There are many further materials of MacDiarmid interest in other EUL Collections, including MacDiarmid manuscripts, letters from or about MacDiarmid, and both critical and creative writings on MacDiarmid. The following are among the highlights. Collections HTML George Mackay Brown (Coll-50) Writings on MacDiarmid 'Hugh MacDiarmid and the Rationalists' (1963), MS essay (Gen 1866/7) 'Meeting with Hugh MacDiarmid', for Chapman (11 August 1992), MS essay (MS 3112/5/6) Helen Cruickshank (Coll-81) Writings on MacDiarmid 'Epistle for Christopher Murray Grieve on his 75th Birthday', MS and TSS of poem, with notes (Gen 1929/20/6-7*) 'Four Contemporary Scots Poets: Lewis Spence, Marion Angus, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar' (1939), TS lecture to Colinton Literary Society (Gen 1929/4) 'Personal Notes on Hugh MacDiarmid', MS (Gen 1966/54) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 43 letters and 4 postcards from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, 1922-64 (with letters from Peggy and Valda Grieve) (Gen 886) Copy of letter from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, 20 May 1954 (Gen 1929/20/7) 17 letters and 1 Christmas card from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, 1954-72 (Gen 1929/21) Postcard, [12 May 1935?], and letter, 6 October 1972, from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, with 2 letters from Valda Grieve (Gen 1929/39/1-2) 2 letters from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, 23 August 1972 and 14 August 1974 (Gen 1966/10-11) 5 letters from Cruickshank to Valda Grieve, 1964-69 and 2 letters and 2 cards from Valda Grieve to Cruickshank, 1954-68 (Gen 1929/22) 1 letter from Valda Grieve to Cruickshank, [1972] (Gen 1966/12) Correspondence about MacDiarmid Letter from William Soutar to Cruickshank, 9 September 1935, about MacDiarmid’s stay in hospital in Perth (Gen 886/35) Letter from Francis G. Scott to Cruickshank, 19 December 1937, about MacDiarmid's financial difficulties (Gen 886/23) Other MacDiarmid Materials 21 photographs by Cruickshank of Hugh MacDiarmid and family (Gen 886/159-180) Graphological assessment of Hugh MacDiarmid by Marty Stewart (Gen 1929/23) David Daiches (Coll-694) 8 letters from MacDiarmid to Daiches, 1951-75 (E92.46) 4 letters from MacDiarmid to Daiches, 1952-74 (E92.70) Duncan Glen (Coll-1067) See below for the many-MacDiarmid related materials in EUL's Duncan Glen Papers: Hugh MacDiarmid Materials in the Duncan Glen Papers HTML Hamish Henderson (Coll-1438) Writings by MacDiarmid ‘Etika Preobrazhennavo Erosa’, incomplete MS of poem, 4 ff. (E2013.07, Box 54, Folder 5) ‘The Seamless Garment’, MS of poem, 5 ff. (E2013.07, Box 54, Folder 5) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 15 letters from MacDiarmid to Henderson, 1949-70 (E84.67) 6 letters from MacDiarmid to Henderson, 1957-75 (E89.90) Letter from MacDiarmid to Henderson, 9 April 1958 (E93.70) Copies of 8 letters from MacDiarmid to Henderson, 1951-75 (E2013.07, Box 16, Folder 4) Copies of 3 letters from Henderson to MacDiarmid, 17 March & 9 June 1970, 16 July 1972 (E2013.07, Box 16, Folder 3) Copy of letter from MacDiarmid to Forbes Macgregor, 12 February 1964 (E2013.07, Box 16, Folder 3) Copies of letters on MacDiarmid from Henderson to Erich Heller, 5 July 1969 and 19 March 1970 (E2013.07, Box 16, Folder 3) The ‘Jabberwock’ Archive (Coll-1611) MSS by MacDiarmid ‘R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)’, TS of essay submitted to The Jabberwock (E2015.15) ‘The Scottish Renaissance: The Next Step’, TS of essay submitted to The Jabberwock (E2015.15) ‘The Significance of Sydney Goodsir Smith’, TS of essay submitted to The Jabberwock (E2015.15) Correspondence 6 letters from MacDiarmid to Ian F. Holroyd, Editor of The Jabberwock (23 November 1950, 15 March 1951, 17 October 1951, 8 May 1952, 13 January 1953, 29 October 1953) (E2015.15) Maurice Lindsay (Coll-56) Writings 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) Writings 