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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
circa 1916-2006.
Correspondence, papers, bromides and negatives of 'Chapman' literary magazine.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10684/1-46
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.
Dates:
1981-1988, undated.
Papers concerning the 'Scotia Review', including corrected typescripts of short stories, poems, and articles submitted for publication, and photographs of contributers; with editorial correspondence, comprising 130 letters to David Morrison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7309 Box 1(1)-Box 4(3)
Dates:
1968-1977, undated.