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Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates: 1968-1991.

Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11203/1-12
Scope and Contents

Drafts, proofs and some source materials and correspondence for 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.

Alasdair Gray's own manuscript drafts are accompanied by typescript transcriptions produced by his typist Scott Pearson, which are then in turn heavily annotated and corrected by Gray. These annotations then inform the next set of manuscript drafts, giving a unique insight into how the book developed and grew.

Dates: 1967, 1985, 1993-1994.

Manuscript, first page proofs, and an interleaved proof copy of J A Harvie-Brown, "The Wonderful Trout".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3467
Scope and Contents

With relevant notes and correspondence.

Dates: 1898.

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, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and correspondence of Alasdair Gray, mainly concerning 'Working legs', as well as other works.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11655/1-34
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive working papers and proofs for 'Working legs', including cast notes and publicity materials, as well as papers relating to the 1997 editions of 'Why Scots should rule Scotland' and 'Unlikely stories, mostly'.

Dates: 1966-1997.

Marked proof, undated, of "Carmina Gadelica", corrected by J C Watson and William Matheson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8223
Scope and Contents

With marked proof, undated, of J L Campbell, "Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands", corrected by Angus Matheson, with letters, 1962, of Campbell to Matheson on the book.

Dates: 1962 and undated.

Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);

Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).

Dates: [1548-1550, 1827, or before].

Papers and correspondence of Ronald W Clark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9589
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, drafts, photographs, pamphlets and press cuttings.

Dates: 1948-1987.

Papers concerning Denys Hay`s introductory essay, "Fiat Lux" to "Printing and the Mind of Man" (1967).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7684
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, typescript drafts and proofs.

Correspondents include John Carter, Percy Muir and Stanley Morison.

Dates: 1964-1967.

Papers concerning, "The Age of MacDiarmid. Essays on Hugh MacDiarmid and His Influence on Contemporary Scotland. Edited by P H Scott and A C Davis".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7941
Scope and Contents

Comprising proofs, manuscripts and typescripts of essays, and correspondence.

Dates: 1980.

Papers concerning the literary magazine, "Akros".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8404
Scope and Contents

Comprising corrected typescripts and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1976-1982.

Papers concerning the magazine "Lallans".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8435
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of numbers 11-20, and editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1978-1983.

Papers concerning Trevor Royle, "James and Jim: a Biography of James Kennaway" (1983).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8551
Scope and Contents

Includes drafts, proofs, notes and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1980-1983.

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.

Papers of Agnes Miller Parker.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11238
Scope and Contents

Includes sketches, proofs, engravings for book illustrations and 560 letters, mostly concerning her engravings.

Dates: 1913-1972 and undated.

Papers of and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10173- is now MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1927-1978.

Papers of and concerning Norman Douglas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11365
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, 1917-1951 and undated, and photographs, 1943-1971 and undated, of Norman Douglas, and papers, 1954-1957, of John Davenport concerning a proposed biography of Douglas. These papers formerly formed part of the collection of John Sanderson.

Dates: 1917-1971 and undated.

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Language
English 81
Undetermined 24
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 6
Multiple languages 3
French 1
 
Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 9
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 5
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 4
Akros, literary magazine 3
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 3
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Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 2
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Scott, Paul Henderson, author, b 1920 2
Thomson, Derick Smith, Emeritus Professor of Celtic, University of Glasgow, 1921-2012 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Aitken, James, correspondent of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, fl 1839: recipient 1
Aitken, Margaret Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, d 1932 1
Akros Publications 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Arthur, Sir George Compton Archibald, 3rd Baronet, Private Secretary to Earl Kitchener, 1860-1946 1
Bottrall, Ronald, poet, 1906-1989 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Campbell, John Lorne, scholar of Scottish Gaelic folklore, 1906-1996 1
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Cunningham, Ian Campbell, Keeper of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, b 1938 1
Daiches, David, literary critic and scholar, 1912-2005 1
Davenport, John, writer, fl 1954-1957 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Douglas, George Norman, travel writer, 1868-1952 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Drummond, Andrew Alastair Landale, Minister of Eadie, Alva, d 1966 1
Dunlop, William, playwright, b 1951 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Durrell, Lawrence George, novelist and poet, 1912-1990 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Empson, Sir William, Knight, poet and literary critic, 1906-1984 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980: recipient 1
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 1
Galliard Publishing Ltd 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008: recipient 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 1
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Harvie-Brown, John Alexander, naturalist, 1844–1916 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994: recipient 1
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Hess, Rudolf Walter Richard, deputy of Adolf Hitler, 1894-1987 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916 1
Lallans, Scots language literary magazine 1
Lister, Michael, author, b 1962 1
Lorimer, Robert Lewis Campbell, publisher, 1918-1996 1
Lorimer, William Laughton, Professor of Greek, University of St Andrews, 1885-1967 1
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 1
MacDonald, Greville, writer, 1856-1944 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn (political scientist and politician) 1
Matheson, Angus, 1912-1962 (Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, University of Glasgow) 1
Matheson, William, Reader Emeritus in Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 1910-1995 1
Maxwell , Gavin, Naturalist and author, 1914-1969: recipient 1
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 1
McAlpine, Morag (librarian) (1946-2014) 1
McGregor, Sheila, author of "The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle knitting", fl 1973-2003 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Morison, Stanley, typographer, 1889-1967 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 1
Morrison, Hew, 1850-1935 (Librarian, Edinburgh Public Library, Gaelic scholar) 1
Muir, Percival Horace, antiquarian bookseller, 1894-1979 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
Parker, Agnes Miller, wood engraver and book illustrator, 1895-1980 1
Pont, Timothy, topographer, fl 1574–1611 1
R and R Clark Limited, Edinburgh, printers 1
Rae, Gilbert, poet, 1875-1955: recipient 1
Raine, Kathleen Jessie, poet, 1908-2003 1
Royle, Trevor Bridge (broadcaster and author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) (b 1945) 1
Saltire Society 1
Sanderson, John, collector, d 1986: collector 1
Saunders, Robert Crombie, poet and Editor, 1914-1991. 1
Saurat, Denis, writer, 1890-1958 1
Scotia Review, literary journal 1
Scottish Literary Journal 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 1
Silver, Robert Simpson (James Watt Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 1
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