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2 letters from H J C Grierson to Dear Sir
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1556
Scope and Contents
The letters are:
1 x ts dated 23 October 1944, written 12 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, and addressed to 'Dear Sir'. Grierson suggests that 'you will look at that interesting book' entitled 'Sir Walter Scott's Friends' by Florence MacCunn (1909). In it 'you will find that it was Mrs Ann Murray Keith [...] who declared that she recognised stories she had told Scott'.
1 x ms dated 30 October...
Dates:
1944
Autograph ms from 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by James Hogg, being a leaf from the draft for 'Class IV. Dogs'
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1713
Content Description
Autograph manuscript from 'The Shepherd's Calendar', by James Hogg, 1824. It is a leaf from the draft of 'Class IV. Dogs', and is large folio size laid onto paper.
The ms has some Borders stories about dogs e.g. 'the late Mr. Steel's nephew in Peebles had a bitch [...] whose feats in taking home sheep from the neighbouring farms into the market at Peebles by herself form innumerable anecdotes in that vicinity...'.
Dates:
1824
Colin Campbell Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-38
Scope and Contents
The Colin Campbell Collection contains Gaelic verse, mainly songs; sermon notes and scripture expositions, the earliest being 1703; manuscript treatises; Colin Campbell correspondence, the earliest being 1664; miscellaneous manuscripts including domestic accounts, medical papers, minutes etc; notebooks, accounts, letters and scraps of Patrick Campbell of Achnaba; letters from mathematicians to Colin Campbell, and mathematical papers; a body of accounts, the earliest being 1553; a body of...
Dates:
1553-1836
Collection of correspondence from and relating to Hugh MacDiarmid and the publication of Stony Limits
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1594
Identifier: Coll-2005
Content Description
This collection consists of correspondence between Hugh MacDiarmid, his publisher Victor Gollancz, and other interested parties concerning the publication of his poetry volume Stony Limits (1934). The correspondence largely concerns Gollancz’s fears that certain poems might expose the publisher to prosecution under libel, blasphemy, and obscenity legislation. Although he rigorously defended his verse, MacDiarmid was eventually persuaded to substitute the...
Dates:
1934-1986
Copies of letters between C. M. Grieve and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1298
Scope and Contents
Three copies of manuscript letters from Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) to Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji are dated 25 May 1926 from Montrose, 5 January 1932 from London, and 19 August 1955 from Lanarkshire. The letter from 25 May 1926 had been sent to Sorabji through the New Age. Grieve writes that 'I should have written you long ere this, but for the Strike, which involved me in all kinds of difficulties and while it lasted completely...
Dates:
1926-1955-
Correspondence between Dick Leith and Hamish Henderson
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1143
Identifier: Coll-1971
Content Description
This contains notes, a postcard, and letters sent between Hamish Henderson and Dick Leith in the 1990s:
Postcard showing Castle Tioram sent from Dick Leith to Hamish Henderson, dated 10th June [1994];
Photocopy of text by Andrew Morrison on 'The Green Man of Knowledge', undated. 'The Green Man of Knowledge' was a folktale recorded from Geordie Stewart by Hamish Henderson in August...
Dates:
1995-1999
Correspondence between George Mackay Brown and Hugo Brunner
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1294
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection spans a period of 22 years from 1974 to 1996, and consists of several dozens of pages. The content tells of George Mackay Brown's annual cycle and his daily life, and particularly of visits of muses and other friends, as well as referring to publishing and contract matters. Included among the many individuals mentioned or referred to in the letters are: Ernest Marwick, Edwin Muir, Andrew Motion, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Hermann Palsson, Simon Fraser, Esther...
Dates:
1974-1996
Corson Collection
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1022
Scope and Contents
The Corson Collection consists of materials assembled by James Clarkson Corson (1905-1988), Deputy Librarian of Edinburgh University and Honorary Librarian of Abbotsford.It is comprised of two sub-divisions. The first consists of materials related to Sir Walter Scott, including manuscripts, artworks, realia, memorabilia, press-cuttings, and critical materials, which were purposely collected by Corson to complement his extensive collection of printed works by or about...
Dates:
18th-20th century
Lecture on George Mackay Brown by Geoffrey Elborn
Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1794 / SC-Acc-2017-0005
Identifier: Coll-1794
Content Description
This typescript lecture by Geoffrey Elborn on George Mackay Brown has many manuscript corrections. Elborn refers to "a new novel Time in a red coat is to be published next month by the Hogarth Press". This dates the lecture to 1984 when the GMB title came out.
The incomplete typescript consisting of 10pp is numbered pages 1-9, then page 11.
Dates:
1984
Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to Dr. Mary Ringsleben, 30 August 1958
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1384
Scope and Contents
The letter was written by Hugh MacDiarmid on 30 August 1958 from 'Brownsbank', Candymill, Biggar, Lanarkshire. It is addressed to Dr. Ringsleben - Mary Ringsleben having been awarded her Ph.D. two years earlier in 1956 (Aberdeen). MacDiarmid apologises for having 'retained your thesis so long'. He refers to having seen Dr. David Murison (deputy editor of the Scottish National Dictionary) in Edinburgh and that he had 'just missed you'. He describes the Ringsleben thesis as 'an...
Dates:
fl. 1956-1968