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Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12015/1-57
Scope and Contents
This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.
Acc.12015/57 gives biographical details on individual correspondents.
Dates:
[Circa 1971-2000], undated.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Copy of 'Wild coal' (1963) by Kenneth White; with a letter of White, some poems in typescript, and newspaper cuttings.
File
Identifier: Acc.14442
Dates:
Circa 1963.
Correspondence and contributions relating to issue 22 of "Scotia Review", published spring 1997.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11469
Dates:
1996-1997.
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dates:
1930-2005.
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 and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Dates:
1792-mid 20th century.
Correspondence and papers of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.349
Dates:
1896-1938, and undated.
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 Tom Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11750/1-122
Scope and Contents
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Dates:
1950-1995.
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, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12817/1-94
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1783, [1930]-2004, undated.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).
Dates:
1968-1983.
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.
Letters, 1878-1888, of William Maccall, apparently to E J Collings, with two poems of Maccall (entitled 'The Hidden Manna' and "Brahma's Cradle"), correspondence, 1890, 1893, of Collings regarding the letters, and a number of press cuttings concerning Maccall and his acquaintance with the Carlyles.
File
Identifier: MS.1805
Dates:
1878-1893.
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
File
Identifier: MS.971
Scope and Contents
The contents include: letters of John Leyden chiefly to William Erskine, 1797—1811, undated (folio 1); poems of Leyden, some apparently unpublished (folio 95); letters to Erskine and others regarding Leyden, written after his death, 1811-1826 (folio 120); and cuttings from Indian newspapers, 1811-1812 (folio 179). Also included are an account in Leyden's hand of the story of Duke Richard Sans Peur and the Company of Hellequin, apparently used by Scott in the essay ‘On the Fairies...
Dates:
1797-1826, undated.
Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2213-2222
Dates:
1782-1880.
Letters of and to Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10909
Scope and Contents
With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.
Dates:
1943 and undated.
Letters of William Sharp ('Fiona Macleod') to the publisher Frank Murray concerning two of Sharp’s works: ‘Vistas’ (Derby, 1894) and ‘Pharais’ (Derby, 1894); with related material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9985-9986
Dates:
1893, 1894, 1899, undated.
Literary and personal papers, 1909-1953, of Joyce Anstruther Placzek, known as 'Jan Struther', with related papers, 1954-2010, including printed material and press cuttings.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13220/1-49
Scope and Contents
Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates:
1909-2010.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates:
1962-2010.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13722
Dates:
Circa 1946-1994.
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.