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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 relating to the publication of works of Mollie Hunter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11073/1-122
Scope and Contents

Includes editorial correspondence, typescripts and proofs of novels, and some book jackets and illustrations.

Dates: 1960-1993, undated.

Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12135/1-1062
Scope and Contents Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates: 1937-2001, undated.

Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1948-1991 and undated.

Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27287-27373
Scope and Contents

Nancy Brysson Morrison was the sister of Margaret M Morrison, who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost', and T J Morrison, the novelist and script-writer. As well as publishing under her own name, she wrote numerous romances under the pseudonym 'Christine Strathern' between 1942 and 1959, but they are not represented among these papers.

Dates: 1918-1986, 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 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 George Blake.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11930
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, typescripts of novels published and unpublished, play-scripts, a diary of a visit to the United States, first copies of published works of fiction and non-fiction. Also includes notes on Blake, copies of articles by him and correspondence and papers of Christopher Dalgleish accumulated in the course of an uncompleted dissertation.

Dates: 20th century.

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 Norman Malcolm Macdonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11876
Scope and Contents

Includes playscripts, a heavily corrected typescript of an historical novel "The Eternal Surge", correspondence and reviews.

Dates: 1974-1999.

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, proofs and correspondence relating to 'Old men in love', by Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12899/1-38
Scope and Contents These working papers for 'Old men in love', the final novel of Alasdair Gray, reflect the book's journey from three plays written by Gray for stage and television in the 1970s to their reworking some thirty years later into the fictional John Tunnock's unfinished novels. The novel changed title several times throughout its development, and descriptions of material have been provided based on the title used in that draft.The set of twenty bound typescripts highlight Alasdair...
Dates: 1975-2007.

Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.

Dates: 1933-1961, undated.

Papers of Alexander Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8348
Scope and Contents

Including letters, notebooks, diaries and corrected typescripts of plays, short stories, poems, novels, and articles.

Correspondents include James Bridie, Neil Gunn, and Robert McLellan.

Dates: 1928-1981.

Papers of Allan Campbell McLean.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12134
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, typescripts of novels, correspondence and financial papers.

Dates: 1960-1989.

Papers of and concerning Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10282/1-69
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.

Dates: 1916-1977.

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Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 5
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
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Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 2
Mackay, Colin, poet, 1951-2003 2
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Caimbeul, Aonghas Phàdruig (poet and writer) 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fletcher, David, literary agent, David Fletcher Associates, fl 1979-2001 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Graham, Angus, forester and architectural historian, 1892-1980 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Lemaire, Angela, artist, engraver, b 1944 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 1
MacDonald, Mary, née Doyle, wife of Thomas Joseph Douglas MacDonald, author , 1911-1999: recipient 1
Macdonald, Norman Malcolm, writer and dramatist, 1927-2000 1
Mair, Henry, Founder of the Scottish Open Poetry Cup Competition, b 1945 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McLean, Allan Campbell, novelist, 1922-1989 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Murison, David D, lexicographer, 1914-1997 1
Pound, Ezra Loomis, poet, 1885-1972 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Scott, Margaret Heather, wife of Tom, poet and editor, née Fretwell, b ? 1934: recipient 1
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 1
Scott, Thomas Ross, physician and playwright, fl 1913-1948 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 1
Stanford, Derek, poet and critic, 1918-2008 1
Tennant, Emma Christina, novelist, b 1937 1
Tennant, Emma Christina, novelist, b 1937: recipient 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
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