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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
circa 1916-2006.
Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents
Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).
Dates:
2001-2012.
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 and typescripts of 'The ends of our tethers', by Alasdair Gray, with some related cuttings and correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12609/1-23
Dates:
1995-2003, undated.
Papers of and concerning Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing tpescripts of plays and short stories, associated correspondence, and other related material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8802/1-124
Dates:
1912-1978.
Papers of Robert Kemp, including typescripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries; correspondence, including letters from James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie; diaries, accounts, press cuttings and photographs.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.294- is now Acc.7622.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1967.
Typescripts of literary works by Tom Hanlin (1907-1953).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27417-27425
Scope and Contents
Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.
Dates:
1942-1949, undated.