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20 notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10461
Scope and Contents

Literary and personal notes and the typescript of "Yet it shall be Tempest Tost", an account of an experiment with mescalin during the 1960s.

Dates: 1977-1990 and undated.

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.

 File
Identifier: MS.16483
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: [1949], [1949, or after.]

Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.

With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.

And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.

Dates: 1890-1973, undated.

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 and papers of Robert Duncan Macleod, editor of the ‘Library review’.

 File
Identifier: MS.10330
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Corrected typescripts and manuscripts of articles by Frederick Niven and others, published in the ‘Library review’, volumes iii-iv (1932-1934), and in ‘Modern Scottish literature’, edited by R D Macleod (Glasgow, 1933), pages 13-16. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence between Macleod and L Stanley Jast, 1930-1944, concerning libraries and Jast's contributions to the ‘Library review’. It includes the manuscript of an article by Jast, 'The man...
Dates: 1930-1944.

Correspondence between Lewis Spence and R E Muirhead.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3565
Scope and Contents

With an offprint of article of Spence.

Dates: 1927-1930.

Correspondence between Steuart Campbell and the editor of "Free Inquiry", New York.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11890
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescript article entitled "On Morality".

Dates: 1984-1986.

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.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

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, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates: 1896-2006.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, 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.

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Correspondence. 61
Manuscripts. 54
Poetry. 47
Reviews. Document genre 21
Short stories. 21
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Speeches. Documents. 21
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 19
Diaries. 18
Letters. Correspondence. 17
Notes. 17
Drafts. Documents. 16
Photographs. 16
Notebooks. 15
Plays. 12
Essays. 10
Lectures. 10
Reviews. Document genre. 9
Copies. Derivative objects. 8
Novels. 8
Proofs. Printed matter. 8
Proofs. printed matter 7
Autobiographies. 6
Photocopies. 6
Accounts. 5
Publications. 5
Annotations. 4
Financial records. 4
Histories. 4
Offprints. 4
Pamphlets. 4
Translations. Documents. 4
Biographies. 3
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 3
Excerpts. 3
Minute books. 3
Obituaries. 3
Professional papers. 3
Reports. 3
Bibliographies. 2
Documents. 2
Fragments. 2
Lectionaries. 2
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Memorandums. 2
Negatives. Photographs. 2
Newsletters. Serials. 2
Personal papers. 2
Prefaces. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Research notes. 2
Rules. Instructions. 2
Slides. Photographs. 2
Sound recordings. 2
Transcripts 2
Travel journals. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Agendas. Administrative records. 1
Albums. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 1
Books 1
Broadcasts. Events. 1
Calculations. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Christmas cards. 1
Comedies. 1
Cookbooks. 1
Cumbernauld (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - North Lanarkshire. Longitude: -3.9833. Latitude: 55.9500. 1
Declarations. 1
Dedications. Documents. 1
Diagrams. 1
Dictionaries. 1
Drafts. Negotiable instruments. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Ephemera. 1
Exercise books. 1
Extracts. 1
Fiction. 1
Fliers. Printed matter. 1
Genealogies. 1
Genealogy. 1
Handbooks. Document genres. 1
Leaflets. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Memoirs. 1
Memorials. Legal documents. 1
Microfilms. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Nationalism. Scottish. 1
Novellas. 1
Optical discs. 1
Order forms. 1
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Language
English 91
Undetermined 23
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 1
 
Names
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 4
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 4
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 4
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
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Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Scottish National Party 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Scotia Review, literary journal 2
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Akros Publications 1
Anderson, Iain Fleming, historian, b 1902 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Boag, William G F, Assistant to the Keeper, Scottish United Services Museum, 1923-1992 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Campbell, Steuart, science writer, b 1937 1
Craigen, James Mark, politician and author, b 1938 1
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Fraser, George Macdonald, journalist, novelist and screen-writer, 1925-2008 1
Free Inquiry, New York, secular humanist journal 1
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008: recipient 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Halliday, James, author, historian and politician, 1927-2013 1
Home, Henry, Lord Kames, Senator of the College of Justice, 1696-1782 1
Innes, Susan Katriona (journalist and feminist historian) 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Law, Alexander, HM Inspector of Schools, 1903-1995 1
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Martin, Burns, author of "Allan Ramsay: a Study of His Life and Works", fl 1900-1945 1
McKay, Helen S, writer, fl 1934-1940 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
McNeill, Leila K, Edinburgh, fl 1968-1969 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Milton, Nan, Avonbridge, fl 1965 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muirhead, Roland Eugene, Chairman of the Scottish National Party, 1868-1964 1
Murray, Isobel Mary, Emeritus Professor, Modern Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen, b 1939: collector 1
National Party of Scotland 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
O'Rockie, John, author of "Communism in Theory and Practice", fl 1918-1949 1
Ogilvie, John, Minister of Cumbernauld, b 1865 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
Paterson, Janet C, writer on Scottish crafts, fl 1960-1980 1
Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, journalist, naval intelligence officer and genealogist, 1883-1969 1
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Reid, John M, author, pseudonym 'David Toulmin', 1913-1998 1
Roy, James Alexander, Professor of English, Queen's University, Kingston, 1884-1973 1
Saltire Society 1
Scotland's Magazine 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Shakespeare, William, playwright, 1564-1616 1
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955 1
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955: recipient 1
Standard Press Ltd, Montrose, publishers 1
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