Scope and Contents The letter in Muir's own hand, and signed, is dated 24 January 1959, Priory Cottage, Swaffham Prior, Cambridge, and is addressed to 'Dear Vernon Watkins'. The letter is responding to Watkins' correspondence on the death of her husband, Edwin Muir. She writes that the letter 'will be a comfort to me later, when Edwin's presence in this cottage will have ceased to emphasise his absence, as it surely must do'. She has 'been half demented [...] with grief and exhaustion'. She ends by saying that...

Scope and Contents This fonds consists of correspondence, records, and typed notes relating to translator and academic Sylvia Daiches Raphael, in particular to her addition to the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women at the proposal of Eric Dickson. Most of the correspondence is between Sylvia's husband, David Raphael, and Eric Dickson, who was commissioned to write the piece for the dictionary. Also included is an official copy of the death certificate of Sylvia Raphael;...