Box Coll-2126: Box 4

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Four issues of the student poetry magazine Fox: the Edinburgh University Poetry Magazine, edited by Andrew Jackson and Roddy Lumsden: no. 2, no. 3, no.4 (2 copies), and no. 5. Includes poetry sent by students and poetry written Jackson and Lumsden themselves, as well poems from Norman MacCaig, Anne Stevenson, Edwin Morgan, Brian McCabe, Ron Butlin and Ellie MacDonald. The magazine was supported by Liz Lochhead.

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Two portrait photographs of Roddy Lumsden dated 1 August 1995, and negatives. Newspapers: bon accord (from Aberdeen City Council) September 1995 with an article on Lumsden entitled "The Bard of Aberdeen", p. 6; Press and Journal 28 July 1995; Aberdeen Herald & Post. 5 August 1995, with a photo and a short article on Lumsden on the front page.

Scope and Contents Folder of typewritten poetry (and a few handwritten poems), including titles such as "Lines to a Missionary", "Cavoli Riscaldi", "St James Infirmly". Also includes: an envelope sent from Portugal (Sintra) in January 1995 containing a typescript of a prose text entitled "Long Division", a brown envelope with a handwritten poem entitled "Maybe You Touched on Something", a green leaflet for an event in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh on a Saturday...

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Nine objects that belonged to Roddy Lumsden: a shield trophy with the engraving "Stella Artois Pub Quiz Winner 1996", an old watch, a miniature book entitled "The Little Bible", a buckle decorated with flowers, a brooch in the shape of a colourful "R", a small blue elephant figurine, a small pink pig figurine, a figure representing a cat sitting on top of two books, and a gold "heart of Midlothian" brooch.

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...

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Tickets and receipts for cultural (music, poetry) events attended by Roddy Lumsden in Edinburgh in the 1980s and 1990s, including during the Fringe, with a few leaflets.

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Pencil drawings on loose paper sheets, likely from a party game. Also includes a Christmas card with abstract watercolours at the back.

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Mix of ephemera, tickets, cards, postcards, letters, and notes (including from/to former girlfriends) kept by Roddy Lumsden around the late 1980s - early 1990s, sent from friends and his parents.