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Corrected typescript drafts and page proofs of a novel of Robert Nye, "Falstaff" (1976), with associated manuscript notes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7076
Scope and Contents

With corrected typescript versions of the play of Robert Nye and John Abulafia, "Falstaff" (1977).

Dates: circa 1976-circa 1977.

Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11050
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.

Dates: circa 1955-1976.

Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of Mollie Hunter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11073/1-122
Scope and Contents

Includes editorial correspondence, typescripts and proofs of novels, and some book jackets and illustrations.

Dates: 1960-1993, undated.

Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).

Dates: 2001-2012.

Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12135/1-1062
Scope and Contents Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates: 1937-2001, undated.

Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1948-1991 and undated.

Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27287-27373
Scope and Contents

Nancy Brysson Morrison was the sister of Margaret M Morrison, who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost', and T J Morrison, the novelist and script-writer. As well as publishing under her own name, she wrote numerous romances under the pseudonym 'Christine Strathern' between 1942 and 1959, but they are not represented among these papers.

Dates: 1918-1986, undated.

Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates: 1951-2011.

Literary papers of Alison Fell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12394/1-85
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates: 1971-2001.

Literary papers of George Blake.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11930
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, typescripts of novels published and unpublished, play-scripts, a diary of a visit to the United States, first copies of published works of fiction and non-fiction. Also includes notes on Blake, copies of articles by him and correspondence and papers of Christopher Dalgleish accumulated in the course of an uncompleted dissertation.

Dates: 20th century.

Literary papers of Janet Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11109
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1928-1990.

Literary papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11089
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.

Dates: 1950-1994.

Literary papers of Norman Malcolm Macdonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11876
Scope and Contents

Includes playscripts, a heavily corrected typescript of an historical novel "The Eternal Surge", correspondence and reviews.

Dates: 1974-1999.

Literary papers of Regi Claire.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13397
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, research and correspondence relating to the following books: Inside-Outside (1998); The Beauty Room (2002); Fighting It (2009); The Waiting (2012).

Dates: c. 1999-2012.

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Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 8
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 7
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 3
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 3
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Mackay, Colin, poet, 1951-2003 2
Mair, Henry, Founder of the Scottish Open Poetry Cup Competition, b 1945 2
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 2
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 1
Caimbeul, Aonghas Phàdruig (poet and writer) 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Claire, Regi, author, b. 1962 1
Columba, Saint, monastic founder, c 527-597 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fletcher, David, literary agent, David Fletcher Associates, fl 1979-2001 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Gordon, J M, author of "Fanny Campbell", fl 1900-1998 1
Graham, Angus, forester and architectural historian, 1892-1980 1
Graham, Maggie, author, fl 2000 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Jackson, Marshall, Edinburgh, fl 1983 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Jenkins, John Robin, novelist, 1912-2005 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Lemaire, Angela, artist, engraver, b 1944 1
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 1
MacDonald, Mary, née Doyle, wife of Thomas Joseph Douglas MacDonald, author , 1911-1999: recipient 1
Macdonald, Norman Malcolm, writer and dramatist, 1927-2000 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Massie, Allan Johnstone (Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist) 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McLean, Allan Campbell, novelist, 1922-1989 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 1
Murison, David D, lexicographer, 1914-1997 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Owens, Agnes (author) (1926-2014) 1
Pound, Ezra Loomis, poet, 1885-1972 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Robertson, James Francis, poet and novelist, b 1958 1
Ross, Ethel, niece of Edwin Muir, poet, née Thorburn, fl 1921-1976. 1
Scott, Margaret Heather, wife of Tom, poet and editor, née Fretwell, b ? 1934: recipient 1
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 1
Scott, Thomas Ross, physician and playwright, fl 1913-1948 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 1
Stanford, Derek, poet and critic, 1918-2008 1
Stokoe, William Milne, author of "Sawtooth Showdown", fl 1959 1
Tennant, Emma Christina, novelist, b 1937 1
Tennant, Emma Christina, novelist, b 1937: recipient 1
Thomson, David Cleghorn-, Scottish Regional Director of the BBC, fl 1923-1971 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 1
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