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Letters to Rachel Annand Taylor.

 File
Identifier: MS.20436
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1909-1956, undated, from Professor Gilbert Murray and his wife. They concern Rachel Annand Taylor's work, in particular her ‘Aspects of the Italian Renaissance’. The typescript of Murray's preface to this is included (folio 32). (Folio 1.) (ii) Letters, 1931, 1933, from George Blake of the publishers Faber and Faber, concerning the publication of ‘Dunbar’. (Folio 58.) (iii) Letters, 1948-1951, undated, from John Gawsworth. (Folio 74.) (iv) Letter,...
Dates: 1909-1956, undated.

Literary and academic correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts and other papers of Alastair Fowler.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10093/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of scholarly publications and poetry of Alastair Fowler, and correspondence reflecting his service on editorial and advisory boards as well as his friendship with literary personalities.

Dates: 1955-1989, undated.

Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12135/1-1062
Scope and Contents Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates: 1937-2001, undated.

Literary and personal papers of Laura Hird.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14109
Dates: Circa 1988 - circa 2017.

Literary and personal papers of Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12478
Scope and Contents

Includes incoming correspondence and manuscript, typescript and research papers for "The Finishing School".

Dates: 2000-2002.

Literary, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates: 1885-2019, undated.

Literary correspondence of Raymond Vettese.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12500
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of J K Annand, H B Cruickshank, C M Grieve, Malcolm 'Callum' Macdonald and Trevor Royle, and manuscripts and typescripts of poems.

Dates: 1968-2000.

Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1948-1991 and undated.

Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27287-27373
Scope and Contents

Nancy Brysson Morrison was the sister of Margaret M Morrison, who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost', and T J Morrison, the novelist and script-writer. As well as publishing under her own name, she wrote numerous romances under the pseudonym 'Christine Strathern' between 1942 and 1959, but they are not represented among these papers.

Dates: 1918-1986, 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, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates: 1951-2011.

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 Alison Fell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12394/1-85
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates: 1971-2001.

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.

 Fonds
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.

 Fonds
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.

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Correspondence. 242
Manuscripts. 172
Letters. Correspondence. 169
Poetry. 121
Articles. 78
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Photographs. 76
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 62
Notes. 58
Drafts. Documents. 51
Notebooks. 50
Copies. Derivative objects. 47
Novels. 44
Diaries. 42
Speeches. Documents. 40
Short stories. 38
Plays. 36
Photocopies. 28
Reviews. Document genre 25
Proofs. printed matter 23
Essays. 20
Lectures. 19
Financial records. 18
Proofs. Printed matter. 18
Transcripts 17
Autobiographies. 16
Biographies. 15
Accounts. 14
Memorandums. 14
Publications. 13
Reviews. Document genre. 13
Transcripts. 13
Memoirs. 11
Translations. Documents. 11
Documents. 10
Illustrations. Layout features. 10
Lists. 10
Literature (writings). 10
Printed materials. Object genre. 10
Excerpts. 9
Personal papers. 9
Reports 9
Scripts. Documents 9
Drawings. Visual works. 8
Genealogies. 8
Minutes. Administrative records. 8
Obituaries. 8
Pamphlets. 8
Professional papers. 8
Stats. Copies. 8
Audiocassettes. 7
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 7
Fiction. 7
Histories. 7
Microfilms. 7
Reports. 7
Research notes 7
Fragments. 6
Legal documents. 6
Portraits. 6
Research notes. 6
Sketches. 6
Slides. Photographs. 6
Administrative records. 5
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 5
Maps. Cartographic materials. 5
Sketches 5
Annotations. 4
Criticism. 4
Ephemera. 4
Extracts. 4
Magazines. periodicals. 4
Minute books. 4
Negatives. Photographs. 4
Offprints. 4
Periodicals. 4
Programmes 4
Scripts. Documents. 4
Sermons. 4
Account books. 3
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 3
Business records. 3
Christmas cards. 3
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 3
Lecture notes. 3
Newsletters. Serials. 3
Photograph albums. 3
Politics. 3
Prefaces. 3
Publishers and publishing. 3
Sound recordings. 3
Travel journals 3
Travel literature 3
Watercolours. Paintings. 3
Wills. 3
Address books. Reference sources. 2
Bibliographies. 2
Calligraphy. Visual works. 2
Catalogues. 2
Compact discs. 2
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Language
English 307
Undetermined 96
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 4
Multiple languages 4
French 1
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Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 12
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 10
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 8
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 7
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 7
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Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 6
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 6
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 5
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 5
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 5
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 5
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 4
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 4
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 4
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 4
Akros, literary magazine 3
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 3
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 3
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 3
Scottish National Party 3
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 3
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 3
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 2
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 2
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 2
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2
Mackay, Colin, poet, 1951-2003 2
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 2
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 2
Mare, Walter John de la, poet and author, 1873-1956 2
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 2
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Munro, Neil, author, pseudonym Hugh Foulis, 1864-1930 2
National Party of Scotland 2
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 2
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 2
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 2
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 2
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955 2
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Akros Publications 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Askew, Gilbert, 1893-1950 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Baker, Helen Mary, missionary, 1908-1988 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Beattie, Arthur James, Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh, 1914-1996: recipient 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
Berry, Alexander, Sydney, merchant, 1781-1873 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Bottrall, Ronald, poet, 1906-1989 1
Brebner, Daniel, Lieutenant, fl 1866 1
Broadsheet, poetry magazine 1
Brooks, Ernest, illustrator and painter, 1911-1993: recipient 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Bull, Francis, Professor of Norwegian Literature at Oslo, 1887-1974 1
Caimbeul, Aonghas Phàdruig (poet and writer) 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982: recipient 1
Cameron, John, of Fassifern, c 1699-1785 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Campbell, Marion, wife of John, of Kilberry, née Durand, b 1919 1
Campbell, Steuart, science writer, b 1937 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Castle, Barbara Anne, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, politician, née Betts, 1910-2002 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649: recipient 1
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