Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article, with autograph corrections, entitled 'Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey, critics and essayists' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript, 1933, of a lecture or article entitled 'Abraham Lincoln', apparently written on Herbert Grierson's return from America in that year (folio 26);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, headed 'Lincoln', but apparently concerning Andrew Carnegie and American industry,...

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Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.

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Included is a draft review of a work by Dr Priestly (folio 89), and notes from Mosheim (folio 90) and Warburton's Julian (folio 98).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...

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The papers include (folio 26) the catalogue of an exhibition in honour of Hugh MacDiarmid, with annotations by Sydney Goodsir Smith.

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Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

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Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

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Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

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Containing copy of 'Our changing democracy: devolution to Scotland and Wales', Cmnd.6348, 1975.

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Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

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Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

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Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on the Diderik ballads, and the text of a broadcast on 'Sir Halewyn', 1947, undated (folio l); (ii) An address at a graduation in Edinburgh University, 1954 (folio l2). This was printed in Sir Alexander Gray's ‘A timorous civility’ (Glasgow, 1966), pages 32-40. (iii) Press-cuttings of poems and articles by Gray, with some reviews of his work, 1921-1940, undated (folio 25).

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Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

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The book files include generally correspondence, accounts, photographs, art work and reviews.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Five apparently unpublished stories by William Sharp (folio 1);(ii) Six apparently unpublished stories by 'Fiona MacLeod' (folio 46);(iii) Part of an apparently unpublished article by William Sharp on 'Pélleas et Mélisande' by Maurice Maeterlinck (folio 64);iv) Reviews by 'Fiona MacLeod' of ‘The Cuchullin saga’ (London, 1898); of 'A field for modern verse' by Stephen Phiilips, in ‘The Dome’, February 1899; and of...

Scope and Contents Containing:Printed articles and correspondence on 'The Ladies Alpine Club' and female mountaineers, 1909-1985.Press cuttings and Janet Adam Smith notes on the Cairngorms and accidents there, 1932-1995.Letters to Janet Adam Smith on writing for 'The Alpine Journal', 1949-1951.Book reviews and articles by Janet Adam Smith for 'The Alpine Journal' – May 1950, May 1952, May 1957, 1990-91.'Book reviews and articles by Janet Adam Smith...

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The contents are as follows: Transcript of ‘Memoirs of the Insurrection in the year 1715 by John, Master of Sinclair’, [1799, or after-1803, of after] (MS.1574);

Fragments, early 19th century, of reviews in the autograph of Robert Southey, with some notes on John Dryden by Sir Walter Scott (MS.1575);

Papers, [?1622-?1844], of and concerning Sir Walter Scott (MS.1583).

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File includes typed copies of press reviews of the series.