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Letters to Joseph Macleod from various correspondents.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12964/1-19
Scope and Contents This collection of letters was found by his family long after the National Library of Scotland had acquired the bulk of Joseph Macleod's archive in 1992. It is not quite clear why this correspondence was filed separately by Joseph Macleod, but much of it is personal, from family and friends. Some correspondents have proved unidentifiable during the somewhat hasty compilation of this inventory; any further information or corrections will be gratefully received by the Manuscripts Division,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1917-1955, undated.

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, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates: 1885-2019, undated.

Literary papers of Muriel Spark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11621/1-217
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, short stories and a novel, "Reality and Dreams".

Dates: Circa 1956-1997.

Literary works and other papers of Elspeth Davie.

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Identifier: Acc.10631/1-40
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts of short stories and a novel.

Dates: 1871-1992.

Manuscripts and papers of and concerning the novelist, Neil Munro (1863-1930).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26901-26937
Scope and Contents

Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

Dates: 1863-1964.

Papers and notes of Frank Roydon Richards, mostly concerning the decipherment of the Linear B script, with material concerning other cuneiform scripts.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9094/1-89
Scope and Contents

Frank Roydon Richards, rector of Glasgow Academy from 1932 to 1959, devoted much of his retirement to the study of Linear B and especially the methods used by Michael Ventris, to whose decipherment he took a sceptical attitude. For comparative purposes he also studied the methods used by the decipherers of Hittite and other cuneiform scripts. The bulk of the material consists of transcripts of texts and summaries of books and articles, with critical comments by Richards interspersed.

Dates: 1966-1975, undated.

Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.

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Identifier: Acc.8695/1-336
Scope and Contents This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: 1786-1983.

Papers, including correspondence, radio plays and dramatisations, of Ian Sherwood Munro; with material relating to his publication 'Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (Edinburgh, 1966).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4883/1-21
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

original manuscript and corrected typescript of "Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (Edinburgh, 1966); manuscript and broadcast scripts of eight radio plays and dramatisations, 1962-1968; 16 letters, 1959-1968, to Ian S Munro, correspondents including C M Grieve and Willa Muir.

Dates: 1959-1968, undated.

Papers, including journals, scrapbooks, press cutting books, photographs and other items of Sir Robert Heatlie Scott and Lady Rosamond Aeliz Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8181 Box 1(1)-Box 2(20)
Scope and Contents

The collection relates particularly to Sir Robert Scott's wartime imprisonment in Singapore (1942-1945), and to his period as Commissioner-General in South East Asia.

Dates: 1923-1982, undated.

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, mostly professional, of David Hope, Lord Hope of Craighead, with related ephemera.

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Identifier: Acc.13568/1-90
Scope and Contents James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, KT PC FRSE, senior judge, first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, was born on 27 June 1938. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Rugby School. After national service as an officer with the Seaforth Highlanders (1957-1959), becoming a Lieutenant, he was an open scholar at St John's College, Cambridge University, where he read Classics (1959-1962). On his return to...
Dates: 1953-2014.

Papers of Alan Bissett relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13720/1-2
Scope and Contents

Includes typed and handwritten drafts of articles and spoken word pieces relating to the Scottish Indepdence Referendum 2014; polling card for 18 September 2014; and letter relating to National Collective's 'Cultural Ambassador' scheme.

Dates: [?2012-?2014]

Papers of and concerning the poet Edwin Muir (1887-1959).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19651-19674
Dates: [1925 or before]-1961, undated.

Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert. Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates: [Circa 1925]-1987, undated.

Papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25161-25174
Scope and Contents Charles Grant was born in Mauritius in 1749, was brought up in Normandy and went into the army. He was created Vicomte de Vaux in 1777, and Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint Louis in 1790. As a result of the French Revolution he went into exile in 1790, first in Jersey and later in London in 1793. Here he put himself forward for an administrative post in Canada and tried to raise an emigre regiment to be commanded by himself. His papers reflect his career and interests, and he made use of some...
Dates: 1676-1824, undated.

Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

Dates: 1918-1989, undated.

