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Correspondence and papers concerning Richard M D Grange, "A Short History of the Scottish Dress" (1967).

 File
Identifier: Acc.9822
Scope and Contents

With typescript and illustrations, 1970, for Grange`s unpublished, "What to see on Mull".

Dates: 1967-1970.

Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, articles and reviews, of Nigel Tranter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9402/1-58
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, topographical works, and articles, together with correspondence comprising around 2000 letters.

Dates: [?1955]-1986.

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 Charles Augustus Muir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9522
Scope and Contents

Concerning Muir`s literary work and to his history of the Royal Scots, "The First of Foot" (1961).

Dates: 1915-1987.

Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11050
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.

Dates: circa 1955-1976.

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 Gilbert Askew, concerning his research into the history of the bagpipe.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14222/1-5
Content Description

A collection of papers of Gilbert Askew (1893-1950), numismatist and expert on the Northumbrian bagpipe. It contains correspondence and press cuttings concerning Askew's published works 'The bibliography of the bag-pipe', 'Two sets of miniature bagpipes in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland' and 'The bagpipe in Early Britain', and material collected for an unpublished work entitled 'The bagpipe in England'.

Dates: 1929-?1950.

Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.

Dates: 1759-[circa 1947.]

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

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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 and papers of Sir William Craigie (1867-1957), the philologist and lexicographer.

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Identifier: MS.9987
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters to William Craigie, 1886-1923, undated, chiefly from other scholars concerning philological and editorial problems. A few unrelated letters, 1825-1885, from Palmerston, Peel, and others, have been placed at the beginning. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1923-1957, undated, with C T Onions and the Clarendon Press, concerning the ‘Oxford English dictionary’ and its supplements. ‘The dictionary of American English’ and other lexicographical...
Dates: 1825-1957, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the poet and journalist Albert David Mackie.

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Identifier: MS.19634
Scope and Contents

In 1961, Albert David Mackie wrote to a large number of Scottish authors asking them for information about their current work and this manuscript contains many of their replies. Also included are letters from Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) on literary matters and from Duncan Macrae and T M Watson on theatrical productions, and corrected typescripts of a Scots version of the 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' by Robert Menzies.

Dates: 1926-1968, undated.

Correspondence and papers of William Winter Hamilton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10951/1-124
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Dates: 1950-1987.

Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of Mollie Hunter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11073/1-122
Scope and Contents

Includes editorial correspondence, typescripts and proofs of novels, and some book jackets and illustrations.

Dates: 1960-1993, undated.

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.

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Names
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 33
Gray, Alasdair (author) 18
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 15
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 13
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 12
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Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 12
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 10
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 9
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 9
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 9
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 8
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 8
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 7
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 7
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 7
Soutar, William (poet) 7
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 6
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 6
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 6
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 5
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 5
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 5
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 5
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 5
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 5
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 5
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 5
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 5
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 5
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 4
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 4
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 4
National Library of Scotland 4
Purves, David, poet and playwright, b 1924 4
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 4
Akros, literary magazine 3
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 3
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 3
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 3
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 3
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 3
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 3
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 3
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 3
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 3
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 3
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 3
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 3
Owens, Agnes (author) (1926-2014) 3
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 3
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 3
Roy, James Alexander, Professor of English, Queen's University, Kingston, 1884-1973 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Scottish National Party 3
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 3
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 3
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 3
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 2
Begg, James, fl. 1890-1944 (timber merchant of Glasgow) 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 2
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 2
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 2
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Craigen, James Mark, politician and author, b 1938 2
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 2
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Downie, Anne, playwright, b 1939 2
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 2
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 2
Edinburgh International Festival 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 2
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 2
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 2
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 2
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
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