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Letters of, and an article by, Robert D Macleod.

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Identifier: MS.9997
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters,1930-1956, undated, to Robert Macleod, chiefly in his capacity of editor of ‘Library review’. The writers include J M Builoch, R B Cunninghame Graham, and Donald Carswell. Most of the correspondence concerns articles for ‘Library review’, but there is also material on a memorial to Cunninghame Graham, and a number of autobiographical notes requested by Macleod in 1932. (Folio 1.) (ii) Typescript, 1957, of an unpublished article by Macleod entitled...
Dates: 1930-1957, undated.

Letters of Thomas Hardy to Sir George B Douglas, 5th Baronet of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.

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Identifier: MS.8121
Scope and Contents

As well as giving his impressions of contemporary literary figures, Hardy discusses poetry and frequently mentions both his own and Douglas's work including the reception in 1895-1896 of 'Jude the Obscure'.

The letters are followed by a typescript of Sir George Douglas's article, 'Thomas Hardy: personal reminiscences’.

Dates: 1887-1924, undated.

Literary papers and diaries of the author and poet, Violet Jacob (1863-1946).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27411-27416
Scope and Contents

Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.

Dates: 1895-[circa 1945], undated.

Literary papers of Alexander Law.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11490
Scope and Contents

Papers mainly concern studies of Scottish schools and school books, education in Edinburgh, and the works of Allan Ramsay. Includes correspondence and papers of Burns Martin and John Walter Oliver on earlier editions of the works of Ramsay.

Dates: circa 1930-1990.

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Includes correspondence, typescripts of novels published and unpublished, play-scripts, a diary of a visit to the United States, first copies of published works of fiction and non-fiction.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 James B Caird.

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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.

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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.

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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 the poet and author, Alastair Reid (born 1926).

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Identifier: MSS.27446-27464
Scope and Contents

Born in Whithorn and educated at St Andrews, Alastair Reid lived in Spain and Latin America for many years, translating from Spanish as well as writing his own poetry and prose. His papers reflect these different kinds of work.

Dates: 1953-1981, undated.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of autobiographical work of Naomi Mitchison, "Small Talk" (1973).

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Identifier: Acc.5942
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescripts of three autobiographical articles.

Dates: 1973.

Manuscript poems of Forbes Macgregor.

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Identifier: Acc.10549
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts and typescripts of three articles, 1932 and undated, of Macgregor.

Dates: 1921-1990 and undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of notes and articles of Iain F Anderson.

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Identifier: Acc.5768
Scope and Contents

Concerning Scottish history and topography.

Dates: circa 1949-circa 1956.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Tom Leonard concerning "Nora`s Place" and "Situations Theoretical and Contemporary".

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Identifier: Acc.11402
Scope and Contents

Includes four prose articles.

Dates: 1986-1994 and undated.

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Language
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Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 4
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 4
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 4
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
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Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Scottish National Party 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Scotia Review, literary journal 2
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Akros Publications 1
Anderson, Iain Fleming, historian, b 1902 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Boag, William G F, Assistant to the Keeper, Scottish United Services Museum, 1923-1992 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Campbell, Steuart, science writer, b 1937 1
Craigen, James Mark, politician and author, b 1938 1
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Fraser, George Macdonald, journalist, novelist and screen-writer, 1925-2008 1
Free Inquiry, New York, secular humanist journal 1
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008: recipient 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Halliday, James, author, historian and politician, 1927-2013 1
Home, Henry, Lord Kames, Senator of the College of Justice, 1696-1782 1
Innes, Susan Katriona (journalist and feminist historian) 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Law, Alexander, HM Inspector of Schools, 1903-1995 1
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Martin, Burns, author of "Allan Ramsay: a Study of His Life and Works", fl 1900-1945 1
McKay, Helen S, writer, fl 1934-1940 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
McNeill, Leila K, Edinburgh, fl 1968-1969 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Milton, Nan, Avonbridge, fl 1965 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muirhead, Roland Eugene, Chairman of the Scottish National Party, 1868-1964 1
Murray, Isobel Mary, Emeritus Professor, Modern Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen, b 1939: collector 1
National Party of Scotland 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
O'Rockie, John, author of "Communism in Theory and Practice", fl 1918-1949 1
Ogilvie, John, Minister of Cumbernauld, b 1865 1
Oliver, John Walter, Principal Lecturer in English, Moray House Training College, Edinburgh, 1893-1957 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971. 1
Paterson, Janet C, writer on Scottish crafts, fl 1960-1980 1
Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, journalist, naval intelligence officer and genealogist, 1883-1969 1
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Reid, John M, author, pseudonym 'David Toulmin', 1913-1998 1
Roy, James Alexander, Professor of English, Queen's University, Kingston, 1884-1973 1
Saltire Society 1
Scotland's Magazine 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Shakespeare, William, playwright, 1564-1616 1
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955 1
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955: recipient 1
Standard Press Ltd, Montrose, publishers 1
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