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Literature (writings).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written works produced by an individual or specific group of individuals of a particular form or genre, on a particular subject, or for a particular audience.

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Literary papers of Robin Jenkins.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12645

Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12937
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1964.

Literary works and other papers of Elspeth Davie.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10631/1-40
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts of short stories and a novel.

Dates: 1871-1992.

Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8171-8180
Scope and Contents

Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).

MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.

Dates: [1896, or before-?1901, ?1923.]

Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of translations of poetry and prose by George S Fraser.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11406
Scope and Contents

Includes related correspondence, 1965-1986, and an undated manuscript of W S Graham.

Dates: 1965-1986 and undated.

Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

Dates: 1918-1989, undated.

Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.24501-24629
Scope and Contents

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1767. A large part of the papers consist of his essays, drafts and notes, many of which were used in his books.

Dates: 1526-1936, undated.

Papers of Neil M Gunn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.209

‘Papers read at the Meetings of the Knights of the Round Table during the summer of A.D.1842.’

 File
Identifier: MS.537
Scope and Contents

According to an entry in an old sale-catalogue pasted on the inside cover, “These literary efforts .. . were the work of the Members of a small Edinburgh Literary and Social Club, consisting of Law Students, who, as the Knights of the Round Table, met in Bourgeois’ Tavern, Fleshmarket Close, Edinburgh".

Dates: 1842.

Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12578/1-45
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the life and work of the novelist, poet and writer Naomi Mitchison. Includes personal correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, press cuttings, family papers and photographs.Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, née Haldane, was born in Edinburgh in 1897. She was the youngest child of Louisa Kathleen Haldane, née Trotter, and John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Her elder brother was the biologist J. B. S. 'Jack' Haldane (1892–1964).Naomi attended the Dragon School...
Dates: 1836-2002