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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by John Kincaid (1909-1981), the schoolteacher and founder member of the Clyde Group.

 File
Identifier: MS.26189
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Drafts, fair copies and a few typescripts of poems, 1968-1969, undated (folio l). These were included in the posthumously published collection of John Kincaid's poems, ‘Windward of Ithaca; one man's love of Mull’ (Droitwich, 1986). (ii) 'The Flyting of Kincaid and Gold', 1969 (folio 36). Manuscripts, corrected typescripts and the final typescript of a poetic dispute written by Kincaid and Eric Gold. (iii) Drafts of poems by Kincaid, 1968-1969, undated...
Dates: 1968, 1969, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, collected for a proposed American edition of his selected poems.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12058
Scope and Contents A collection of manuscripts, typescripts and printed versions of poems that were collected by Christopher Murray Grieve (‘Hugh MacDiarmid’) for a proposed edition of his selected poems for the Colt Press in 1941.This description follows the proposed contents list, and includes the other poems that it seems were not intended for the published edition.‘Contents’.[Dedication].‘Preface: Introducing Hugh MacDiarmid’. (Not present).‘Two...
Dates: Circa 1941.

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 reviews, critical works and poetry of Tom Leonard.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11807
Scope and Contents

Includes video and radio cassettes concerning "The City of Dreadful Night" and "Radical Renfrew".

Dates: 1965-1999.

Manuscripts and typescripts of short stories and poems of George Mackay Brown.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4835/1-20
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and typescripts of short stories, 1958-1967 and undated, and manuscript drafts for part of the poem cycle 'Fishermen with ploughs' (Hogarth Press, 1971).

Some of the stories were published in 'A calendar of love and other stories' (Hogarth Press, 1967) and 'A time to keep and other stories' (Hogarth Press, 1969).

Dates: 1958-1967.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith; with letters to Hazel Goodsir Smith.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12006
Scope and Contents Manuscripts and Typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith:Corrected carbon copy of typescript, circa 1948, of 'Under the Eildon Tree'.Manuscripts, circa 1952-1953, of four poems dedicated to Hazel Goodsir Smith.‘Tis Late’ was published in 'Lines Review', 6 (1954), page 23; ‘Mareeld’ was published in 'Omens' (Edinburgh: M.Macdonald, 1955), page 16.Letter, undated, to Hazel Goodsir Smith.Manuscript drafts, undated, of ‘Said Heraclitus’....
Dates: Circa 1948-1976, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of the writings of William Sharp and of the works in the Celtic vein which Sharp wrote under the name of 'Fiona MacLeod'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8771-8786
Scope and Contents

The papers include a substantial amount of apparently unpublished material and some correspondence.

Dates: 1871-1910, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Tom Leonard concerning "Nora`s Place" and "Situations Theoretical and Contemporary".

 File
Identifier: Acc.11402
Scope and Contents

Includes four prose articles.

Dates: 1986-1994 and undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of two novels by Hugh D M McCutcheon (1909- ).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26988-26991
Scope and Contents

Hugh McCutcheon was educated in Paisley and at Glasgow University, and served as Town Clerk of Renfrew from 1945 to 1974. His literary work consisted mainly of mystery novels and thrillers. Both manuscripts are heavily corrected but the final text is very close to the published version. The typescripts, which have a few manuscript corrections, are marked up for the printer.

Dates: [1967, or before]-[1968 or before.]

Manuscripts and typescripts of two novels by James Allan Ford (1920-2009).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27486-27492
Scope and Contents

James Allan Ford was educated in Edinburgh and entered the Civil Service in 1938, rising to become Principal Establishment Officer in the Scottish Office. During the second World War he served in the defence of Hong Kong and later drew on this experience for his novel ‘The brave white flag’ (London, 1961).

Dates: [1961, or before]-1987, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of translations of poetry and prose by George S Fraser.

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Identifier: Acc.11406
Scope and Contents

Includes related correspondence, 1965-1986, and an undated manuscript of W S Graham.

Dates: 1965-1986 and undated.

Manuscripts, chiefly autograph, and typescripts of the novel 'Kingisbyres or The end of an old song' by John Dick Scott, which was published as ‘The end of an old song’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.9913-9915
Scope and Contents

According to a note on MS.9913, folio i verso, part II was written in 1931, part IV in 1943, and parts I, III and V in 1947. The manuscript (MS.9913) is incomplete and does not entirely correlate with the typescript (MS.9914). For example part V, chapter 1 of the typescript is different from the manuscript version, and the latter half of part III, chapter 6 is missing from the manuscript version and is included in the typescript version as part II, chapter 6.

Dates: 1931-[1954, or before].

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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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