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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.

Literary papers of Jean Evans, pseudonym Jane Shaw.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12060
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts and correspondence.

Dates: 1928-1971, undated.

Literary papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11089
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.

Dates: 1950-1994.

Literary papers of Ronald Frame.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12045
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of short stories, novels, plays, and works for radio.

Dates: circa 1980-2000.

Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12351
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.

Dates: circa 1945-2003.

Literary papers of Tom Pow.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1969-2003.

Literary papers of William McIlvanney.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 1(1)-Box 5(40)

Manuscript essays of George Mackay Brown concerning Gerard Manley Hopkins, with related notebooks and notes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13909
Scope and Contents

Includes several manuscript essays concerning various aspects of Hopkins' work, as well as three notebooks and some loose pages of notes, all concerning Hopkins.

Dates: Circa 1962-1964.

Manuscript notebook of Edward Boyd.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4747
Scope and Contents

Containing sketches of broadcast scripts.

Dates: circa 1940-circa 1969.

Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates: 1177, 15th century-1924.

Manuscripts of Donald MacPherson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14890-14895
Scope and Contents Donald MacPherson is described in ‘Cairm’, volume 25, page 207. He was born in Laggan, Badenoch, about 1788 (MS.14891, page 124). He served in the 75th Regiment for fourteen years, and reached the rank of sergeant. On leaving the army he married Mary Stacey, a native of Richmond-on-Thames, and entered business as a bookseller at 54 Upper Ebury Street, Pimlico. In 1824 he published some of his English poems as ‘Melodies from the Gaelic’. This achieving some success, he proposed another work,...
Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates: 1980-1997.

Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8844/1-65
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.

Dates: 1896-circa 1976.

Microfilm of manuscripts chiefly concerned with Orkney and Shetland.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.484
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Notebook, 2nd half of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, of Sir Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material (Adv.MS.13.2.8);‘Glossary of Shetland words’, Early 19th century, prepared for John Jamieson by the Reverend Thomas Barclay, principal of Glasgow University (Adv.MS.22.5.2);Original manuscript, 1776, of ‘Fauna Orcadensis’ by George Low, Minister of Birsay (Adv.MS.32.4.1);Manuscripts, 1770-1772,...
Dates: 2nd half of 17th century-early 19th century.

Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.464
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);

Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);

Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);

Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).

Dates: [1925, or after-?1959.]

Notebook containing the manuscript of a farce, 'Redwood', in two acts, with short stage instructions and occasional verses in the text.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9378
Scope and Contents

Watermark evidence suggests a date for the volume circa 1795.

Dates: [Circa 1795.]

Notebook containing transcripts of specifications and articles by various authors relating to a wide variety of small engineering undertakings, owned and chiefly compiled by R Blackadder.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19981
Scope and Contents R Blackadder worked in Dundee, and appears to have been a member of the family of mapmakers and civil engineers from Berwickshire. He was part estate management consultant and part engineer. His interests ranged from manure and drainage, to the construction of damheads, ice houses, bridges, and railway curves. He also made notes on landlord tenant relations, on crop rotation, and on the organisation of various large estates. His work was primarily in Angus, but he spent some time in...
Dates: Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

Notebook of Andrew Rule, a schoolmaster in Aberdeenshire.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.12
Scope and Contents

As well as teaching in a number or local schools, mostly in the parish of Glenmuick, Rule taught book-keeping, navigation and arithmetic to private pupils. His notebook includes accounts, lists of books, minutes of visits to the schools by the committee of the presbytery, and reflections on the events of the year. These last are mostly of a religious nature, but he mentions his own and his children`s affairs and (folio 48) the political events of 1745.

Dates: 1713-1755.

Notebook of David Morrison containing drafts of poems and notes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12226
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems for "Caithness Coronach" (2003).

Dates: circa 1988-2002.

Notebook of Richard Augustine Hay apparently originally intended for notes (folio 1), meditations and extracts (folios 1-10 inverted) of a religious character, but used almost entirely for transcripts of documents relating to the family of Sinclair of Rosslyn (folios 3-83).

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.2
Scope and Contents Following the transcripts are a list of books ‘of help for Composing our history’ (folio 84) and transcripts of two charters apparently unrelated to Rosslyn or the Sinclairs. The notes and transcripts are all undated but were doubtless made before the writing of Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9 was begun in 1700. Most perhaps were made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1690; Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiæ’ (first published 1693) is mentioned at folio 86. The watermark of the leaves...
Dates: 4th quarter of 17th century.

Notebooks and manuscripts of Willa Muir, Edwin Muir's wife.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19675-19702
Dates: 1959-[1968, or before], undated.

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Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
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Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
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Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
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Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
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Clodd, Harold Alexander Alan, publisher and book collector, 1918-2002 1
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Evans, Jean Bell Shaw, children's author, pseudonym 'Jane Shaw', née Patrick, 1910-2000 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fidler, Kathleen Annie (afterwards Goldie, author and headmistress) 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
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Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Johnston, Thomas, politician and newspaper editor, 1881-1965 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 1
Maitland, Sir Frederick Lewis, Knight, Rear-Admiral, 1777-1839 1
McIlvanney, William Angus (novelist, poet and journalist) 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Morrison, Margaret Mackie (novelist, writing under the pen name 'March Cost') (1897-1973) 1
Perryman, Kevin Alan, Editor of "Babel", b 1950 1
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993 1
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Scott, Alexander Mackie, poet and editor, 1920-1989 1
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 1
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