The Thomas Nelson Papers contain many letters by John Buchan on works by other Scottish writers, published or considered for publication by Nelson. Authors R. M. Ballantyne Letter to G. M. Brown on works by Ballantyne where Nelson hold the copyright, 15 March 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/45)Letter to G. M. Brown on Ballantyne’s Martin Rattler, 28 July 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/295) J. M. Barrie Letter to G. M. Brown on Barrie’s opinion of cheap edition of Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery, 28 January 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/207)Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Barrie’s plays, 17, 22 March 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/217)Letter to G. M. Brown on Barrie’s Der Tag, 5 February 1915 (Gen 1728/B/5/231) J. J. Bell Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Bell's Wee Macgregor, 22-30 December 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/352-54) James Boswell Correspondence with G. Graham on Boswell and Johnson's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 4 October 1923, 16 April, 12 June 1924 (Gen 1728/B/11/209, 367, 404) John Brandane Correspondence with G. Graham on Brandane's My Lady of Aros, 21 February-12 May 1924 (Gen 1728/B/11/323, 365-89) George Douglas Brown Correspondence with G. Graham on Brown's The House with the Green Shutters, 28 September, 9 December 1920 (Gen 1728/B/9/112, 149) John Brown Letter to G. Graham on Brown’s Horae Subsecivae, 8 May 1927 (Gen 1728/B/13/293) Robert Burns Correspondence with G. Graham on Burns's poems and letters, 31 October 1922, 16-21 June 1926 (Gen 1728/B/10/215, Gen 1728/B/13/140, 143-44) Thomas Carlyle Correspondence with G. Graham on Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, 31 March, 16 April, 12 June 1924 (Gen 1728/B/11/347, 367, 404)Correspondence with G. Graham on Carlyle’s Selected Essays, 18-26 May 1927 (Gen 1728/B/13/293-96) J. Storer Clouston Letters to T. A. Nelson on Clouston's The Prodigal Father, 8, 10 March 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/17, 19)Letters to G. M. Brown on Clouston's The Prodigal Father, 1, 6 April, 17 May 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/216, 226, 262)Letters to G. M. Brown on a play by Clouston, 6, 11 January 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/136, 140) S. R. Crockett Letters to T. A. Nelson about Crockett’s Rogues’ Island, 3 November and 5 December 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/277, 287)Letter from G. M. Brown about Crockett’s The Raiders, 6 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/211)Letter from G. M. Brown about Crockett’s Cleg Kelly and Kit Kennedy, 19 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/232)Letter from G. M. Brown about Crockett’s Cinderella and Kit Kennedy, 4, 6 November 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/266, 270) O. Douglas Letter to G. M. Brown on O. Douglas's The Setons, 11 February 1920 (Gen 1728/B/9/19)Letter to G. M. Brown on O. Douglas's Penny Plain, 24 August 1920 (Gen 1728/B/9/105)Letter from G. Graham on O. Douglas's Penny Plain and The Setons, 31 July 1925 (Gen 1728/B/12/204-205)Correspondence with G. Graham on O. Douglas's Anne and her Mother, Pink Sugar, and The Proper Place, 27 September-6 October 1927 (Gen 1728/B/13/330-31, 334-35)Correspondence with G. Graham on O. Douglas's Olivia and The Proper Place, 18 December 1928-4 January 1929 (Gen 1728/B/14/111-14)Letter from G. Graham on novels by O. Douglas, 25 October 1929 (Gen 1728/B/14/143)Correspondence with G. Graham on O. Douglas's Eliza for Common, 5-19 November 1929 (Gen 1728/B/14/149-50, 154-55)*'O. Douglas' was the pen-name of John Buchan's novelist sister Anna Masterton Buchan. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Letter to G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle’s Mystery of Cloomber, 12 January 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/143)Letter to G. M. Brown on international copyright of Conan Doyle's works, 1 April 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/217)Letter to G. M. Brown on French translation of Conan Doyle's 'The Captain of the Pole-Star', 10 November 1910 (Gen 1728/B/2/189)Correspondence between Buchan and G. M. Brown on Sherlock Holmes books, May 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/82, 84)Letter to T. A. Nelson on Conan Doyle’s The Great Shadow, 16 March 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/254)Letter to T. A. Nelson on German translations of Conan Doyle, 10 January 1912 (Gen 1728/B/4/3)Letter to G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle's The Great Boer War, 17 May 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/273)Letter to G. M. Brown reporting that Conan Doyle is too busy to write on the war, 14 August 1914 (Gen 1728/B/5/73)Letter to G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear, 5 February 1915 (Gen 1728/B/5/231)Letter to G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle’s ‘History’ (The British Campaign in France and Flanders?), 23 April 1915 (Gen 1728/B/5/347)Letters from G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel, 19, 26 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/232, 248)Letter from G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle's The Last Galley, 26 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/248)Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle's