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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

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Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.

Dates: Circa 1926-1997.

Drafts and proofs of film scripts, short stories, articles and illustrations of Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12557/1-21
Scope and Contents The largest portion of this collection is taken up by drafts of film scripts for 'Poor things', co-written by Alasdair Gray and Sandy Johnson, director, with comments and changes of both, as well as comments and changes of Iain Brown, producer, and Brian Gibson, another director who was later attached to the project.There are also some files of correspondence and drafts of articles and illustrations for other projects, as well as typescripts and proofs of the short story...
Dates: 1988-2003.

Eleven playscripts; with three television scripts and parts of scripts mainly relating to Scottish Television productions.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13579
Scope and Contents

A small collection of theatre and television scripts, 1967-1975 and undated, gathered by Michael Barry, writer and producer, when he was working in Scottish television and theatre during that period. With a copy of Barry’s play, ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’.

Dates: 1967-1975, 2003, and undated.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1968-1983.

Letters to W R Aitken.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7506
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Helen B Cruickshank, Duncan Glen, Benno Schotz and Tom Scott, on literary matters.

With script of radio talk, 1962, of W R Aitken, "The Peripatetic Librarian", with associated correspondence.

Dates: 1959-1967.

Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents

Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.

Dates: Circa 1966-2013.

Literary papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, radio scripts and correspondence of Kathleen Annie Fidler.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8078/1-880
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: 1878-1980.

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 Ronald Frame.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12045
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of short stories, novels, plays, and works for radio.

Dates: circa 1980-2000.

Literary papers of Stewart Conn.

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Identifier: Acc.12098/1-57
Scope and Contents Literary papers, 1961-1999, of Stewart Conn (b. 1936), a poet and playwright who was for many years a drama producer for BBC Radio Scotland. These papers includes correspondence, typescripts and a small number of manuscript drafts of poetry, and scripts of plays and adaptations for stage, radio and television.Many of the scripts in this collection have never been published, but it includes manuscripts and typescripts relating to the following published works: 'The Chinese tower'...
Dates: 1961-2005.

Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12937
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1964.

Literary papers of Tom Pow.

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Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1969-2003.

Manuscript and typescripts of novels and short stories by Eona Macnicol.

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Identifier: MS.19706
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript with manuscript corrections of the novel ‘Colum of Derry’, 1954, dated 1946 by the author, Eona Mcnicol (Folio 1.) (ii) Three pages of corrected typescript of ‘Lamp in the night wind’, 1957. (Folio 128.) (iii) Corrected typescript, being the second draft of 'Grey boy', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, volume 301 (1967), pages 537-547. The last page is missing. (Folio 132.) (iv) Final typescript and broadcast script of 'A night of rain, 1968....
Dates: 1946-[1969, or before.]

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British Broadcasting Corporation 15
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 8
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 4
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 4
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
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Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 3
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 3
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 3
7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Macrae, John Duncan Graham, actor, 1905-1967 2
Royal Lyceum Theatre Company Ltd, Edinburgh 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 2
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Alexander, Donald, documentary filmmaker, 1913-1993 1
Baker, Jane, scriptwriter, fl 1968-1970 1
Bannerman, Helen Brodie Cowan, children's writer, née Watson, 1862-1946 1
Bannerman, William Burney, Major-General, 1858-1924 1
Barry, Michael, writer and producer, b 1942 1
Barry, Michael, writer and producer, b 1942: former owner 1
Bell, Alan Scott, library and literary consultant, 1942-2018 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Boyd, Edward, playwright and scriptwriter, 1916-1989 1
Braehead Mountaineering Club 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Home Service, public service broadcaster 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Scotland 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Burnaby, Anne, screenwriter, fl 1952-1957 1
Böll, Heinrich, author, 1917-1985 1
Campbell, Austin, film director, fl 1960-1971 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland, Itu Leper Colony, Nigeria 1
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 1
Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow 1
Clifford, Bertram, electrical engineer, 1877-1954 1
Clifford, Jo, playwright, b 1950 1
Close Theatre, Glasgow 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Cooper, Budge, documentary filmmaker 1
Cooper, June, Pittenweem, fl 1994 1
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 1
Craig, Bill, writer, 1930-2002 1
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 1
Dallmeyer, Andrew (playwright, theatre director and actor) 1
Dawn Cine Group (cine club) 1
Donald, Henry, playwright, fl 1974-1986 1
Dundee Repertory Theatre 1
Dunlop, Isobel V S, Secretary of the Saltire Music Group, b 1901 1
Dunlop, William, playwright, b 1951 1
Edinburgh Film Productions (Film Production Company) 1
Elder, Michael Aiken, actor and writer, 1931-2004 1
Erskine, Thomas Alexander, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer, 1732-1781 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fidler, Kathleen Annie (afterwards Goldie, author and headmistress) 1
Fifth Estate Theatre Company 1
Films of Scotland Committee 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Gairdner, Charles Campbell, poet and author, fl 1955 1
Gallus Stage Productions, theatre company 1
Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh 1
Gerson, Jack, author and scriptwriter, 1928-2012 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) 1
Gray, John, broadcaster, 1918-2006 1
Gray, Sir Alexander, Knight, Professor of Political Economy, University of Edinburgh, 1882-1968 1
Gunn, Gilbert, writer and director, 1912-1967 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hamilton, James Hay, playwright, fl 1975-1977 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hewson, Andrew, literary agent, fl. 1981-2016 1
Hignett, Sean, playwright and novelist, fl 1971-1987 1
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 1
Jeffs, Tim, painter, 1904-1975 1
Johnson, David Charles, musician, 1942-2009 1
Kay, Ada F, writer, pseudonym A J Stewart, b 1929 1
Kelsall, Moultrie Rowe, actor and producer, 1904-1980 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Lincoln, Carolyn Stewart, writer, b. 1943 1
Low, Bet, artist, 1924-2007 1
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 1
MacDougall, Ian, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society, b 1933 1
MacDougall, Roger, playwright and screenwriter, 1910-1993 1
MacKinnon, Allan, screenwriter, 1912-1955 1
MacLeod, Donald, Pipe Major, 1916-1982 1
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 1
Macarthur, Edith, actor, b. 1926 1
Macdonald, Andrew Buchanan, Superintendent of the Itu Leper Colony, 1892-1970 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackenzie, Robert F, Headteacher, Braehead Secondary School , 1910-1987 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
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