Literature (writings).
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.
Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Literary works and other papers of Elspeth Davie.
Includes manuscript drafts of short stories and a novel.
Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.
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.
Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of translations of poetry and prose by George S Fraser.
Includes related correspondence, 1965-1986, and an undated manuscript of W S Graham.
Microfilm of manuscripts of Alexander Walker intended for publication.
Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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.
Papers of James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, concerning administration in Wei Hai Wei, and Chinese art and literature.
Papers of Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
‘Papers read at the Meetings of the Knights of the Round Table during the summer of A.D.1842.’
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".