Box CLX-A-379

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1 folder: Material, "Enigma Variations", manuscript, relating to an early attempt by Young at an autobiographical work, 1979 (re-started again in 1982) - intention was to focus on the war, childhood, school and university.

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1 folder: Material, Enigma Variations, manuscript, notes and drafts.

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File of typed documents relating to the presentation of Irene Young's books to the Scottish Poetry Library in 2012, including an explanatory note by Iain Gordon Brown, a copy of the special bookplate placed in the volumes composed by Iain Gordon Brown and set by Julie Johnstone, and a book list.

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Photocopy of a manuscript verse: "From one who's ill at ease with maps, / Who thinks them better left to chaps, / Receive the World (in flat dimension), / A gift of love of grand pretension!". With an ink note in red: "With the gift of a Times Atlas, 1990s".

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Issue of St Giles' News containing poetry by Irene Young and a biographical article about her written by Iain Gordon brown, pp. 18-19. Includes correspondence about the poem and the article between Iain Gordon Brown and the editor.

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Photocopy of a poem entitled "Diffugere Nives" (Horace, Odes IV.vii) with a handwritten date "c. 1968".

Scope and Contents Cuttings, notes, poems. From file: 'This is one of the two original fair-copy manuscript texts of the poem published as "The Computer Mouse's tail", in Irene Young's A Two-Coloured Skein: Selected Poems (Edinburgh, 2017), p. 112'; 'enclosure from red notebook entitled "poems by Irene Young", 1934-1936'; and '"Return to Priverno" by Irene J Brown c Estate of Irene J Brown 2017'.Also includes a notebook containing a few...

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This is a volume of handwritten manuscript transcripts of her verse made by Irene J. Young ("Dink") for her cousin Gilbert Young Kennedy ("Blunt") and returned to Iain Gordon Brown with other papers of and relating to Gilbert after the death in 2024 of his third wife, Margaret. A variant of the poem 'Sonnet for an Anniversary'/ 'Sonnet for my Cousin's Birthday' (A Two-Coloured Skein, p.82, published with the former title) is inserted.

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Notebook containing manuscript poems by Irene Young. In group 'Verse by Irene J. Brown'.

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Notebook containing a few manuscript poems by Ena St Vincent Millay written down by Irene Young. In group 'Verse by Irene J. Brown'.