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Correspondence and contributions relating to issue 22 of "Scotia Review", published spring 1997.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11469
Dates:
1996-1997.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Fonds
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, papers, bromides and negatives of 'Chapman' literary magazine.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10684/1-46
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.
Dates:
1981-1988, undated.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Peter and Betty Grant, with literary papers including manuscript of `Greenvoe` (1972) and typescript of `Hawkfall and other stories` (1974), with photographs of George Mackay Brown, his mother and friends.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13134
Dates:
1973-1996.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13722
Dates:
Circa 1946-1994.
Literary papers, broadcast texts and press cuttings of Robert (Bob) Crampsey.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12980
Scope and Contents
With some manuscripts and papers by Alexia F McAlpine and Anne Valentine.
Dates:
circa 1948-1998.
Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13471
Dates:
circa 1970-2012.
Papers concerning the 'Scotia Review', including corrected typescripts of short stories, poems, and articles submitted for publication, and photographs of contributers; with editorial correspondence, comprising 130 letters to David Morrison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7309 Box 1(1)-Box 4(3)
Dates:
1968-1977, undated.
Papers of and concerning Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing tpescripts of plays and short stories, associated correspondence, and other related material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8802/1-124
Dates:
1912-1978.
Papers of Katherine Cecil Thurston.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11378
Scope and Contents
Includes literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories and plays, and photographs.
Dates:
1903-1911.
Papers of Robert Kemp, including typescripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries; correspondence, including letters from James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie; diaries, accounts, press cuttings and photographs.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.294- is now Acc.7622.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1967.
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27256-27285
Scope and Contents
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Dates:
1866-1969, undated.