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Papers of Hamish Henderson
Includes original draft of the introduction to edition of Antonio Gramsci, "Letter dal Carcere", and correspondence, including seven letters of Willa Muir, on ballads, and a letter of Douglas Young, discussing Henderson`s "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica".
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
Papers of Sir Alexander MacEwen.
Including corrected typescripts of addresses and broadcast talks, manuscript and typescript drafts of an unpublishedwork on nationalism and political systems, and three letters.
Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.
Papers of William Archer, the critic and dramatist, and of D S MacColl, the painter and art critic.
Papers on Scottish Devolution collected by Neal Ascherson and sent to the Institute of Governance, University of Edinburgh.
Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).
The contents are as follows: a letter, or draft letter, undated, of Robert Freebairn to a peer, asking him to patronize the work; printed undertakings to subscribe, two signed, 1739; and a receipt, 1745, for a subscription, signed by Freebairn.
Papers relating to the early history of the Cameronian (Lord Angus’) Regiment.
Peninsular War papers of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple.
Includes letters Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, dispatches, letter books and drafts of his writings.
Photocopy of draft letter of David Morrison to Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).
Poems and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.
All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.
Poems, letters and other papers of the poet William Julius Mickle (1734 or 1735-1788).
Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).
Robin Fulton was born in Arran and became a schoolteacher. From 1967 to 1976 he edited the literary magazine 'Lines Review'. His work is mostly poetry, but also includes reviews, translations and literary studies. The papers consist of drafts and proofs of poems (MSS.27495-27497), and editorial papers for 'Lines Review' (MS.27498).
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
Single items and small collections of letters and verses of Edwin and Willa Muir.
The papers include letters of Edwin Muir to Janet Adam Smith about poetry and reviewing, with drafts of "Orpheus' Dream", first published as 'Eurydice' in ‘The Listener’, xiv (1951) Page 863; letters of Willa Muir to Tom Scott on literary and personal matters; and a series of letters from both Edwin and Willa Muir to Kathleen Raine.
Single manuscripts and small collections, presented at various times.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Transcripts, chiefly, of letters and papers of Sir Hew Campbell of Cessnock and his descendants, and of a few other letters, all of which seem to be connected with the Hamiltons of Silvertonhill.
All are transcripts except drafts of a clause to be added to the Act of Security, circa 1711, and a letter of John Hamilton, 1775, which are originals.