Box Coll-2126: Box 3

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Untitled spiral-bound typescript containing poetry. The first poem is entitled "After Entomology".

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Typescript and manuscript poems: "Sweet infancy", "In What Happens", "Having Sleepwalked". Also include a list of audio tracks(?), a typescript entitled "Moments: 4" with a pencil signature "F Gallagher Bellshill", and a leaflet for an event "four award-winning Scottish poets" at The Square Centre on Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, Tuesday 30 August [no year - could be 1988, 1994].

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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.

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Unbound typescript of prose texts and a few poems: "One", "Midnight Mall", "The Unexplorer", "The Cover Song", "The House to Myself", "Orange-Picking", "Ruins", "Blue Overalls", "Nun", "The Bad Complexion", "To a Small Town Suicide" (poem), "Continent of Rain" (poem), "Checking", "Mince", "Child in the back" (poem), "Sleeve notes".

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Correspondence from the Society of Authors to Roddy Lumsden when he won the Eric Gregory award in 1991.

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...

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Documents relating to Lumsden's time at the University of Edinburgh, including pass certificates, envelopes, philosophy exam paper, graduation booklet and leaflets. There is also a typescript poem starting with "Sat on the edge of your bed".

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Notebooks containing poetry, prose texts, and notes by Roddy Lumsden. One notebook is dated "First Winter 1986" on the cover.

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Untitled spiral-bound typescript containing poetry. The first poem is entitled "Actor's Nightmare".