Lindsay Materials on Other Scottish Authors

The Maurice Lindsay Papers (Coll-56) contain materials on or by a number of other Scottish writers represented in EUL Special Collections.

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Of particular interest are manuscripts of poems and essays by Hugh MacDiarmid and an early typescript of Sydney Goodsir Smith's Under the Eildon Tree.

Authors

Marion Angus

  • Correspondence between Maurice Lindsay and Helen B. Cruickshank on their edition of Selected Poems of Marion Angus (1950) (Gen 2030/30/120)

John Davidson

  • Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Maurice Lindsay on Davidson's suicide, 7 February 1950 (Gen 2030/31/166)

Robert Garioch

  • Poems by Robert Garioch, TS portfolio (Gen 2030/31/229-230)

Neil M. Gunn

  • TS review by Neil M. Gunn of Lindsay's anthology Modern Scottish Poetry (1946) (Gen 2030/24b)

Eric Linklater

  • Script of questions for interview with Linklater, Borderline, Border Television, 25 May 1962 (Gen 2030/29)

Norman MacCaig

  • Radio script of 'Poet's Choice' by MacCaig, Scottish Life and Letters, BBC Scottish Home Service, 27 September 1953 (Gen 2030/27)
  • Radio script of debate between MacCaig and Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotland Today, BBC Scottish Home Service, 19 February 1964 (Gen 2030/28)

Hugh MacDiarmid

Materials on MacDiarmid

  • ‘Hugh MacDiarmid: The Greatest Scot’, TS article (Gen 2030/24b)
  • Script of questions for interview with MacDiarmid, Borderline, Border Television, March 1962 (Gen 2030/29)

Materials by MacDiarmid

  • 'Bonnie Birdie A' Aflocht' and 'When the Birds Come Back to Rhiannon', MS poems (Gen 2030/30/294-295)
  • 'Extracts from my Journals (Second Instalment)', MS (Gen 2030/30/292)
  • 'John Davidson: Influences and Influence', MS essay (Gen 2030/30/290)
  • 'Robert Burns', MS essay (Gen 2030/30/293)
  • 'William Soutar', MS essay (Gen 2030/30/289)
  • MS essay on the Scottish Renaissance movement (Gen 2030/30/291)
  • Radio script of tribute by MacDiarmid to W. E. Henley, Scottish Life and Letters, BBC Scottish Home Service, 14 September 1949 (Gen 2030/27)
  • Radio script of tribute by MacDiarmid to Robert Fergusson, Scottish Life and Letters, BBC Scottish Home Service, 8 September 1950 (Gen 2030/27)
  • Radio Script of 'Poet's Choice' by MacDiarmid, Scottish Life and Letters, BBC Scottish Home Service, 24 January 1954 (Gen 2030/27)
  • Radio script of tribute by MacDiarmid to John Davidson, BBC Scottish Home Service, 7 April 1957 (Gen 2030/27)
  • Radio script of debate between MacDiarmid and Norman MacCaig, Scotland Today, BBC Scottish Home Service, 19 February 1964 (Gen 2030/28)

Compton Mackenzie

  • Script of questions for interview with Mackenzie, Borderline, Border Television, 24 November 1961 (Gen 2030/29)

Edwin Morgan

  • Script of contribution by Morgan to Scotland Today, BBC Scottish Home Service, 19 February 1964 (Gen 2030/28)

Tom Scott

  • Script of contribution by Scott to Scotland Today, BBC Scottish Home Service, 19 February 1964 (Gen 2030/28)

Sydney Goodsir Smith

Smith Manuscripts

  • 'The Gangrel Rimer and the Absolutioun o Sanct Ann' (1945), TS poem (with MS corrections) (Gen 2030/31/200)
  • Under the Eildon Tree: XXIII Elegies for Deirdre (1947), carbon TS (with MS corrections) (Gen 2030/31/199)

Critical Materials

  • Review of Smith’s The Deevil’s Waltz (1946) by R. Crombie Saunders (Gen 2030/24b)
  • Script of radio review of Smith's poems by John Speirs, Arts Review, BBC Scottish Home Service, 3 March 1948 (Gen 2030/26b)

William Soutar

  • 'William Soutar', MS of essay by Hugh MacDiarmid published in Poetry Scotland, 2 (1945) (Gen 2030/30/289)
  • Letter from MacDiarmid to Lindsay on proofs of above essay, [1945] (Gen 203/30/287)

Lewis Spence

  • 'Romance in Little', MS of poem by Spence (Gen 2030/30/210)
  • Correspondence between Lindsay and The Scottish Daily Mail on Spence's article 'Away with this Farrago of Pidgin Doric', 5 October-1 November 1948 (Gen 2030/30/201-208)

Douglas Young

  • Edinburgh in the Age of Sir Walter Scott, MS of Chapter 1 (Gen 2030/31/314)
  • 'Rabbie in Plastics', carbon TS (1947) (Gen 2030/31/264-265)

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