Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith; with letters to Hazel Goodsir Smith.
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts and Typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith:
Corrected carbon copy of typescript, circa 1948, of 'Under the Eildon Tree'.
Manuscripts, circa 1952-1953, of four poems dedicated to Hazel Goodsir Smith.
‘Tis Late’ was published in 'Lines Review', 6 (1954), page 23; ‘Mareeld’ was published in 'Omens' (Edinburgh: M.Macdonald, 1955), page 16.
Letter, undated, to Hazel Goodsir Smith.
Manuscript drafts, undated, of ‘Said Heraclitus’. This poem was published in 'Lines Review', 4 (1954), page 21.
Manuscripts drafts, February 1960, of a poem.
Heavily corrected typescripts, undated, of three poems.
There are two drafts of ‘Stormy Day and a Cat, November’, which was published in 'Akros', 8 (1974), page 18.
‘Song: She Fills the Heart’, and ‘As the Rose’.
Letters to Hazel Goodsir Smith:
Letter, 3 June 1975, of Christopher Murray Grieve to Hazel Goodsir Smith, enclosing a typescript of his ‘Introduction’ to the 'Collected Poems' (London: John Calder, 1975), pages xi-xiii.
Two letters, 22 and 31 January 1975, of Norman MacCaig to Hazel Goodsir Smith, enclosing a typescript of tributes to Sydney Goodsir Smith prepared for television broadcasts.
Carbon copy of typescript, 1975, of ‘Letter from Hamnavoe’, a tribute to Sydney Goodsir Smith by George Mackay Brown. This was published in 'The Orcadian'.
Letter, 1975, of John Guthrie.
Letter, 1976, of Marjorie Linklater.
Robin Lorimer, ‘Cumha an Ridire Mhaith. Lament for Sydney Goodsir Smith’, [1975]. This lament was published in 'Scotia Review', 9 (1975), page 9.
Dates
- Creation: Circa 1948-1976, undated.
Creator
- Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 (Person)
- Smith, Hazel Elizabeth Simpson Goodsir, 2nd wife of Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, née Williamson, 1928-2004: recipient (Recipient, Person)
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Extent
1 Folders
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 2001, by Hazel Goodsir Smith, Edinburgh.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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