Scope and Contents Contains posters for:'Hocus pocus' and 'In nomine patris', 28 July-1 August 1986, at The Drama Centre, Glasgow.'Joe' and 'Politics in the park', 20-25 October 1987, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.'An audience with the bard', 23-28 February 1988, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.'Boothies', 8-13 November 1988, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.'Moving bodies', 30 June-5 July 1989, at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow....

Scope and Contents Most of the transparencies are numbered, but not all numbers are present and some numbers do not fit into the main sequence. The following list of contents is based on the existing labels and numbering (not in Alasdair Gray's hand).1. Reading at Aberdeen Central Library, 17 November 1995, portrait of Gray by Alasdair Taylor.2. Poster 'A right to justice', 2002.3. Poster for 'Unlikely stories, mostly', 1983.5. 'Did you join the LDU?', a poster...

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The posters are for theatrical productions of works of Alasdair Gray, the illustrations are mostly commissions for other people's books or projects.

A second annotation, 'All scanned by NLS Oct 2007', is not in Alasdair Gray's hand.

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Further annotation on box lid reads 'given to Robin Smith on Tuesday 18 July 2006' and 'All scanned by NLS, October 2007'. Latter annotation is not in Alasdair Gray's hand.

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Further annotation on box lid reads 'Alan Fletcher slides (or rather) 7 colour transparencies of his work, 2 of paintings by Pierre Lavalle, 1 of portrait in pastel of Morag McAlpine by John Connolly, 1 of portrait in charcoal [and] watercolour of Alex Gray, circa 1960, (late) artist unknown, 11 transparencies for Scot Nat Library'.

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Further annotation on box lid reads '115 slides, 23 black [and] white negatives and 12 colour negatives [both in brown envelope], 1 colour transparency in white envelope, 5.1.06'.

Includes slides labelled and arranged according to their previous deposit with the library as TD.3190/1-5.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...

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Tansparencies of paintings and drawings by Alasdair Gray, many of which were collected and annotated in this collection to be scanned for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).

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Contains transparencies of book designs for most of Alasdair Gray's own works, and for books by other writers.

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Transparencies of posters designed by Alasdair Gray for various events or campaigns, including book readings, plays and university events. The transparencies were produced around 2006, but the original artworks date from 1977-2002.

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Files of papers relating to the literary output of Don and Bridge MacCaskill.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...

Scope and Contents Contains transparencies of book covers for:'Imaginary wounds', by Aonghas MacNeacail (Glasgow Print Studio Press, 1980.'The Glasgow diary', by Donald Saunders (Polygon, 1984).'A bad day for the Sung Dynasty', by Frank Kuppner (Carcanet, 1984).'Shoestring gourmet', by Wilma Paterson (Canongate, 1986).'Antifoundationalism and practical reasoning', edited by Evan Simpson (Academic Printing, 1987).'The world of CLR James',...

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Contains transparencies of book covers for:

'Findrinny', by Donald Goodbrand Saunders.

'Tramonta', by Hugh McMillan.

"Lord Byron's relish", by Wilma Paterson.

'A sense of something strange', by Archie E Roy.

'Blooding Mister Naylor', by Chris Boyce.

'The canongate strangler', by Angus McAllister.

An annotation on the cover also lists 'McGrotty and Ludmilla' and 'Dog and Bone logo', but these are not present.

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Collected for the catalogue of the 'Five Scottish artists' exhibition at the McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, 1986.

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Collected for the catalogue of the 'Five Scottish artists' exhibition at the McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, 1986.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: Includes slides, transparencies and photographs of artworks of Alasdair Gray and some of his friends and contemporaries, as well as audiovisual and digital material. The photo albums of images of Hillhead and the west end of Glasgow were likely collected to act as source materials for the Hillhead SPT subway mural.Many of the slides, transparencies and photographs found here were collated for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009), and some were previously deposited with...

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The photographs of books are credited to Iona Shepherd, 2005.

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Old annotation on box reads "Illustrations - [and] pages - of books that were part of Alasdair Gray's childhood training. 35 transparencies for the Scot National Libr", with a second annotation reading 'not now true'.

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Includes a folder of slides of the Liz Lochhead 'film sequence' paintings, numbered according to their original arrangement when they were part of TD.3190/39-52.

Scope and Contents Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...

Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...