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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

Found in 7214 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers relating to the publication of works of Alasdair Gray, with some articles, reviews and biographical material.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9247/1-52
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and illustrative material relating to a wide range of Alasdair Gray’s work, including twenty-nine stage, radio and television plays, and the following published works:

'Lanark' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981). 'Lean tales' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985). 'Lean tales' (London: Abacus, 1987). 'Old negatives' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).

Dates: 1954-Circa 1987.

Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers relating to works of Duncan Glen, with additional correspondence and papers concerning his publishing and editorial activities.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9615/1-53
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of poems and essays, with associated correspondence.

Dates: 1965-1986.

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates: 1980-1997.

Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and correspondence of Alasdair Gray.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11655
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerns "Working Legs" and "Why Scots Should Rule Scotland 1997".

Dates: 1966-1997.

Marjory Fleming papers.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1096-1100

Material deposited with George Hogarth, Writer to the Signet, relating to the dispute between Robert Cadell, publisher of the Waverley Novels, and Ballantyne and Company, printers, about the quality and price of the printing of ‘Guy Mannering’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1829-1830.

 File
Identifier: MS.6290, folios 173-219
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Copies of correspondence between Robert Cadell and Ballantyne and Company (folio 173), and of a letter, 1829, of Ballantyne and Company, appealing to the proprietors of the Waverley Novels (folio 193);

A draft of a Memorial of Ballantyne and Company, presenting their case (folio 201), and the answer of Counsel, signed John Hope, 1830 (folio 213).

Dates: 1829-1830.

Materials towards ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.3-20.2.9
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of notes and extracts, mostly from published sources, together with some correspondence, and a number of fair copies of early versions of parts of the text. Many of the items, particularly the fair copies of the text, are in the hand of Chalmers’s nephew James Chalmers. The letters are dated between 1794 and 1805: the other writings are undated but watermarks visible in the leaves are dated within this period.

Dates: ?1794-?1805.