Photographs.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. (AAT) This heading was used in the NLS typescript manuscripts catalogue for all types of photographs, and for documents relating to photography. (NLS).
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of George Mackay Brown, with some personal correspondence and audiovisual material.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13134/1-17
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of 'Greenvoe' and 'Hawkfall and other stories', with assorted personal correspondence and photographs of or relating to George Mackay Brown and his works.
Dates:
1969-1996.
Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14596/1-248
Scope and Contents
This archive contains literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown, the celebrated Orcadian poet and novelist. At the heart of this collection is the vast amount of correspondence received by George Mackay Brown throughout his life from friends, fans, editors, publishers and others. These letters, postcards and greetings cards give a unique insight into the breadth of attention that his work drew, as well as the connections he made with correspondents from across the world, all from...
Dates:
1800, 1934-2013, undated.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13344/1-14
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.
The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.
Dates:
1985-1995.