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Papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9243
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, autobiography articles, essays and reviews.

Dates: 1965-1985.

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 Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12082
Scope and Contents

Includes research material, manuscript and typescript of the novel, "Aiding and Abetting", manuscripts of short stories, and correspondence files, 1997-2000.

Dates: 1932-2001.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison and her family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5885
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. letter, undated, of Naomi Mitchison and three letters, undated, of J B S Haldane to Elizabeth S Haldane

2. letter, 1914, of an Oxford suffragette to Lord Haldane

3. letters, 1939-1957 and undated, of Gordon Bottomley, Neil Gunn, and J Leslie Mitchell to Naomi Mitchison

4. typescripts of short story, undated, of Naomi Mitchison, "Other Laws for the People", and paper, undated, on civilisation in Scotland, also by Mitchison.

Dates: 1914-1957 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.

Papers of Richard J McLeish.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9576
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems and short stories, and also two letters of Neil Gunn, on literary matters.

Dates: 1913-1962.

Papers of Robert Kemp.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7622
Scope and Contents

Including diaires, accounts, photographs and typesripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries.

With letters of, among others, James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie.

Dates: circa 1920-1967.

Papers of Stanley Cursiter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5451
Scope and Contents

Including sketch books, typescripts of short stories, typescript and printed articles, and correspondence.

Dates: 1906-1967.

Papers of the "Edinburgh Review".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9635
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1980-1987.

Papers of Wendy Wood.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9915
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.

Dates: circa 1930-1980.

Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents

Includes:

"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934

letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell

verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.

Dates: 1934-1964 and undated.

Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.

Dates: 1978 and undated.

Typescript, undated, of an autobiographical work of Margaret Mackenzie Scott, "Childhood of a Nobody", with other papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6620/1-6
Scope and Contents

Including typescripts of a short story, undated, and articles, 1923-1940.

Dates: 1923-1940 and undated.

Typescripts of 'Gentlemen of the west' and five short stories for 'Lean tales', by Agnes Owens.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8822/1-7
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of Agnes Owens for her novel 'Gentlemen of the west' (Polygon, 1984), and for several of the short stories which formed her section of 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985).

Dates: Undated.

Typescripts of literary works by Tom Hanlin (1907-1953).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27417-27425
Scope and Contents

Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.

Dates: 1942-1949, undated.

Typescripts of novellas, short stories and plays of Agnes Owens.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14086/1-61
Scope and Contents

This collection contains typescripts of the novellas and short stories of Agnes Owens, including many of the stories which formed part of 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985) and 'People like that' (Bloomsbury, 1996). Several short stories present in this collection were only published for the first time in 'The complete short stories' (Polygon, 2008).

Many of the typescripts have annotations and corrections in the hands of Agnes Owens, Alasdair Gray and others.

Dates: 2007, undated.

Typescripts of prose pieces by Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10866
Scope and Contents

Includes "A Plan for the Mound" and "Social Readjustment", together with five short stories on African themes.

Dates: circa 1960-1990.

Typescripts of works by Norman MacDonald, Lewis.

 File
Identifier: MS.14972
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic play for stage, titled ‘Shonnie’ (folio 1);(ii) Gaelic play for radio, titled ‘Buisneachd’ (folio 19);(iii) Gaelic play for stage, titled “An Ceistear ‘s am Bard ‘s na Boirionnaich” (Published under that title) (folio 64);(iv) English radio feature, titled ‘Iolaire’ (folio 91);(v) English short story, titled ‘Potatoes and Herring’ (folio 125);(vi) ‘The first Day of the Season’. Do...
Dates: [1971, or before]-[1975, or before.]

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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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