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Reviews. Document genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reports or essays giving critical estimates of a relatively recent work, performance, or event. For other critical descriptions and analyses, prefer ""criticism"" .

Found in 316 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1930-2005.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of George Campbell Hay relating to his prose writing., [Circa 1938]-1983.

 File
Identifier: MS.26748
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, 1941-1983 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers, circa 1938-1983 (folio 19). They include transcriptions from Irish and Gaelic literature, and reviews of George Campbell Hay's work.

Dates: [Circa 1938]-1983.

Correspondence and papers concerning publications of Seton Gordon., 1914-1970, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 20(1)-(11)
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Dates: 1914-1970, undated.

Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, articles and reviews, of Nigel Tranter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9402/1-58
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, topographical works, and articles, together with correspondence comprising around 2000 letters.

Dates: [?1955]-1986.

Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.

With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.

And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.

Dates: 1890-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7085 Box 1(1)-Box 32
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.

Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.

Dates: 1938-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers on the re-publication of 'Divided loyalties' by Janet Teissier du Cros., 1984-1993.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/69
Scope and Contents Containing:Correspondence on the possible re-publication of 'Divided loyalties' by Janet Teissier du Cros by Canongate Press, and the possibility of a film based on the book, produced by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, 1984-1992.Correspondence of Francois Teissier du Cros and Janet Adam Smith (in French and English) on the re-publication of 'Divided loyalties', 1991-1992.Published reviews of 'Divided loyalties: a Scotswoman in occupied France' (Canongate, 1992),...
Dates: 1984-1993.

Correspondence and reviews of the 'Faber book of modern verse'., 1951-1982.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/85
Scope and Contents Containing:Reviews of the 'Faber book of modern verse', previously edited by Michael Roberts, under "Durrant’s press cuttings", October 1951–January 1952, June 1959, June 1960, and July 1965-January 1966.Correspondence between Janet Adam Smith and Faber and Faber about editing the 1st edition of the 'Faber book of modern verse', edited by Michael Roberts in 1936, May 1961–June 1963.Correspondence between Janet Adam Smith and Faber and Faber about collating...
Dates: 1951-1982.

Correspondence and reviews relating to 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987), by Tom Pow., 1984-1987.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12233/61
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1984-1987.

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, notes and reviews relating to 'In verse', a series of television interviews with Scottish poets broadcast on Scottish television and produced by Michael Grieve., 1987-1988.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12233/72
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1987-1988.

Correspondence of and concerning 'Chapman'., 1984-1988, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11319/1-33
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

The magazine was founded in 1970 and includes poetry and articles on all aspects of Scottish culture, including theatre, politics, language and arts.

Dates: 1984-1988, undated.

Correspondence of Robert Bruce Armstrong., 1869-1887.

 File
Identifier: MS.6110
Scope and Contents

Also included (folio 178) are some press cuttings, 1884, of reviews of 'The History of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debateable Land'.

Dates: 1869-1887.

Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.

Dates: Circa 1926-1997.

Correspondence to Donalda Crichton Smith., 1992-2000.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12600/34-36
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The letters are largely from publishers, literary magazines, newspapers, broadcasters, educational institutions, cultural organizations, research students and fans. The files include other material, such as invitations to exhibition openings, graduations and literary events, papers relating to the teaching of literature in schools, and ephemera.

Dates: 1992-2000.

Critical works of Tom Scott., Undated.

 Series
Identifier: yAcc.11750/93-103
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.

Dates: Undated.