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115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10488
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.

Dates: 1934-1978.

Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1889-1890
Scope and Contents

Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.

Dates: 1833-1910, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts and research papers of Tom Leonard.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14605/1-42
Scope and Contents This collection of the papers of the Glasgow poet Tom Leonard includes manuscript and typescript drafts of his poetry, as well as research papers and notes concerning his interests in literary theory, literary history and the Middle East.The poetry drafts include many works for inclusion in his 'Outside the narrative' (Word Power Books, 2009), as well as audio and visual elements for his performance piece 'My name is Tom' (Good Elf Publications, 1978). There are also files of...
Dates: 1817-2016, undated.

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.22

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

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 and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10173- is now MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1927-1978.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7147
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, essays, bibliographies and other literary work.

With Duncan Glen, "Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance", and poems of, and essays concerning, Hugh Macdiarmid.

Dates: 1962-1977.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9045
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, a novel, autobiography, essays and articles.

Dates: 1964-1985.

Papers of Francis George Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9014
Scope and Contents

Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.

With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.

Dates: 1925-1957 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.

With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.

Dates: 1935-1987 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.

Dates: 1946-1975.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11175
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.

Dates: 1948-1974 and undated.

The Melrosian Annual, 1888

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13258
Scope and Contents Manuscript volume consisting of essays, short stories, anecdotes and verse contributed by past and present members of staff of the firm of Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers. Many of the contributions are reminiscences of the shop and its customers including Professor John Stuart Blackie, f.198, Edinburgh and society. The volume is illustrated with a few pen and ink drawings.Inscribed W.R.M. on inside front cover. With note at the front affirming that this volume...
Dates: 1888, 1917

Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents

Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.

Dates: 2nd half of 19th century.

Works of John H Balfour Browne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.

Dates: circa 1880-circa 1920.

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Manuscripts. 12
Typescripts. 10
Correspondence. 7
Articles. 5
Letters. Correspondence. 5
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Language
English 16
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
Undetermined 2
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1