Professor (Jack) John C. Weston papers, being material relating to the Hugh MacDiarmid editions, 'Collected poems', and 'A Drunk man looks at the thistle'
Scope and Contents
The collection contains proofs of A Drunk man looks at the thistle edited by Weston, ms and ts research material for the edition, correspondence with a wide range of people in the literary world and in publishing, newspaper cuttings, journal articles, and other printed ephemera.the Weston
Dates
- Creation: 1920-1973
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Biographical / Historical
Professor John C. Weston was on the English staff at Amherst, University of Massachusetts. He became an emeritus in the 1980s. In addition to his work on editions of Hugh MacDiarmid's Collected poems (1967), and A Drunk man looks at the thistle (1971), Weston published a Robert Burns: selections (1967). Throughout the period working on the MacDiarmid editions, he kept in contact with the poet and assisted in MacDiarmid's visit to the USA, to Massachusetts, in 1967.
Extent
2 boxes
Physical Location
CLX-A-1545; CLX-A-1546
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The material was acquired in 1986 within a MacDiarmid acquisition (E86.47) and had been designated formerly as Ms. 2971.
Processing Information
Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie, 22 March 2016.
Creator
Subject
- Title
- Professor (Jack) John C. Weston papers, being material relating to the Hugh MacDiarmid editions, 'Collected poems', and 'A Drunk man looks at the thistle'
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
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