Box Coll-2126: Box 6

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File containing postcards and letters from "Nina". Includes a poem "This is a poem for a girl called Nina".

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Letter from a former girlfriend, no signature. Dated 14 November 1989.

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Letters and cards sent to Roddy Lumsden from a former girlfriend (Becky B.), c. 1986-1990.

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...

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Black plastic ring binder containing Scottish ethnology notes by Roddy Lumsden. One text (photocopy) is manuscript and gives an account of Lumsden's fieldwork assignment to interview local people about "the long-gone fishing community at the Ladyhead". The next text is a typewritten essay (with a handwritten (photocopy) title page), entitled "oral Literature and Popular Tradition. Roddy Lumsden. "The Ladyhead". The Last Generations of a North-East Fife fishing community".

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File containing short humorous biographical descriptions of members of the fictional "Rintoul" family, along with portraits and photographs of people and animals cut from newspapers.

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File entitled "Sinead" containing one postcard from Malawi, one note, and one envelope with writing on it.

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Letter from "Andy" to Roddy Lumsden, dated Monday 30th May, no year, in which Andy thanks Lumsden for a loan, and talks about poetry he's been reading (Soft Keys by Michael Symmons Roberts).