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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20005-20036
Scope and Contents

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1833-1925, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.8501-8770
Scope and Contents

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: 1898-1955.

Correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11750/1-122
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.

Dates: 1950-1995.

Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description

A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.

The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.

Dates: ca. 1800-1823

Journals, letters, manuscripts, notes, verse and other papers of and relating to Alastair Cram.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13170
Scope and Contents Alastair Cram was educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University and started his working life as a solicitor in private practice at the Scottish Bar. In the Second World War he saw service with the Royal Regiment of Artillery and SAS during which time he was taken prisoner and was involved in several successful escapes. Alastair Cram was awarded the Military Cross in 1945. In peacetime, he served as a Judge in Kenya and, in 1965, was Governor-General of Malawi. Alastair Cram was also a...
Dates: 1928-1967, and undated.

Literary and personal papers of Alastair Mackie, comprising poetry notebooks and manuscripts, translations and journals.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13233
Scope and Contents Alastair Mackie left his literary remains to his friend, and former pupil, the writer Christopher Rush. The collection was very disordered when Rush received it, and he has carried out extensive work in sorting and listing it, alongside his preparation an edition of Alastair Mackie`s collected poems for publication by Two Ravens Press. The collection primarily consists of draft manuscripts of Mackie`s Scots and English poems, and of his translations of ancient and modern European and Russian...
Dates: 1937-1995.

Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26116-26162
Scope and Contents

Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Dates: 1922-1980, undated.

Literary papers of Alastair Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12450
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, poetry worksheets, correspondence with poets, translators and editors, manuscripts and typescripts of prose works, including a book written with Robert Graves, photographs and audio and video tapes.

Dates: 1951-2003.

Literary papers of Alison Fell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12394/1-85
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates: 1971-2001.

Literary papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11108
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1931-1989.

Literary papers of Janet Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11109
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1928-1990.

Literary papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11089
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.

Dates: 1950-1994.

Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12351
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.

Dates: circa 1945-2003.

Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12937
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1964.

Literary papers of Tom Bryan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13566
Scope and Contents Tom Bryan (1950- ) was born in Winnipeg, Canada, but has long been resident in Scotland, his mother’s country. A widely-published and broadcast poet and writer, he has published six collections of poetry, three non-fiction books, two collections of short stories and a novel. Tom Bryan has held a number of residencies and Royal Literary Fellowships, and was the sixth Brownsbank Writing Fellow. He co-edited `Northwords` magazine, founded `The Eildon Tree` and has edited other literary...
Dates: Circa 1981-2014.

Literary papers of Tom Pow.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1969-2003.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates: 1980-1997.

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Correspondence. 38
Typescripts. 24
Manuscripts. 23
Letters. Correspondence. 12
Diaries. 11
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Plays. 9
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 9
Articles. 8
Novels. 8
Photographs. 8
Short stories. 7
Autobiographies. 4
Drafts. Documents. 4
Notes. 4
Scripts. Documents 4
Speeches. Documents. 4
Personal papers. 3
Audiocassettes. 2
Biographies. 2
Documents. 2
Family papers. 2
Fiction. 2
Financial records. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Proofs. printed matter 2
Publications. 2
Sketches 2
Sketches. 2
Videocassettes. 2
Accounts. 1
Albums. 1
Alps (mountain system). Europe. Longitude: 010 00 00 E. Latitude: 46 25 00 N. 1
Annotations. 1
Books 1
Broadcasts. Events. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Caricatures. 1
Catalogues. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Commonplace books. 1
Copies. Derivative objects. 1
Criticism. 1
Drafts. Documents 1
Drama. Literary genre. 1
Drawings. Visual works 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Envelopes. 1
Ephemera. 1
Essays. 1
Excerpts. 1
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 1
Genealogy. 1
Histories. 1
Interleaves. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Kenya. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 38.0000. Latitude: 1.0000. 1
Lists. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Microfilms. 1
Minutes. Administrative records. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Positives. Photographs. 1
Prints. Visual works. 1
Professional papers. 1
Proofs. Printed matter. 1
Registers (lists). 1
Reviews. Document genre 1
Reviews. Document genre. 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Sermons. 1
Sketchbooks. 1
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Sutherland. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland . County. 1
Translations. Documents. 1
Travel journals. 1
Travel literature 1
Worksheets. 1
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Language
English 36
Undetermined 13
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 2
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 2
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Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 2
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Bryan, Tom, Poet, b. 1950. 1
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Clodd, Harold Alexander Alan, publisher and book collector, 1918-2002 1
Cram, Alastair, Lawyer and Judge in Kenya, 1909-1994 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Graves, Robert Ranke, poet and author, 1895-1985 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, 1943-2015 1
Irvine, Alexander, Minister of Little Dunkeld, 1773-1824 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Lowndes, Alan Bailey, landscape painter, 1921-1978: recipient 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
Mackie, Alastair, poet, 1925-1995 1
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Murray, William Hutchison, 1913-1996 (mountaineer, author and environmental campaigner) 1
Perryman, Kevin Alan, Editor of "Babel", b 1950 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993: recipient 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926: recipient 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 1
Scott, Alexander Mackie, poet and editor, 1920-1989 1
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Stuart, Alice V, poet, 1899-1983 1
Todd, Ruthven Campbell, poet, 1914-1978 1
Wallace, William Francis Stuart, composer, 1860-1940 1
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