This collection was given to the Library from one of Edwin Muir`s great-nephews and copyright-holders. The core of the collection is a substantial file of letters from both the Muirs to Edwin’s sister Lizzie, and later, to her daughters, dating from 1921-1970. This is family rather than literary correspondence, and gives an insight into the Muirs’ peripatetic lives - often financially difficult but always determinedly creative. The additional papers, including incoming correspondence and family photographs, may possibly have been kept by Willa and passed into family hands on her death. The correspondents include Christopher Grieve, Kathleen Raine, Stanley Cursiter, T S Eliot and a host of others. There are also some papers relating to Gavin, the Muirs` son.