. Corrected typescript.

‘In Talk With Donnachadh Bàn MacAn T’Saoir’. Corrected carbon copy of typescript, with manuscript of footnotes.

‘Auld Reekie’. (Not present).

‘Of Red, the Socialist Colour’. Manuscript.

‘Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone’. Manuscript.

‘On Reading Professor Ifor William’s “Canu Aneurin” in Difficult Days’. (Not present).

‘Poetry Like the Hawthorn (On the Death of W B Yeats)’. (Not present).

‘Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevyln’. Corrected typescript.

Additional poems, not included in original contents list:

‘Advice to Younger Poets’. Typescript.

‘So Here I Hail All the Fellow Artists I Know’. Corrected typescript with additional manuscript folio.

Selected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1934). (Incomplete).