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) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 53 letters from MacDiarmid to Lindsay, 1944-75 (with copy of letter from Lindsay dated 25 March 1949) (Gen 2030/30/234-288) Norman MacCaig (Coll-69) Writings on MacDiarmid 'Hugh MacDiarmid’, MS and TS poem (MS 3198/46-47) 'Hugh MacDiarmid's Lyrics', MS and TS poem (MS 3198/62-63) 'Hugh MacDiarmid', MS poem(MS 3198/123) 'Two Thoughts of MacDiarmid in a Quiet Place', MS and TS poem (MS 3199/223-224) 'The Indivisible Man', TS of radio broadcast on MacDiarmid transmitted 3 July 1957 (MS 3202/15/12) TS review of MacDiarmid's Stony Limits and Scots Unbound, broadcast on Arts Review (BBC Scottish Home Service), 19 March 1957(MS 3203/1/10) MS review of MacDiarmid's Collected Poems, 1920-1976(MS 3203/4/9) MS review of The Uncanny Scot, ed. K. Buthlay (MS 3203/4/41) Notes on MacDiarmid’s Lucky Poet, TS and MS (MS 3202/15/4) Notes on MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. TS and MS (MS 3202/15/5-6, MS 3202/15/8-9, MS 3203/2/19) Notes on MacDiarmid’s To Circumjack Cencrastus, TS and MS (MS 3202/15/7) 'A Note on the Author', MS and TS (MS 3202/15/10) Miscellaneous notes on MacDiarmid (MS 3202/15/13) 'Introduction to MacD. for 17 year olds, Feb. 1981'. MS notes (MS 3203/2/8) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 2 letters from MacDiarmid to MacCaig, 8 December 1952 and undated (1954?) (MS 3204/2/9) There are also inscription copies of books by MacDiarmid in Edinburgh University Library's collection of Books from Norman MacCaig's Library. Books from Norman MacCaig's Library HTML Photographs of Scottish Writers (Coll-1070) 3 photographs of MacDiarmid by Gordon Wright, 1968, 1976 (both E89/45/1) and 1978 (E89/45/5) Photograph of MacDiarmid with Valda Grieve, 1976, by Gordon Wright (E89/45/4) Photograph of MacDiarmid with Edwin Morgan, 1977, by Gordon Wright (E89/45/4) Photograph of MacDiarmid with Norman MacCaig, 1977, by Gordon Wright (E89/45/5) Records of Scottish International Review (Coll-232) Letter from MacDiarmid to Robert Tait, editor of Scottish International Review, 9 October 1967(Gen. 2159/2) Photograph of MacDiarmid by Oscar Marzaroli (Gen. 2159/1) Photograph of MacDiarmid, uncredited (Gen. 2159/2) TS of review (by Arthur Marwick) of Celtic Nationalism by Owen Dudley Edwards, Gwynfor Evans, Ioan Rhys, and Hugh MacDiarmid (Gen. 2159/2) TS of review (by John MacQueen) of Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. Duncan Glen (Gen. 2159/2) TS of review (by Robert Garioch) of A Small Press and Hugh MacDiarmid by Duncan Glen and 'recent Akros publications' (Gen. 2159/2) Tom Scott (Coll-1077) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 61 letters and 1 card from MacDiarmid to Scott, 1956-77 (E2001.34) Postcard from MacDiarmid to Scott, 19 May 1975 (E95.02) Sydney Goodsir Smith (Coll-497) Writings by MacDiarmid Preface to Smith's Carotid Cornucopius, TS (Gen 1761) Writings on MacDiarmid 'To Hugh MacDiarmid: On Yet Anither Buffday Occasion'(1967), MS, 2 corrected TSS, and radio script of celebratory poem by Smith (Gen 1771) Correspondence with MacDiarmid Letter from MacDiarmid to Smith, 24 February 1959, about a radio broadcast on Robert Burns (AAF) 2 letters from MacDiarmid to Smith, 2 May 1963 and 18 October 1964, about Smith’s Carotid Cornucopius (Gen 1769) Fred Urquhart (Coll-49) Writings on MacDiarmid MacDiarmid discussed in Urquhart's essay 'Modern Scottish Poetry' [193-?] (MS 2803) MS review of The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. Alan Bold, for the Times Educational Supplement [1984] (MS 2823) Correspondence about MacDiarmid Mentioned in 2 letters from Maurice Lindsay to Urquhart, 10 March and 27 April 1944 (MS 2838) Mentioned in 2 letters from Alexander Reid to Urquhart, 12 June 1944 and 30 January 1945 (MS 2833) Mentioned in letter from Dorothy K. Haynes to Urquhart, 9 April 1945 (MS 2833) Mentioned in letter from Dorothy K. Haynes to Urquhart, 10 June 1947 (MS 2837) Mentioned in copies of 3 letters from Urquhart to Maurice Lindsay, 14 June 1982, 2 February, and 23 March 1984 (MS 2838) Related Links Archives & Manuscripts Catalogue This article was published on 2024-08-21
