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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 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.

Organisational correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of short stories of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12108/1-4
Scope and Contents

Two files of correspondence of Alasdair Gray with the National Library of Scotland and the University of St Andrews, and some typescripts and manuscripts including short stories from 'Mavis Belfrage' and 'Unlikely stories, mostly'.

Dates: 1985-2001.

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 Alan Bold.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10529
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and short stories, undated, and 180 letters, 1979-1990, to Bold on literary matters, including his "MacDiamrid; a Critical Biography".

Dates: 1979-1990 and undated.

Papers of Alan Bold, David Morrison, and Tom Scott.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6329/1-9
Scope and Contents

Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.

With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.



Dates: 1972-1974 and undated.

Papers of Alasdair Gray relating to his novels, short stories and poetry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8799/1-81
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of:

'Unlikely stories, mostly' (Canongate, 1983);

'1982, Janine' (Cape, 1984);

'The fall of Kelvin Walker' (Canongate, 1985);

'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985);

'Old negatives' (Cape, 1989).

Dates: circa 1952-1984.

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 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 Andrew Greig.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11859
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and correspondence concerning his poetry, short stories, novels and mountaineering expedition books.

Dates: 1968-1997.

Papers of "Cencrastus".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10532
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories and poems, and business records including minute books, corrspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1980-1991.

Papers of "Chapman".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10533
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories, and poems, together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1976-1980.

Papers of "Chapman".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10477
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, with correspondence.

Dates: 1977-1978.

Papers of "Chapman".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11510
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1987-1989.

Papers of David M Black.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8864
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, articles, reviews lectures, with associated correspondence.

Dates: circa 1958-1980.

Papers of David Morrison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9616
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of poems and short stories.

With corrected typescripts of poems, 1977-1980, of Les Matheson.

Dates: 1975-1987.

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 Hamish Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11088
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts and manuscripts of short stories and works on travel and mountaineering, together with documents on adventure courses and Braehead School.

Dates: 1963-1993 and 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.

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Manuscripts. 38
Poetry. 32
Correspondence. 27
Novels. 26
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Names
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 7
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 5
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 4
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 3
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Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 3
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 3
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 2
Owens, Agnes (author) (1926-2014) 2
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Campbell, Marion, wife of John, of Kilberry, née Durand, b 1919 1
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 1
Claire, Regi, author, b. 1962 1
Corrie, Joseph, miner and playwright, 1894-1968 1
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Guthrie, John, Chief Medical Officer, Kuwait Oil Company, composer, 1913-1986 1
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 1
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson, biologist, 1892-1964 1
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor, 1856-1928 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967 1
Matheson, Les, poet, fl 1977-1980 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 1
McLeish, Richard James, surveyor for HM Customs and Excise, writer and poet, 1894-1965 1
McLeish, Richard James, surveyor for HM Customs and Excise, writer and poet, 1894-1965: recipient 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 1
Perryman, Kevin Alan, Editor of "Babel", b 1950 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993 1
Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993: recipient 1
Reid, James Macarthur, author and journalist, pseudonym Colin Walkinshaw, 1900-1970 1
Reid, John M, author, pseudonym 'David Toulmin', 1913-1998 1
Scotia Review, literary journal 1
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 1
Smith, Alexander McCall (author and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 1
Valentine, Anne, writer, fl 1948-1955 1
Weir, Thomas [Tom] (explorer, journalist and photographer) 1
Williamson, Crieff, author, b 1915 1
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