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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 and typescript of an autobiography, "The Buzzing Fly" by Fanny Susan Copeland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11904
Scope and Contents

Concerns Copeland`s life in Slovenia and wartime internment in Italy. Includes poems and biographical notes.

Dates: circa 1960-1975.

Manuscript and typescripts of novels and short stories by Eona Macnicol.

 File
Identifier: MS.19706
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript with manuscript corrections of the novel ‘Colum of Derry’, 1954, dated 1946 by the author, Eona Mcnicol (Folio 1.) (ii) Three pages of corrected typescript of ‘Lamp in the night wind’, 1957. (Folio 128.) (iii) Corrected typescript, being the second draft of 'Grey boy', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, volume 301 (1967), pages 537-547. The last page is missing. (Folio 132.) (iv) Final typescript and broadcast script of 'A night of rain, 1968....
Dates: 1946-[1969, or before.]

Manuscript and typescripts of short stories and novels by Fred Urquhart (1912-1995).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26992-26997
Scope and Contents

Fred Urquhart was educated in Stranraer and Edinburgh and worked as a reader and editor for Cassell and other publishers. Much of his own literary work was in the form of short stories.

Dates: 1929-1968.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescript of novel of Nigel Tranter, "Past Master".

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6303/1-5
Dates: Majority of material found within [Before 1965.], 1973

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of autobiographical work of Naomi Mitchison, "Small Talk" (1973).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5942
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescripts of three autobiographical articles.

Dates: 1973.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "You May Well Ask".

 File
Identifier: Acc.7219
Scope and Contents

Being a volume of autobiography covering the years 1918-1940.

Dates: 1978.

Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems of Alan Jackson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6053/1-33
Scope and Contents

Poems and notebooks of Alan Jackson, Edinburgh poet, some of them used in his book 'Underwater wedding' and 'Salutations'.

Dates: 1955-1968, undated.

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Manuscripts. 328
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Correspondence. 126
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Proofs. Printed matter. 24
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Diaries. 23
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Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 3
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Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 14
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 9
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 8
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 8
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 8
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Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 8
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 7
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 5
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 5
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 4
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 4
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 4
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 4
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 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
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 3
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 3
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 3
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 2
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 2
Macdonald, Malcolm 'Callum' (printer and publisher) 2
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Munro, Neil, author, pseudonym Hugh Foulis, 1864-1930 2
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 2
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 2
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 2
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 2
Scottish National Party 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 2
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 2
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 2
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 2
Watson, Roderick, poet, b 1943 2
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Akros Publications 1
Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
Anderson, Iain Fleming, historian, b 1902 1
Anderson, William C, poet, 1867-1951 1
Baxter, Jean, correspondent of James Leslie Mitchell, author, née Smith, 1886-1968 1
Bellany, John (artist) 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Bottrall, Ronald, poet, 1906-1989 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
Broadsheet, poetry magazine 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Broughton High School, Edinburgh 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Brown, James Hope, poet, fl 1913-1932 1
Brown, W D, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, fl 1942-1943 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948: recipient 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Cairns, David Smith, Principal, Christ's College, Aberdeen, 1862-1946 1
Cameron, John, of Fassifern, c 1699-1785 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 1
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975. 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Clodd, Harold Alexander Alan, publisher and book collector, 1918-2002 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Copeland, Fanny Susan, translator and journalist, 1872-1970 1
Corrie, Joseph, miner and playwright, 1894-1968 1
Craig, Robert, Principal of University of Rhodesia, 1917-1995 1
Crawford, Kenna (artist) (b. 1959) 1
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Datta, Kitty W Scoular, Head of Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, née Scoular, b 1930 1
Davidson, James Lauder, forester, 1916-1992 1
Davie, George Elder, Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1912-2007 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Douglas, James, composer, b 1932 1
Drysdale, George John Learmont, composer, 1866-1909 1
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