Literature (writings).
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Business records of R and R Clark Ltd, printers, including six boxes of George Bernard Shaw's letters to the firm, and related printed material by Shaw.
Correspondence and literary papers of Margaret O W Oliphant and her family.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
Robert Paul, manager of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, married Charlotte, the daughter of John Erskine of Cambus, advocate, in 1814. The connection of the Pauls with the Erskines of Alva, and later with the Erskine Murrays, remained strong, and the antiquarian interests of the Reverend Robert Paul, Free Church minister at Dollar, led him to examine many of the Erskine papers. Some of these remained with the Paul’s and now form part of the collection.
Correspondence and papers of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, 1874-1936; with manuscripts and typescripts of his writings and those of his wife Gabrielle, circa 1905-1936, and undated.
Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, and photographs, of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver, 1921-1944, together with diaries and miscellaneous papers of his mother, Elizabeth Oliver, wife of Major Edward Oliver, Veterinary Advisor to the Indian government, 1905-1946, undated.
Family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith, including correspondence, financial papers and bound estate papers.
Also included are general and literary correspondence, 1863-1933, and some literary manuscripts of Sir Herbert Maxwell, seventh baronet.
Incomplete manuscript of `Carita` by Margaret Oliphant, with a covering letter to Smith and Elder, the publisher.
Incomplete manuscript of `Carita``, published by Smith and Elder, firstly in the `Cornhill Magazine` 1876-1877, and then in novel form in 1877. It comprises the text of Chapters I-XXI and XXV-XXXIII (wanting Chapters XXII-XXIV and XXXIV-XLV), and was evidently the printer`s copy as it is marked with compositors` names and is fairly soiled, probably from handling by compositors. With a letter of Margaret Oliphant to the publishers dated 22 March 1876.
Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.
David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford.
Letters, 1986-1994, of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Grawford; with manuscript and typescript poems and acrostics, 1986-1995; uncorrected typescript, 1986, of "The Ballad of the Golden Bird"; sketchbook, 1985, of Kenna Crawford containing manuscript poem of George Mackay Brown.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Literary and family papers of Sir Alexander Gray (1882-1968), Professor of Political Economy at Aberdeen and later at Edinburgh University.
Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.
Literary and personal papers of, and relating to, David Thomson.
As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Literary manuscripts of G W Slaney, the novelist 'George Woden’ (1884-1978).
Literary papers and art notebooks of Ewan Morrison, mainly relating to `Menage` (London: Cape, 2009).
The collection relates principally to Ewan Morrison`s fourth book, `Ménage` (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009), which drew on material and notebooks dating back to the 1990s.
Literary papers, broadcast texts and press cuttings of Robert (Bob) Crampsey.
With some manuscripts and papers by Alexia F McAlpine and Anne Valentine.
Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
Literary papers of David Morrison.
Comprising mainly unpublished works.