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Manuscripts, typescripts and printed books of Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5665 Box 1(1)-Box 12(5)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, plays, translations, and historical and critical works.

Dates: Circa 1923-1971, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of work by Alexander Scott (1920-1989).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26474-26481
Scope and Contents

Alexander Scott was educated in Aberdeen, and after service in the army during the Second World War, became a lecturer in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He was the editor of the ‘Saltire Review’, 1954-1957, served on a number of literary committees, and edited work by William Soutar and Sydney Goodsir Smith, among others. His own literary work consisted of poetry, drama, and criticism.

Dates: 1948-1970, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and correspondence of Alasdair Gray, mainly concerning 'Working legs', as well as other works.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11655/1-34
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive working papers and proofs for 'Working legs', including cast notes and publicity materials, as well as papers relating to the 1997 editions of 'Why Scots should rule Scotland' and 'Unlikely stories, mostly'.

Dates: 1966-1997.

Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.

Dates: 1933-1961, undated.

Papers of Alexander Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8348
Scope and Contents

Including letters, notebooks, diaries and corrected typescripts of plays, short stories, poems, novels, and articles.

Correspondents include James Bridie, Neil Gunn, and Robert McLellan.

Dates: 1928-1981.

Papers of Alexander Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12236
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, noteboooks, and manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, fiction, plays, autiobiographical and critical works.

Dates: 1931-1981.

Papers of and concerning Alexander Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10652
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of plays, short stories and poems, with correspondence.

Dates: 1929-1987.

Papers of and concerning Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10282/1-69
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.

Dates: 1916-1977.

Papers of and concerning O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11309
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, articles, broadcast talks and biography.

Dates: 1904-1988.

Papers of David Morrison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9803
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of three plays and a short story.

Dates: 1988.

Papers of George Friel.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8797
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, together with associated correspondence.

Dates: 1932-1974.

Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26941-26972
Scope and Contents

George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.

Dates: 1951-1970, undated.

Papers of James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9887
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, theatre programmes and manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, films and short stories.

Dates: 1928-1951.

Papers of Janet Paisley.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(1)-Box 6(46)-was TD.3720
Scope and Contents

This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.

Dates: 1981-2017.

Papers of Katherine Cecil Thurston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11378
Scope and Contents

Includes literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories and plays, and photographs.

Dates: 1903-1911.

Papers of Morley Jamieson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9825
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of a novel and two plays.

Dates: circa 1950-1988.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6537/1-5
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. corrected typescripts of "Prisoners of War", 1914, and "Barley, Honey and Wine", circa 1923

2. plays

3. letter, undated, of George Bernard Shaw to Mitchison, commenting on "Barley, Honey and Wine".

Dates: 1914-circa 1923 and undated.

Papers of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10360
Scope and Contents

Indcludes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, architectural notes and drawings and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1990.

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Names
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 7
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 6
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 4
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 4
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 4
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Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 3
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 3
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Downie, Anne, playwright, b 1939 2
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Macdonald, Norman Malcolm, writer and dramatist, 1927-2000 2
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 2
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 2
Purves, David, poet and playwright, b 1924 2
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Campbell, Austin, film director, fl 1960-1971 1
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975. 1
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 1
Donald, Henry, playwright, fl 1974-1986 1
Dunlop, Agnes Mary Robertson, author, pseudonyms Elisabeth Kyle and Jan Ralston, b 1901 1
Dunlop, William, playwright, b 1951 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
Eveling, Harry Stanley, playwright, 1925-2008 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Fraser, Olive, poet, 1909-1977 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh 1
Gielgud, Lewis, Lieutenant-Colonel, Head of Bureau of Personnel and Management, UNESCO, 1894-1953 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hendry, Joy Mclaggan, Editor of 'Chapman', b 1953 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 1
Kay, William, writer and broadcaster, b 1951 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Leigh, Vivien, actress, 1913-1967 1
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 1
Macintosh, Denis, playwright, fl 1960-1990 1
Mackenzie, Donald, playwright, 1913-1999 1
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McLean, Duncan, author and playwright, b 1964 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Milligan, John, BBC Scotland, fl 1969-1999 1
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 1
Mortimer, Colin, playwright, fl 1978-1998 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 1
Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier (created 1972), actor and director, 1907-1989 1
Orr, Robert Kemsley, composer, 1909-2006 1
Owens, Agnes (author) (1926-2014) 1
Paisley, Janet Violet (poet and playwright) 1
Parker, William Mathie, author, 1891-1973 1
Prebble, John (writer and historian) (1915-2001) 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Robertson, Alexander, co-author of play, The Singing Wood", fl 1957 1
Scott, Alexander Mackie, poet and editor, 1920-1989 1
Scott, Robert Falcon, Captain, Royal Navy, Antarctic explorer, 1868-1912 1
Scott, Thomas Ross, physician and playwright, fl 1913-1948 1
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 1
Silver, Robert Simpson, James Watt Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow, 1913-1997 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
Tannahill, Andrew, poet and translator, 1900-1986 1
Taylor, Cecil Philip, playwright, 1929-1981 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 1
Veitch, Thomas, Rector of St George's and St Paul's, Edinburgh, 1912-1999 1
Winged Horse Touring Productions Ltd, theatre company 1
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