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115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10488
Scope and Contents
With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.
Dates:
1934-1978.
Galley proofs of "A Symposium on the After War Religion", unpublished work edited by Denis Saurat, and including an essay of Hugh MacDiarmid.
File
Identifier: Acc.9410
Scope and Contents
With five letters to Robert S Silver, three from Saurat and one each from MacDiarmid and Robert McLellan.
Dates:
1946-1952.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
'Recollections of my boyhood, with open-air-lessons of later years, by Thomas Edward (of Banff, shoemaker)’.
File
Identifier: MS.2227
Scope and Contents
Four letters, 1883-1884, of Thomas Edward to David Douglas, bookseller, Edinburgh; proofs of Edward's apparently unpublished 'Recollections', as in MS.1662, with some manuscript corrections; proofs of other essays, also apparently unpublished, with corrections.
The title is in the hand of David Douglas.
Dates:
1883-1884.