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Typescripts.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Typewritten documents.

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).

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Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem. (ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70); (iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates: [Circa1940]-1970, undated.

Poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' published as ‘Sangschaw’., [1925, or before], undated.

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Identifier: MS.27001
Scope and Contents

The papers include an early list of contents (folio 1), some typescripts (folio 2), and an undated manuscript copy, possibly made in the 1960s (folio 4). The copy does not include the foreword by John Buchan or the opinions on Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry, but is otherwise complete.

Dates: [1925, or before], undated.

Poems of Robert Garioch., 1940-1944.

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Identifier: MS.26161
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of the first and second editions of ‘17 poems for 6d’ by Somhairle Mac Gill-Eathain (Sorley Maclean) and Robert Garioch, (Edinburgh, 1940) (folio l); (ii) Typescript of 'The Masque of Edinburgh', published in ‘Scottish Art and Letters’, number l (1944), pages 24-28 (folio 31).

Dates: 1940-1944.

Poems of Robert Garioch., 1944-1949, undated.

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Identifier: MS.26162
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) 'The Masque of Edinburgh' from ‘Scottish Art and Letters’, number l (1944), pages 25-28 (folio l); (ii) Typescripts of 'Embro tae the ploy' and 'Address tae Robert Fergusson', undated (folio 4). (iii) Inscribed copy of 'Chuckles on the Cairn', (Hayes, 1949) (folio l5).

Dates: 1944-1949, undated.

Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).

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Identifier: MSS.27495-27498
Scope and Contents

Robin Fulton was born in Arran and became a schoolteacher. From 1967 to 1976 he edited the literary magazine 'Lines Review'. His work is mostly poetry, but also includes reviews, translations and literary studies. The papers consist of drafts and proofs of poems (MSS.27495-27497), and editorial papers for 'Lines Review' (MS.27498).

Dates: 1963-1972.

Poetry notebooks and other papers of Robert Crawford (1877-1931).

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Identifier: MSS.26023-26026
Scope and Contents

Robert Crawford, who was a miner in Ayrshire and later in Stirlingshire, published three collections of poems and also wrote philosophical essays.

Dates: 1920-1931, undated.

Poetry of Alastair Reid., 1953-1981, undated.

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Identifier: MSS.27446-27457
Scope and Contents

Alastair Reid both wrote poetry himself and translated work by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and others. MSS.27446-27448 contain his own poems, and MSS.27449-27457 his translations.

Dates: 1953-1981, undated.

Poetry of Ruthven Todd., 1925-1978, undated.

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Identifier: MSS.26827-26833
Scope and Contents

Some of these appeared in his published volumes of verse, or in literary magazines.

Dates: 1925-1978, undated.