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Scottish poetry -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Annotated typescript entitled "Long Division", late 1980s - early 1990 [?]

 Item — Box Coll-2126: Box 5
Identifier: Coll-2126/41
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a prose text entitled "Long Division", with manuscript annotations in red ink.

Dates: late 1980s - early 1990 [?]

Bound typescript containing poetry, undated

 File — Box Coll-2126: Box 3
Identifier: Coll-2126/23
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: undated

Bound typescript containing poetry, undated

 Item — Box Coll-2126: Box 3
Identifier: Coll-2126/31
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: undated

Corrected galley proofs of Collected Poems, 1962

 File
Identifier: Coll-2124/2/5
Scope and Contents

Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961, typescript, corrected galley proofs.

Dates: 1962

Correspondence with F. G. Scott, with enclosed poems, 1932-1957

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-2124/1/2
Scope and Contents Ff. 1-2: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 22/07/1932. Ff. 3-5: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 24/10/1932. Ff. 6-8*: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 19/10/1939. Ff. 9-10: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 20/11/1939. Ff. 11-16: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 07/09/1940. Includes a manuscript text of "Auld Reekie", 5 ff., pencil. F. 17: Letter from...
Dates: 1932-1957

Correspondence with Helen B. Cruickshank, 17 May 1922 - 16 August 1964

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-2124/1/1
Scope and Contents Correspondence between Hugh MacDiarmid and Helen B. Cruickshank, from 17 May 1922 to 16 August 1964 (a few with no date), arranged chronologically, 78 letters, 155 folios.There is also an envelope containing snapshots of Hugh MacDiarmid and family mostly taken by Helen Cruickshank (ff. 159 - 180), and three signed photographs (f. 156: photograph of a bust by sculptor Laurence Bradshaw, f. 157: portrait of Hugh MacDiarmid, and f. 158: photograph of Valda Trevlyn...
Dates: 17 May 1922 - 16 August 1964

Draft copy of MacDiarmid's poem 'A hymn to Lenin'

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1100
Scope and Contents

This is an ink manuscript letter on 4 pages. Pages numbered 10, 11, 12, and 13.


The first page of the poem is headed: "First Hymn to Lenin (To Prince D. S. Mirsky)".

Dates: 1931

"Elsewhere Perhaps Later", c 1995

 Item — Box Coll-2126: Box 2
Identifier: Coll-2126/22
Scope and Contents

Unbound typescript of "Elsewhere Perhaps Later".

Dates: c 1995

Folder entitled "Shootin' Cinderella", c 1995

 File — Box Coll-2126: Box 1
Identifier: Coll-2126/3
Scope and Contents Folder entitled "Shootin' Cinderella" containing photographs of poets and authors published by Bloodaxe Books (John Burnside, Andrew Greig, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay, W. N. Herbert) and Jonathan Cape (Duncan McLean, Alan Warner, Irvine Welch, Tom Lenard, Janice Galloway, A. L. Kennedy), typescript of poem "Infighting" with manuscript notes, typed document entitled with "Biographical Notes" with manscript notes, typed notes, a handout about the publisher...
Dates: c 1995

Galley proofs of "Voice of Scotland", edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, 1959

 Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0182
Scope and Contents Galley proofs of the December 1959 issue (vol. IX, no 3) of the periodical The Voice of Scotland: a quarterly magazine of Scottish arts and affairs, edited by Hugh MacDdiarmid. An example of these very scarce galley proofs, 25 pages on art paper, printed on one side only. This number was never published. The contents comprise a 5pp. editorial by MacDiarmid, in which he announces the death of Edwin Muir; MacDiarmid's long poem 'The Chinese Genius Wakes Up'; nine...
Dates: 1959