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Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.
This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.
Acc.12015/57 gives biographical details on individual correspondents.
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
Business records of A & C Black relating to the works of Sir Walter Scott.
Concerning the publication of the works of Sir Walter Scott, the copyrights of the Waverley Novels and to the Centenary celebrations of 1871 and 1932.
Copy of review, by Martin Gostwick, of "Hugh Miller and the Controversies of Victorian Science", edited by Michael Shortland.
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, articles and reviews, of Nigel Tranter.
Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, topographical works, and articles, together with correspondence comprising around 2000 letters.
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Correspondence and research papers of Janet Adam Smith.
Written, collected for and concerning Janet Adam Smith`s "John Buchan: A Biography" (London, 1965).
Correspondence concering Naomi Mitchison, "The Delicate Fire" and "The Moral Basis of Politics".
With cuttings of reviews, 1938, of "The Moral Basis of Politics".
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.
Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.
With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.
Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The ends of our tethers', by Alasdair Gray, with some related cuttings and correspondence.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of Gavin Ewart, poet.
Papers and correspondence of Dudley Sommer concerning his biography of Lord Haldane.
Papers and photographic plates collected by James Bell Salmond for the 1st and 2nd editions of his ‘Wade in Scotland’; with correspondence and press cuttings concerning the book.
Papers, including correspondence, research notes, press cuttings and printed materials, of Dr Sue Innes, mostly concerning her research into the subjects of citizenship, women and gender studies.
The collection contains correspondence, manuscript and typescript research notes, annotated typescripts of research papers, newscuttings and printed materials. Most of the material is undated.
Papers of and concerning Francis George Scott, composer.
Papers of and concerning Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing tpescripts of plays and short stories, associated correspondence, and other related material.
Papers of James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, concerning administration in Wei Hai Wei, and Chinese art and literature.
Papers of Peter Ritchie Calder, Baron Ritchie-Calder.
Includes press cuttings and correspondence.