Rodney Stone, 25 January, 21 September, 6, 19 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/16, 202, 211, 232), 13 October 1919 (Gen 1728/B/8/224)Letter from G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear, 10 February 1917 (Gen 1728/B/7/49)Letter to Ian Nelson on Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures, 8 July 1925 (Gen 1728/B/12/184)Letter from Ian Nelson on Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures, 9 July 1925 (Gen 1728/B/12/186) Susan Ferrier Letter to G. M. Brown on unspecified novel by Susan Ferrier, 15 March 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/45) Jane Findlater Letter to G. M. Brown on Jane Findlater's The Ladder to the Stars, 21 October, 4, 8 November 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/389, 403, 409) Mary Findlater Letter to G. M. Brown on Mary Findlater's Over the Hills, 6 November 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/272)Letter to Miss Alcock on Mary Findlater's Over the Hills, 8 November 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/277) John Galt Letter to G. M. Brown on fiction by Galt, 15 March 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/45)Correspondence with G. Graham on Galt's Annals of the Parish, 18-20 May 1927 (Gen 1728/B/3/293-94) Kenneth Grahame Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Grahame's Dream Days, 19 April, 12, 25-26 May, 23 October 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/244, 257, 271-72, 397-98), 21 January 1910 (Gen 1728/B/2/17), 17 May 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/273)Letter to G. M. Brown on Grahame's The Golden Age, 17 May 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/273) Letter to G. Graham on Grahame's The Golden Age, 25 April 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/370) Letter from G. M. Brown on Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, 3 February 1917 (Gen 1728/B/7/35) Ian Hay Letter to T. A. Nelson on Hay's The Right Stuff, 6 April 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/33)Hay mentioned in letter from G. M. Brown, 7 April 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/228)Possible new novel by Hay mentioned in letter to T. A. Nelson, 22 April 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/37)Letters to G. M. Brown on Hay's A Knight on Wheels, 5 February, 31 May 1915 (Gen 1728/B/5/231, 362)Letters to G. M. Brown on Hay's The First Hundred Thousand, 11, 18 September 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/193, 197)Letter to Mr Graham on The First Hundred Thousand, 8 February 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/364)Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Hay's Carrying on, 10-11, 24 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/215, 218, 244), 11, 28 January 1918 (Gen 1728/B/8/8, 11) James Hogg Letters to G. M. Brown on Hogg’s short fiction, 9 July, 25 October 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/334, 398)Letter to G. M. Brown on selections from Hogg, 15 March 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/45 Violet Jacob Letter to T. A. Nelson on Jacob's Flemington and The Interloper, 20 February 1912 (Gen 1728/B/4/15)Letter to T. A. Nelson on Jacob's The Interloper, 28 March 1912 (Gen 1728/B/4/41) Andrew Lang Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Lang’s Maid of France, 12-19 July 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/337, 340, 342-46)Correspondence with G. M. Brown on French translation of Maid of France, 23 November 1909-28 June 1910 (Gen 1728/B/1/425, 434-35, 455 and Gen 1728/B/2/16, 22-24, 55, 66, 83, 87, 120, 134-35)Letter to T. A. Nelson on French translation of Maid of France, 18 May 1910 (Gen 1728/B/2/311) Compton Mackenzie Letter to G. M. Brown disapproving of 'strong sexual element' in Compton Mackenzie’s books, 25 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/245)Mackenzie's novels discussed in letters to Miss Alcock, 28 October, 6 November 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/256, 273)Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Mackenzie’s Guy and Pauline, 10, 12 February 1917, 10 February 1920 (Gen 1728/B/7/48, 49, Gen 1728/B/9/18)Letter from G. M. Brown on Mackenzie’s Poor Relations, 14 November 1919 (Gen 1728/B/8/242)Letters to G. M. Brown on Mackenzie’s Poor Relations (‘an excellent book for the Continental Library’), 18 November 1919, 11 February 1920 (Gen 1728/B/8/244, Gen 1728/B/9/19) Walter Scott Correspondence with G. Graham and 'Mr Kerr' on Scott’s Journal, 28 April 1925-23 March 1927 (Gen 1728/B/12/104-21, Gen 1728/B/13/270-82) Robert Louis Stevenson Correspondence with G. Graham on works by Stevenson, 22 August 1924-16 September 1927 (Gen 1728/B/11/456, 479, Gen 1728/B/12/32-67, 71, 189, Gen 1728/B/13/287-329)Letter with G. Graham on Nelson edition of Virginibusque Puerisque, 3-5 December 1924 (Gen 1728/B/11/481, 485)Correspondence with G. Graham on Nelson edition of Valima Letters, 7-25 July 1927 (Gen 1728/B/13/316-25) and 30 March-11 April 1928 (Gen 1728/B/14/25-38) Further Details For further information, see Handlist H25.1, which lists all of the Buchan letters in the Papers of Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, and which may be consulted in the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Library. Related Links Archives and Manuscripts CatalogueRecords of Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. This article was published on 2024-08-21