Lumsden, Roderick (Roddy) Chalmers, 1966-2020 (Scottish poet)

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Cards sent by Roddy Lumsden, 2 portrait photographs (copies), letters (one from Lumsden in St Andrew to "Ruth" dated 26 January 1984, one from "Andy" in Dublin to "Brodskey" dated 11 January 1995), and an envelope "For Roddy from Connie" containing prints representing a tightrope walker.

Scope and Contents Photo of Roddy Lumsden in a pub with a man and a woman; photo of an elderly couple cutting a cake in a garden, with Roddy Lumsden as one of the guest in the background; printed photo of a man underwater in scuba gear, with a note on the back "I said I was going down under on holiday!". Correspondence sent to Roddy Lumsden from friends. "Shug Crosby", 1992, Madrid. "Sinead", undated. Not signed [possibly from Sinead W.], 19[95?], sent to Lumsden's Aberdeen address (contains human hair). There...

Scope and Contents Folder entitled "Shootin' Cinderella" containing photographs of poets and authors published by Bloodaxe Books (John Burnside, Andrew Greig, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay, W. N. Herbert) and Jonathan Cape (Duncan McLean, Alan Warner, Irvine Welch, Tom Lenard, Janice Galloway, A. L. Kennedy), typescript of poem "Infighting" with manuscript notes, typed document entitled with "Biographical Notes" with manscript notes, typed notes, a handout about the publisher...

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Colour photograph of a group of men at a game show called "The Lemon Tree". The three candidates are sitting in the front, with Roddy Lumsden in the middle alongside Gavin Ramsay and Jake Loveday, and the four hosts are standing behind them. There is a silver cup in front of Lumsden.

Scope and Contents Five photographs of Roddy Lumsden and "Becky" [Rebecca Baxter] at Lumsden's parents' house in St Andrews, dated 21 February 1987; photobooth photograph of Lumsden and Baxter; black-and-white photograph of a child looking at a toys display; "photo collage" of Paris; small booklet containing ID photographs of Lumsden as well as cards and tickets (late 1980s); Lumsden's Edinburg University matriculation card (1985-86); Lumsden's half fare Fife bus pass (1986); Rebecca Baxter's member card for...

Scope and Contents Material relating to Roddy Lumsden's life, perhaps gathered on the occasion of his funerals in 2020. Includes: photographs of him throughout his life (as a baby, at school, as a child, as a young adult, as a professional writer; many photographs also include his family, his friends, his former girlfriend); school material (photograph of Roddy as a child receiving a prize for the Guardbridge Competition, and prize certificate, 1974; Scottish Certificate of Education, 1983; Certificate of...

Scope and Contents Two spiral ring binders containing drafts of poems (typed). The first poems of each binder are "The Ultimate Curve" and "Seat Still Warm". No date. One of the binders include a few enclosures: two photographs ("Roddy in a pub with Anna Rowse", and "Roddy and Sinead at Edinburg Graduation Aug. 1997"), a loose A4 page with "Raw anagrams of Roderick Chalmers Lumsden" (typed), an invitation from the Scottish Cultural Press to the publication of further volumes in the Scottish Contemporary Poets...