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Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

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Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of Act I, entitled 'The Flint and the Flame', undated (folio 1). This is not the version written for broadcasting. (ii) Two typescripts of a version intended for broadcasting, undated (folio 15). The second (folio 56) is heavily corrected and has pencilled remarks by Peggy Morrison. (iii) Annotated typescript of the broadcast, 1954 (folio 90). (iv) Fragments of typescripts, 1952, undated (folio l36).

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Most of the poems (folio 1) were published in Alexander Scott's ‘Double Agent: poems in English and Scots’ (Preston, 1972). The articles and broadcasts (folio 25) are on literary subjects, and include part of the introduction to ‘Contemporary Scottish verse’ (London, 1970).

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Comprising:

original manuscript and corrected typescript of "Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (Edinburgh, 1966); manuscript and broadcast scripts of eight radio plays and dramatisations, 1962-1968; 16 letters, 1959-1968, to Ian S Munro, correspondents including C M Grieve and Willa Muir.

Scope and Contents From the Series: As well as writing books, Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a manuscript was intended for publication or for a talk;...

Scope and Contents From the Series: As well as writing books, Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a manuscript was intended for publication or for a talk;...

Scope and Contents From the Series: As well as writing books, Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a manuscript was intended for publication or for a talk;...

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Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, additions and deletions, of 'Fergusson and Burns', a programme for the BBC series 'Chapbook', broadcast on the Scottish Home Service, 1950 (folio l); (ii) Corrected typescript of Sydney Goodsir Smith's introduction to ‘Fergusson: a bi-centenary handsel’ (Edinburgh, 1974) (folio 23). For another copy, see MS.26187, folio 34. (iii) Manuscript and typescript drafts of "'The Tricky Callant"; a tribute to Robert Fergusson',...

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The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of the introduction, and manuscript and corrected typescript of various pages of ‘Two men and a blanket’, ?1974 (folio l); (ii) Duplicated typescript of the serialised version of ‘Two men and a blanke’, broadcast in the BBC Radio programme, 'Book at Bedtime', 1976 (folio 28).

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The contents are as follows. (i) 'John Gordon of Glenbucket in the '15’ (folio 1). The manuscript contains several different versions. (ii) Reports of pupils' and teachers' reactions to the programme, 1962 (folio 89); (iii) 'Old Glenbucket in the '45’ (folio 92).

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The dramatic peices are 'Morocco land', 1961 (folio 1), 'David Kinnaird', 1961 (folio 64), and Irish Immigrant', 1962 (folio 122).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts, corrected typescript, and broadcast script of 'The Smugglers of Dally Bay', 1963 (folio 1). The last page of the manuscript (following folio 24) is missing. (ii) Manuscript of an early version, apparently rejected, of 'The Isle of Arran (the Sannox emigrants)', undated (folio 62); (iii) Broadcast script of 'The Isle of Arran (the Sannox emigrants)', 1963 (folio 72); (iv) Manuscript and broadcast script of 'Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd', 1963 (folio...

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This play was first broadcast by the BBC in 1967.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) 'Gift to the Queen', a play for radio on the 16th century poet, Alexander Scott (folio 1). Written in 1948, it was broadcast in 1949. (ii) “The Rape o' Helen”, 1950 (folio 20). A shortened version under the title 'The Last Time I saw Paris' was published in the ‘Saltire Review’, volume iv (1957), pages 23-36. (iii) ‘Untrue Thomas’, 1951 (folio 36). The play was broadcast in 1952 and published by the ‘Caledonian Press’ in the same year. (iv) 'Cutty Sark', 1951...

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Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, plays, poems and short stories, with some correspondence and other writings.

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This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and illustrative material relating to a wide range of Alasdair Gray’s work, including twenty-nine stage, radio and television plays, and the following published works:

'Lanark' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981). 'Lean tales' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985). 'Lean tales' (London: Abacus, 1987). 'Old negatives' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).

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The papers include reviews and articles, material on the fishing industry, some of which was used in ‘Living silver’ (London, 1957) (folio 7); autobiographical notes, 1958 (folio 63), and the text of a radio programme, 'Water alive', undated (folio 147).

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Alexander Scott was educated in Aberdeen, and after service in the army during the Second World War, became a lecturer in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He was the editor of the ‘Saltire Review’, 1954-1957, served on a number of literary committees, and edited work by William Soutar and Sydney Goodsir Smith, among others. His own literary work consisted of poetry, drama, and criticism.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of 'Uneasy Lies', undated, an early version of the play, written for radio (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript of the stage version of 'Right Royal' (folio 28). The text differs considerably from that of MS.26476.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Corrected typescript, undated (folio 1); (ii) BBC script of the broadcast, 1945 (folio 58).