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25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6831
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Porpoise Press.

With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.

Dates: 1925.

Collection of papers, chiefly seventeenth century, which appear to have belonged to Richard Almack, Suffolk.

 File
Identifier: MS.3922
Scope and Contents The papers fall into two main categories: papers relating to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, including an account of fees paid by him on his installation as a Knight of the Garter, 1672, printed in ‘The Herald and Genealogist’, volume iii (1866), pages 222-224; and papers relating to Catherine Murray, Countess of Dysart, including a number of passes signed by prominent parliamentarians, such as Warwick and Essex. There are also typescript copies of correspondence between Richard Almack...
Dates: 1567-1873, undated.

Corrected manuscripts and typescripts of Forbes Macgregor, "Famous Scots" (1984), "More Macgregor`s Mixture" (1983), and "Excursions with Garioch".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8925
Scope and Contents

With four letters, 1963-1978, of Robert Garioch to Forbes Macgregor.

Dates: 1963-1984.

Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, articles and reviews, of Nigel Tranter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9402/1-58
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, topographical works, and articles, together with correspondence comprising around 2000 letters.

Dates: [?1955]-1986.

Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11050
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.

Dates: circa 1955-1976.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.

With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.

And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.

Dates: 1890-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7085 Box 1(1)-Box 32
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.

Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.

Dates: 1938-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Robert Duncan Macleod, editor of the ‘Library review’.

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Identifier: MS.10330
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Corrected typescripts and manuscripts of articles by Frederick Niven and others, published in the ‘Library review’, volumes iii-iv (1932-1934), and in ‘Modern Scottish literature’, edited by R D Macleod (Glasgow, 1933), pages 13-16. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence between Macleod and L Stanley Jast, 1930-1944, concerning libraries and Jast's contributions to the ‘Library review’. It includes the manuscript of an article by Jast, 'The man...
Dates: 1930-1944.

Correspondence and papers of William Winter Hamilton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10951/1-124
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Dates: 1950-1987.

Correspondence between Lewis Spence and R E Muirhead.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3565
Scope and Contents

With an offprint of article of Spence.

Dates: 1927-1930.

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14596/1-248
Scope and Contents This archive contains literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown, the celebrated Orcadian poet and novelist. At the heart of this collection is the vast amount of correspondence received by George Mackay Brown throughout his life from friends, fans, editors, publishers and others. These letters, postcards and greetings cards give a unique insight into the breadth of attention that his work drew, as well as the connections he made with correspondents from across the world, all from...
Dates: 1800, 1934-2013, undated.

Correspondence, essays, articles, cuttings and other literary papers of Alexander MacDonald, Gaelic scholar, and his daughter Mairi MacDonald, novelist and playwright.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7708/1-130
Scope and Contents Papers of Alexander MacDonald, circa 1886-1962, including manuscripts of poems and essays, and associated correspondence. Also present are the papers of his daughter Mairi A MacDonald, 1915-1977, including manuscripts of novels, plays, and articles, with associated correspondence, including letters of Gordon Daviot. The collection also includes a book of poems by Isobel MacDonald, either the sister or mother of Alexander MacDonald; as well as some magazines and journals relating to Scottish...
Dates: 1886-1977.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1895-1965, undated.

Drafts and corrected typescripts of "The Seven Deadly Sins: a Mask", libretto by Robert Nye, music by James Douglas.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6241/1-5
Scope and Contents

With manuscript score of the music, and correspondence concerning the work and its performance at the Stirling Festval, 1973, and Edinburgh International Festival, 1974.

Dates: 1973-1974.

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.

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Manuscripts. 172
Correspondence. 126
Poetry. 76
Letters. Correspondence. 48
Articles. 39
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Photographs. 38
Drafts. Documents. 36
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 35
Notebooks. 30
Speeches. Documents. 26
Notes. 23
Novels. 23
Plays. 22
Short stories. 21
Diaries. 20
Copies. Derivative objects. 17
Proofs. Printed matter. 15
Essays. 14
Financial records. 11
Lectures. 11
Reviews. Document genre. 11
Autobiographies. 9
Photocopies. 9
Reviews. Document genre 9
Literature (writings). 8
Proofs. printed matter 8
Pamphlets. 7
Printed materials. Object genre. 7
Publications. 7
Accounts. 6
Audiocassettes. 6
Drawings. Visual works. 6
Memorandums. 6
Personal papers. 6
Scripts. Documents 6
Stats. Copies. 6
Illustrations. Layout features. 5
Lists. 5
Sketches. 5
Slides. Photographs. 5
Criticism. 4
Excerpts. 4
Fragments. 4
Memoirs. 4
Minutes. Administrative records. 4
Negatives. Photographs. 4
Obituaries. 4
Professional papers. 4
Reports 4
Administrative records. 3
Biographies. 3
Ephemera. 3
Fiction. 3
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 3
Legal documents. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
Reports. 3
Research notes 3
Research notes. 3
Scripts. Documents. 3
Sermons. 3
Transcripts 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Address books. Reference sources. 2
Annotations. 2
Calligraphy. Visual works. 2
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 2
Compact discs. 2
DVDs. 2
Descriptions. Documents. 2
Documents. 2
Family papers. 2
Fliers. Printed matter. 2
Floppy disks. Magnetic disks. 2
Histories. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Magazines. periodicals. 2
Periodicals. 2
Photographic prints. 2
Piobaireachd. Great Highland Bagpipe music. 2
Postcards. 2
Prefaces. 2
Radio scripts. 2
Sketches 2
Transcripts. 2
Travel journals. 2
Travel literature 2
Videocassettes. 2
Wills. 2
Acrostics. 1
Admiralty charts. 1
Albums. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Authors 1
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Books 1
Born digital. 1
Business records. 1
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Language
English 132
Undetermined 39
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
Multiple languages 1
Scots 1
 
Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 11
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 4
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 4
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
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Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 4
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 2
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 2
Munro, Neil, author, pseudonym Hugh Foulis, 1864-1930 2
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 2
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 2
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 2
Scottish National Party 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 2
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Akros Publications 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Bottrall, Ronald, poet, 1906-1989 1
Broadsheet, poetry magazine 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Cameron, John, of Fassifern, c 1699-1785 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 1
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975. 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Clodd, Harold Alexander Alan, publisher and book collector, 1918-2002 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Crawford, Kenna (artist) (b. 1959) 1
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Datta, Kitty W Scoular, Head of Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, née Scoular, b 1930 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Douglas, James, composer, b 1932 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Durrell, Lawrence George, novelist and poet, 1912-1990 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Empson, Sir William, Knight, poet and literary critic, 1906-1984 1
Evans, Jean Bell Shaw, children's author, pseudonym 'Jane Shaw', née Patrick, 1910-2000 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan (poet) (1916-1995) 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Foster, John, Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History, University of Glasgow, 1898-1973 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980: recipient 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Graham, Gabriela Cunninghame, née de la Balmondière, pseudonym, writer, 1859-1906 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, Knight, General, 1853-1947 1
Hamilton, William Winter, politician, 1917-2000 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hird, Laura (novelist and short story writer) 1
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 1
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 1
Insh, George Pratt, historian, b 1883 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kerr, Roderick Watson, poet and author, d c 1973 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Leigh, Vivien, actress, 1913-1967 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
Liston, family 1
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