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Academic and literary papers, including typescripts, drafts and correspondence, of Angus Calder.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9851/1-66
Scope and Contents

Concerning his doctoral thesis, books and broadcasts, his involvement in East African literature, his editorship of 'Journal of Commonwealth literature' and convenorship of the Scottish Poetry Library.

Includes lectures notes, drafts, histories, correspondence and interviews.

Dates: 1960-1988.

Corrected typescript drafts and proofs of William Wolfe, "Scotland Lives" (1973).

 File
Identifier: Acc.9537
Scope and Contents

With associated notes and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1973.

Correspondence, drafts, proofs and other papers relating to the publication of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia of the laws of Scotland'; with proofs of "Scotland under 'Jus Commune'", by Gero Dolezalek.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11261/1-368
Scope and Contents Includes minutes, correspondence, administrative papers and drafts of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia'. Note that no attempt has been made 'to weed' the various drafts; this is to allow researchers to compare draft against draft and so follow each expert’s 'train of thought' in particular fields. For any particular area of interest, all the folders/files relating to the subject should be consulted. In items 322-366, particularly, there are extensive drafts and re-drafts of titles with...
Dates: 1981-1996, 2010.

Drafts and proofs of film scripts, short stories, articles and illustrations of Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12557/1-21
Scope and Contents The largest portion of this collection is taken up by drafts of film scripts for 'Poor things', co-written by Alasdair Gray and Sandy Johnson, director, with comments and changes of both, as well as comments and changes of Iain Brown, producer, and Brian Gibson, another director who was later attached to the project.There are also some files of correspondence and drafts of articles and illustrations for other projects, as well as typescripts and proofs of the short story...
Dates: 1988-2003.

Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.511-518
Scope and Contents

There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.

Dates: 1821-1870, undated.

Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates: 1951-2011.

Literary papers of Andrew Greig.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13460/1-64
Content Description

Literary papers of Andrew Greig, circa 2000-2013, relating mainly to the following works: `Getting Higher`, `At the Loch of the Green Corrie`, `As Though We Were Flying`, `Found at Sea`, `Fair Helen`.

Dates: circa 2000-2013.

Literary papers of R B Cunninghame Graham.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9237
Dates: circa 1915-circa 1936.

Literary papers of Ruth Thomas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13389
Scope and Contents

Literary papers, c.1990-2012, of Ruth Thomas comprising digital archive, print-outs, notebooks and business correspondence.

Dates: c. 1990-2012.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates: 1968-1991.

Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11203/1-12
Scope and Contents

Drafts, proofs and some source materials and correspondence for 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

Alasdair Gray's own manuscript drafts are accompanied by typescript transcriptions produced by his typist Scott Pearson, which are then in turn heavily annotated and corrected by Gray. These annotations then inform the next set of manuscript drafts, giving a unique insight into how the book developed and grew.

Dates: 1967, 1985, 1993-1994.

Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true' and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', by Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence and source materials.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10749/1-89
Scope and Contents Includes corrected manuscript and typescript drafts and revised versions of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true', and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', along with finished copies of all three books. There are some files of correspondence concerning the publication of 'Poor things' and 'Ten tales tall and true', as well as some material concerning 'Something leather'.Most files have an A4 sheet inserted at the beginning by Alasdair Gray with a brief summary of the file's...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1896, 1972-1993.

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

Papers and correspondence of Ronald W Clark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9589
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, drafts, photographs, pamphlets and press cuttings.

Dates: 1948-1987.

Papers concerning Denys Hay`s introductory essay, "Fiat Lux" to "Printing and the Mind of Man" (1967).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7684
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, typescript drafts and proofs.

Correspondents include John Carter, Percy Muir and Stanley Morison.

Dates: 1964-1967.

Papers concerning Trevor Royle, "James and Jim: a Biography of James Kennaway" (1983).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8551
Scope and Contents

Includes drafts, proofs, notes and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1980-1983.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4690
Scope and Contents

Comprising manuscript drafts and typescripts of five poems, with galley proofs, typescripts and correspondence concerning "Akros".

Dates: 1967-1968.

Papers of Kathleen Jamie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12107

Papers of Paul Henderson Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13505/1-79
Scope and Contents Paul Henderson Scott was born and educated in Edinburgh, attending Edinburgh’s Royal High School and then moving on to study at Edinburgh University. It was at university that he first became involved with the Saltire Society. Shortly after this Scott was called up to serve in World War Two. He began his training as an army officer driving a lorry. However, through contact with diplomats from the foreign office he decided to take the examination and soon became a diplomat. A long diplomatic...
Dates: 1976-2001

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Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 5
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Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1