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Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7085 Box 1(1)-Box 32
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.

Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.

Dates: 1938-1973, undated.

Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.

Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).

 File
Identifier: MS.19609
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1846-1919, undated, chiefly addressed to John H Balfour-Browne. They had been kept as a collection of autographs and include fragments of letters and signatures (which have not been indexed). The correspondence mostly concerns Balfour-Browne's literary work and legal matters. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript with manuscript corrections and newspaper cutting of 'A Criticism and a Reminiscence' by Balfour-Browne, published in the...
Dates: 1814-1919, 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 of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11108
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1931-1989.

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.

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

Microfilm of talks, [?1965-?1969], of Sir James B Thomson; photographs, 19th century-[before 1987], of and concerning John MacArthur Russell and his family; and, an account, 1783, of East Indies caves.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.978
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Typescripts of talks, [?1965-?1969], of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia (Acc.9426);

Photographs, 19th century-[before 1987], of and concerning John MacArthur Russell and his family (Acc.9483);

'Account of the Caves of Kennery, Ambola, and Elephanta in the East Indies; in a letter from a gentleman in Bombay to his friend in England, 1783' (MS.3966).

Dates: 1783-[before 1987].

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3836

Papers of and concerning Dr John W Oliver.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9120
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of lectures, addresses and radio broadcasts, mostly on Scottish literature.

Dates: 1938-1958.

Papers of and concerning Joseph Hislop.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7080
Scope and Contents

Including notes, sketches, typescripts of broadcast talks, photographs, correspondence, press cuttings and concert and opera programmes.

Dates: 1900-1975.

Papers of and concerning Lord Boyd Orr.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6545
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, articles, reviews, broadcast talks, and memorandums, with correspondence and associated printed items.

Dates: 1938-1971.

Papers of and concerning O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11309
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, articles, broadcast talks and biography.

Dates: 1904-1988.

Papers of Arthur Woodburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6276
Scope and Contents

Concerning his Parliamentary Bill to facilitate the formation of a common European language.

Dates: 1962-1963.

Papers of David Cairns.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9326
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, addresses, and poems, transcripts of diaries and correspondence.

Dates: 1926-1986.

Papers of Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10155/1-98
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, articles, broadcast talks and poems, with correspondence.

Dates: 1902-1974 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.

With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.

Dates: 1935-1987 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.

Dates: 1946-1975.

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Correspondence. 29
Manuscripts. 27
Articles. 21
Poetry. 14
Letters. Correspondence. 12
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Photographs. 11
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 10
Diaries. 9
Drafts. Documents. 8
Lectures. 8
Copies. Derivative objects. 7
Notes. 7
Essays. 6
Notebooks. 6
Reviews. Document genre 6
Accounts. 5
Novels. 5
Plays. 5
Obituaries. 4
Photocopies. 4
Short stories. 4
Memorandums. 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Reports. 3
Biographies. 2
Documentaries. 2
Excerpts. 2
Financial records. 2
Fragments. 2
Lists. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Pamphlets. 2
Publications. 2
Reports 2
Reviews. Document genre. 2
Rules. Instructions. 2
Transcripts 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Administrative records. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Annotations. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
Bibliographies. 1
Calculations. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 1
Cartoons. Humourous images. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Circulars. Fliers. 1
Commonplace books. 1
Cookbooks. 1
Declarations. 1
Deeds. Legal documents. 1
Documents. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Exercise books. 1
Extracts. 1
Histories. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Letter books. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Malaysia. Asia. nation. Longitude: 112.5000. Latitude: 2.5000. 1
Memorials. Legal documents. 1
Microfilms. 1
Minute books. 1
Minutes. Administrative records. 1
Negatives. Photographs. 1
Optical discs. 1
Periodicals. 1
Portraits. 1
Postcards. 1
Prefaces. 1
Prints. Visual works. 1
Programmes 1
Receipts. Financial records. 1
Research notes. 1
Sales records. Financial records. 1
Scrolls. Information artefacts. 1
Sermons 1
Signatures. Names 1
Sketchbooks 1
Sketches 1
Sketches. 1
Slides. Photographs. 1
Snapshots. 1
Stats. Copies. 1
Syllabi. 1
Tonga. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: -175.0000. Latitude: -20.0000. 1
Transcripts. 1
Travel journals. 1
Treatises. 1
Videocassettes. 1
Warrants. Permissions. 1
Wills. 1
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Language
English 43
Undetermined 9
 
Names
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
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Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Arbuckle, Sir William Forbes, Knight, Secretary, Scottish Education Department, 1902-1966 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
British Broadcasting Corporation 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Craig, Robert, Principal of University of Rhodesia, 1917-1995 1
Cranna, John, Scottish Unionist Association, fl 1937-1953 1
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone, novelist, 1782-1854 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gray, Gordon John, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, 1910-1993 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, Knight, General, 1853-1947 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 1
Irvine, James Eccles Malise, Circuit Judge, 1925-2007 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
MacEwen, Sir Alexander Malcolm, Knight, solicitor, 1875-1941 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
McIntyre, Ian James, writer and broadcaster, b 1931 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Munro, Neil, author, pseudonym Hugh Foulis, 1864-1930 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Library of Scotland 1
Oliver, John Walter, Principal Lecturer in English, Moray House Training College, Edinburgh, 1893-1957 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971. 1
Pound, Ezra Loomis, poet, 1885-1972 1
Scottish National Party 1
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 1
Scottish Unionist Association, political association 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Taylor, Wilfred (journalist and author) 1
The Robert Burns World Federation Limited 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 1
Veitch, Thomas, Rector of St George's and St Paul's, Edinburgh, 1912-1999 1
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 1
Will, William, Director of Allied Newspapers Ltd, 1866-1958 1
Will, William, Director of Allied Newspapers Ltd, 1866-1958: recipient 1
Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 1
Wright, Ronald William Vernon Selby, Minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh, 1908-1995 1
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