Helen Cruickshank Materials in Other EUL Collections

This page lists material of Cruickshank interest in other Edinburgh University Library Collections, including letters from Cruickshank to George Mackay Brown, Hamish Henderson, Hugh MacDiarmid, Maurice Lindsay, and Tom Scott, and manuscripts of poems by Cruickshank.

Collections

George Mackay Brown (Coll-50)

  • 2 letters from Mackay Brown to Cruickshank, 29 December 1965 and 21 January 1966 (Gen 1779)

Hamish Henderson (Coll-1438)

  • 19 letters and 7 cards from Cruickshank to Henderson, 1952-74 (E2013.07, Box 9, Folder 4)

      • Maurice Lindsay (Coll-56)

      • 12 letters, 1948-67, and 1 undated postcard from Cruickshank (Gen 2030/30/120)

      There are attached materials relating to Lindsay's and Cruickshank's edition of the Selected Poems of Marion Angus (1950).

      Hugh MacDiarmid (Coll-18)

      Correspondence

      • 51 letters and 12 postcards from Cruickshank to MacDiarmid, 1932-72 (with 3 letters and 2 postcards to Valda Grieve) (MS 2946.9)
      • Telegram, [February 1935), informing MacDiarmid of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's death (MS 2955.12/2)

      Poems by Cruickshank

      • 'Dirge: For One Self-Destroyed', TS, with MS annotations (Gen 2132/87)
      • 'Epistle to Hugh MacDiarmid', TS (MS 2962.1/43)

      Cruickshank is also mentioned in letters to MacDiarmid from (amongst others): W. R. Aitken (MS 2942.2), Morven Cameron (MS 2954.2), Catherine Carswell (MS2946.1), Hamish Henderson (MS 2951.3), Ian Holroyd (MS 2951.6), Archie Lamont (MS 2952), Bessie MacArthur (MS 2953.6), Dugald MacColl (MS 2953.9), F. Marian McNeill (MS 2955.2), and William Soutar (MS 2960.18).

      Ian S. Munro (Gen 2188)

      • 8 letters from Lewis Grassic Gibbon to Cruickshank, and 6 TS copies of letters, 1932-35 (Gen 2188/1)
      • 79 letters, 6 cards, and 1 postcard from Cruickshank to Munro, 1958-74, mostly on Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Gen 2188/1)

      Photographs of Scottish Writers (Coll-1070)

      • 2 photographs of Cruickshank by Gordon Wright, 1968 and (with Vincent Butler) 1969 (E89/45/1)

      Records of Scottish International Review (Coll-232)

      • Photograph of Cruickshank, ca. 1970 (Gen 2159/2)

      Tom Scott (Coll-1077)

      • 2 letters from Cruickshank, 9 and 22 January 1965 (E95.02)
      • Cruickshank mentioned in letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to Tom Scott, 15 April 1975 (E2001.34)
      • Mentioned in letter from Alexander Scott to Tom Scott, 4 August 1967 (E95.02)

      Fred Urquhart (Coll-49)

      • Cruickshank discussed in Urquhart's essay 'Modern Scottish Poetry' [193-?] (MS 2803)

      Other

      Cruickshank is also mentioned in letters from the author John Stewart Buist (Adam Kennedy) to the art critic John Tonge, 1930-32 at Gen 767/10.

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