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Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11310
Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.

Dates: 1899-1953 and undated.

Papers of Robert Kemp.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7622
Scope and Contents

Including diaires, accounts, photographs and typesripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries.

With letters of, among others, James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie.

Dates: circa 1920-1967.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Papers of the Hon William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11222
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of a play, memoirs and reviews, together with correspondence on theatrical matters.

Dates: 1946-1991.

Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26301-26462
Scope and Contents

Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Dates: 1854-1980, undated.

Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26561-26671
Scope and Contents

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1895-1983, undated.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9285
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, accounts, correspondence and play scripts

Dates: 1969-1985.

Papers of William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9406
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and play scripts.

Dates: 1936-1987.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

Scripts of plays of Sean Hignett, and others, for television.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7573
Scope and Contents

With papers concerning Waverley Broadcasting Ltd.

Dates: 1971-1978.

Short pieces of manuscript poetry, prose, notes and letters of George Mackay Brown.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13911/1-3
Scope and Contents

A collection of assorted manuscript writings of George Mackay Brown, including some early notebooks, 1946-1948, and manuscripts of various poems, short stories and plays.

Dates: 1946-1995, undated.

Typescripts and manuscript of plays by Margaret Clarke ('Lesley Storm'), and other papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6711
Scope and Contents

Including typescripts of four other plays, with three letters, 1957 and undated, two of Laurence Olivier and one of Vivien Leith to Storm, concerning her plays.

Dates: 1950-1957 and undated.

Typescripts, manuscripts, proofs, research notes and correspondence of David Thomson, author and radio producer.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10129/1-179
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of David Thomson, author, researcher and BBC radio producer. It includes the scripts and correspondence of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.

Dates: [1923]-1988.

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Correspondence. 46
Typescripts. 36
Manuscripts. 27
Poetry. 27
Letters. Correspondence. 22
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Novels. 20
Short stories. 16
Notebooks. 12
Articles. 11
Diaries. 11
Photographs. 11
Scripts. Documents 10
Drafts. Documents. 9
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 9
Speeches. Documents. 5
Accounts. 4
Notes. 4
Publications. 4
Autobiographies. 3
Biographies. 3
Essays. 3
Memoirs. 3
Personal papers. 3
Professional papers. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Scripts. Documents. 3
Sketches 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Administrative records. 2
Broadcasts. Events. 2
Copies. Derivative objects. 2
Documentaries. 2
Drawings. Visual works. 2
Family papers. 2
Fiction. 2
Literature (writings). 2
Proofs. Printed matter. 2
Proofs. printed matter 2
Reports 2
Reviews. Document genre 2
Slides. Photographs. 2
Architectural drawings. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Authors 1
Books 1
Business records. 1
Children's literature. Literature (writings). 1
Compact discs. 1
Contracts. Agreements. 1
Criticism. 1
DVDs. 1
Ephemera. 1
Essays 1
Excerpts. 1
Exhibition catalogues. 1
Financial records. 1
Fliers. Printed matter. 1
Floppy disks. Magnetic disks. 1
Fragments. 1
Illustrations. Layout features. 1
Inscriptions. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Lists. 1
Memorabilia. 1
Memorandums. 1
Minutes. Administrative records. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Newspapers. 1
Pamphlets. 1
Photocopies. 1
Photographic prints. 1
Political posters. 1
Positives. Photographs. 1
Posters. 1
Printed materials. Object genre. 1
Programmes 1
Prospectuses. 1
Publishers and publishing. 1
Research notes 1
Research notes. 1
Royalty statements. 1
Scores. 1
Scrapbooks 1
Screenplays. 1
Sermons. 1
Sketches. 1
Songs. Musical compositions. 1
Sound recordings. 1
Transparencies. 1
Travel journals 1
Travel journals. 1
United States. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -98.0000. Latitude: 38.0000. 1
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Language
English 58
Undetermined 10
 
Names
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 6
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 3
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 3
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
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Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 2
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 1
Chiari, Joseph, author and critic, 1911-1989 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975. 1
Clifford, Bertram, electrical engineer, 1877-1954 1
Clifford, Jo, playwright, b 1950 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Dionysia Press, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Dunlop, William, playwright, b 1951 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Gilchrist, Dugald, correspondent of Jane B Welsh Carlyle, poet and writer, fl 1824-1825: recipient 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hignett, Sean, playwright and novelist, fl 1971-1987 1
Home, John (minister, soldier and author) 1
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kelsall, Moultrie Rowe, actor and producer, 1904-1980 1
Kemp, Arnold, editor, 'The Glasgow Herald', 1939-2002. 1
Kemp, family 1
Leigh, Vivien, actress, 1913-1967 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
Macdonald, Norman Malcolm, writer and dramatist, 1927-2000 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 1
Mackenzie, Henry, author of "The Man of Feeling", 1745-1831 1
Martin, Theodore, Sir, Knight (author) (1816-1909) 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Murray, William Hutchison, 1913-1996 (mountaineer, author and environmental campaigner) 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier (created 1972), actor and director, 1907-1989 1
Paisley, Janet Violet (poet and playwright) 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Scott, Alexander Mackie, poet and editor, 1920-1989 1
Scott, Thomas Ross, physician and playwright, fl 1913-1948 1
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 1
Thomson, David, author of "Nairn in Darkness and Light", 1914-1988 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
Tolmie, Frances, folklorist, 1840-1926 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 1
Waverley Broadcasting Limited 1
Welsh, Grace, mother of Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle, poet and writer, 1782-1842 1
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