Scottish writers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Letter of Fred Urquhart to Dominic Hibberd, 11 January 1993
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0020
Scope and Contents
Letter from Fred Urquhart to Dominic Hibberd, biographer of the poet Harold Monro, in which Urquhart reminisces about his relationship with Monro’s son, Nigel, and his subsequent decades-long relationship with Peter Wyndham Allen, before going on to give news of his work. He also encloses an offprint of his short story "The Rabbit, the Pheasant and the Marmalade Cat" published in Aberdeen University Review, no. 188 (autumn 1992). Letter dated 11 January...
Dates:
11 January 1993
Letters from Edwin and Willa Muir to Morley and Flora Jamieson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2061
Content Description
This fonds consists of friendly letters and cards from Edwin and Willa Muir to their wartime lodgers Morley and Flora Jamieson: an autograph letter signed from Edwin and Willa to Flora, two autograph letters signed from Willa to Morley and Flora, a carbon-copy typed letter from Edwin to Morley and Flora, a Christmas autograph correspondence card signed from Willa to the Jamiesons' dog Jinty, and a Christmas autograph picture postcard signed from Willa. The letters were sent from Edinburgh,...
Dates:
1944-1963
Personal copies of David Douglas of "The Journal of Sir Walter Scott" (1890) and "Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott", extra-illustrated with correspondence
Fonds — Box CLX-A-481
Identifier: Coll-2098
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of publisher and editor David Douglas' personal copies of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (1890, vol. I and II) and Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott (1894, vol. I and II), extra-illustrated with correspondence.David Douglas, an Edinburgh publisher, oversaw the editing and publication of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott in 1890 and ...
Dates:
1890-1894
Typescripts and manuscripts of "Lord in Waiting" and "Price of a Princess" by Nigel Tranter
Fonds — Box CLX-A-390
Identifier: Coll-2056
Content Description
This collection consists of two typescripts of Nigel Tranter's books Lord in Waiting (first published in 1994) and Price of a Princess (first published in 1994) on 20 x 25 cm paper bound by strings; two manuscripts of the same novels on small paper cards 10 x 16 cm, and two published copies of the books.1. Nigel Tranter, Price of a Princess, c 1994, Autograph manuscript &...
Dates:
c 1994