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Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 2
African Lake Company Limited, logistics and shipping 1
Ballantyne, John William (physician) 1
Bannerman, David Anne (wife of Reverend James Bannerman) 1
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Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Bruce, Alexander Low, Deputy-Chairman of William Younger and Company, brewers, 1839-1893 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Chalmers, Esther Barbara (daughter of Sir David Patrick, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast) 1
Chalmers, Sir David Patrick, Knight, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast, d 1899 1
Chisholm, Agnes, Edinburgh, fl 1888-1936 1
Church of Scotland 1
Clunie, James, politician, 1889-1974 1
Clunie, James, politician, 1889-1974: recipient 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Dallas, family, Nairn 1
Dandie, James Naughton, Stirling, solicitor, fl 1914-1987 1
Davidson, Andrew Nevile, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, 1899-1976 1
Davie, Elspeth Mary, novelist and art teacher, née Dryer, 1919-1995 1
Dejardin, Lucie, socialist, 1875-1945 1
Dunn, Ian Campbell, lesbian and gay rights campaigner, townplanner, 1943-1998 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Fleming, Marjorie, poet and writer, fl 1916-1969 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Friel, Isobel (wife of George Friel, novelist) 1
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 1
Graham, John Anderson, missionary at Kalimpong, 1861-1942 1
Graham, Katherine (missionary, nee McConachie) 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) 1
Hope, James Arthur David, Baron Hope of Craighead, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, b 1938. 1
Imperial British East Africa Company, land manangement company 1
Irvine, Archibald Clive, medical missionary, Kenya, 1893-1974 1
John Bartholomew and Son Ltd (Edinburgh, publishers) 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kirk, Helen (wife of Sir John, consul general at Zanzibar, née Cooke) 1
Kirk, Sir John, Knight, naturalist and political agent, 1832-1922 1
Lindsay, Maurice (poet and writer) 1
Lorimer, James, Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh, 1818-1890 1
Lorimer, John Henry, 1856-1936 (painter) 1
Lorimer, family, of Kellie 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
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Macdonald, John (Lieutenant-Colonel, military engineer, son of Flora Macdonald) 1
Mackay, Lucinda Louise, Lady, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchcape (artist) (b 1941) 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Malcolm, Ian Zachary, Sir (politician) 1
McAlpine, Morag (librarian) (1946-2014) 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Meikle, Henry William, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1880-1958 1
Morrison, Hubert Peter, President of Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, publisher, d 1971 1
Muirhead, Roland Eugene, Chairman of the Scottish National Party, 1868-1964 1
Munro, Ian Sherwood (author) 1
Plumb, Isabella (Church of Scotland missionary) 1
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 1
Purdie, James (superintendent of Dr Graham's Homes, Kalimpong) 1
Quigley, Sir William George Henry, Knight, Chairman, Short Brothers, b 1929 1
Rankin, Ian James (crime writer) 1
Renton, Ian Paterson (Minister of St Colm's, Edinburgh) 1
Richards, Frank Roydon, Rector of Glasgow Academy, 1899-1978 1
Roberts, Edward Frederick Denis, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1927-1990 1
Scott, Rosamond Aeliz, wife of Sir Robert H, née Dewar-Durie, b 1911 1
Scott, Sir Robert Heatlie, Knight, Lord-Lieutenant of Tweeddale (formerly of Peebleshire), 1905-1982 1
Scottish National Party 1
Scottish Patriots, cross-party campaigning organisation 1
Sim, William, colour manufacturer, b 1843 1
Smith, Janet Buchanan Adam- (author and journalist) (1905-1999) 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 1
Stewart, Donald James (politician) 1
Thomas Nelson and Sons (publisher) 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000. 1
Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 1
Wordie, Sir James Mann, Knight, Master of St John's College, Cambridge, 1889-1962 1
Workman, Fanny Bullock (geographer and mountaineer) 1
Workman, William Hunter (physician and mountaineer) 1
Wyon, Olive, theologian, 1881-1966 1
Yeaman, Francis Cameron (secretary of the SNP Edinburgh branch) 1
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