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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 and typescripts of 'The ends of our tethers', by Alasdair Gray, with some related cuttings and correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12609/1-23
Dates:
1995-2003, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of Gavin Ewart, poet.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12908/1-114
Dates:
1890-1996.
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.
Music by Hungarian composers gathered, circa 1902-1921, by Emma Gruber, first wife of Zoltán Kodály.
File
Identifier: MS.21579
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Music by Emma Gruber herself, including 'Albumblatt', for piano, 1902; 'Märchen' for voice and piano, 1908, sketch only; the song 'Kicsi Viragom', undated, for voice and piano; drafts of several movements for string quartet, chiefly in score, though including a version of one movement for piano duet; and other unidentified scraps (folio 1);(ii) Pieces by Zoltán Kodály: Valsette for piano Op. 3, 1910; and a short piece for the collection...
Dates:
1902-1921.
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 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 of Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4690
Scope and Contents
Comprising manuscript drafts and typescripts of five poems, with galley proofs, typescripts and correspondence concerning "Akros".
Dates:
1967-1968.
Papers of Paul Henderson Scott.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13505/1-79
Scope and Contents
Paul Henderson Scott was born and educated in Edinburgh, attending Edinburgh’s Royal High School and then moving on to study at Edinburgh University. It was at university that he first became involved with the Saltire Society. Shortly after this Scott was called up to serve in World War Two. He began his training as an army officer driving a lorry. However, through contact with diplomats from the foreign office he decided to take the examination and soon became a diplomat. A long diplomatic...
Dates:
1976-2001
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27495-27498
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1963-1972.
Typescript drafts, proofs and setting copy of the novel `The Gabriel Hounds` by Mary Stewart, with manuscript working notes concerning the novel.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.117- is now Acc.4666.
Dates:
1967.