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Correspondence and papers of Prof Derick S Thomson.
Includes proofs concerning the publication of George Campbell Hay`s "Mochtar is Dughall" (Glasgow, 1982).
Correspondence and papers of Sir William Craigie (1867-1957), the philologist and lexicographer.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Correspondence and papers relating to publications and exhibitions of Hamish Whyte and the Mariscat Press.
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of 'Lifeboat and other poems', by George Mackay Brown.
Contains correspondence between George Mackay Brown, Richard Gilbertson and Norah Smallwood concerning Gilbertson's publishing of 'Lifeboat and other poems', with typescripts of several of the poems included in the collection.
Correspondence and poems of George Bruce.
Correspondence and poems of William Jeffrey (1896-1946).
Educated in Wishaw and at Glasgow University, William Jeffrey spent the rest of his career as a journalist in Glasgow. His literary work consisted of poetry, essays and criticism.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.
Correspondence, essays, articles, cuttings and other literary papers of Alexander MacDonald, Gaelic scholar, and his daughter Mairi MacDonald, novelist and playwright.
Correspondence, log books, literary papers and copies of published articles and press cuttings of Hamish Brown.
Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.
The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence of the antiquary, John Pinkerton, with papers and notes accumulated by him in connection with works which he published or projected.
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.
On possible misinterpretation of his remarks on America.
Includes:
letter, 1857, of Roualeyn Gordon Cumming to Livingstone, acknowledging a copy of his book
photocopy of a poem, 1874, on Livingstone.
Drafts and corrected typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "The Gowks of Mowdieknowes".
With associated correspondence, and photocopies of a play and three poems.