HTML George Mackay Brown (Coll-50) Writings on MacDiarmid 'Hugh MacDiarmid and the Rationalists' (1963), MS essay (Gen 1866/7) 'Meeting with Hugh MacDiarmid', for Chapman (11 August 1992), MS essay (MS 3112/5/6) Helen Cruickshank (Coll-81) Writings on MacDiarmid 'Epistle for Christopher Murray Grieve on his 75th Birthday', MS and TSS of poem, with notes (Gen 1929/20/6-7*) 'Four Contemporary Scots Poets: Lewis Spence, Marion Angus, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar' (1939), TS lecture to Colinton Literary Society (Gen 1929/4) 'Personal Notes on Hugh MacDiarmid', MS (Gen 1966/54) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 43 letters and 4 postcards from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, 1922-64 (with letters from Peggy and Valda Grieve) (Gen 886) Copy of letter from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, 20 May 1954 (Gen 1929/20/7) 17 letters and 1 Christmas card from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, 1954-72 (Gen 1929/21) Postcard, [12 May 1935?], and letter, 6 October 1972, from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, with 2 letters from Valda Grieve (Gen 1929/39/1-2) 2 letters from MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, 23 August 1972 and 14 August 1974 (Gen 1966/10-11) 5 letters from Cruickshank to Valda Grieve, 1964-69 and 2 letters and 2 cards from Valda Grieve to Cruickshank, 1954-68 (Gen 1929/22) 1 letter from Valda Grieve to Cruickshank, [1972] (Gen 1966/12) Correspondence about MacDiarmid Letter from William Soutar to Cruickshank, 9 September 1935, about MacDiarmid’s stay in hospital in Perth (Gen 886/35) Letter from Francis G. Scott to Cruickshank, 19 December 1937, about MacDiarmid's financial difficulties (Gen 886/23) Other MacDiarmid Materials 21 photographs by Cruickshank of Hugh MacDiarmid and family (Gen 886/159-180) Graphological assessment of Hugh MacDiarmid by Marty Stewart (Gen 1929/23) David Daiches (Coll-694) 8 letters from MacDiarmid to Daiches, 1951-75 (E92.46) 4 letters from MacDiarmid to Daiches, 1952-74 (E92.70)
HTML Hamish Henderson (Coll-1438) Writings by MacDiarmid ‘Etika Preobrazhennavo Erosa’, incomplete MS of poem, 4 ff. (E2013.07, Box 54, Folder 5) ‘The Seamless Garment’, MS of poem, 5 ff. (E2013.07, Box 54, Folder 5) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 15 letters from MacDiarmid to Henderson, 1949-70 (E84.67) 6 letters from MacDiarmid to Henderson, 1957-75 (E89.90) Letter from MacDiarmid to Henderson, 9 April 1958 (E93.70) Copies of 8 letters from MacDiarmid to Henderson, 1951-75 (E2013.07, Box 16, Folder 4) Copies of 3 letters from Henderson to MacDiarmid, 17 March & 9 June 1970, 16 July 1972 (E2013.07, Box 16, Folder 3) Copy of letter from MacDiarmid to Forbes Macgregor, 12 February 1964 (E2013.07, Box 16, Folder 3) Copies of letters on MacDiarmid from Henderson to Erich Heller, 5 July 1969 and 19 March 1970 (E2013.07, Box 16, Folder 3) The ‘Jabberwock’ Archive (Coll-1611) MSS by MacDiarmid ‘R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)’, TS of essay submitted to The Jabberwock (E2015.15) ‘The Scottish Renaissance: The Next Step’, TS of essay submitted to The Jabberwock (E2015.15) ‘The Significance of Sydney Goodsir Smith’, TS of essay submitted to The Jabberwock (E2015.15) Correspondence 6 letters from MacDiarmid to Ian F. Holroyd, Editor of The Jabberwock (23 November 1950, 15 March 1951, 17 October 1951, 8 May 1952, 13 January 1953, 29 October 1953) (E2015.15) Maurice Lindsay (Coll-56) Writings 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) Writings 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) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 53 letters from MacDiarmid to Lindsay, 1944-75 (with copy of letter from Lindsay dated 25 March 1949) (Gen 2030/30/234-288) Norman MacCaig (Coll-69) Writings on MacDiarmid 'Hugh MacDiarmid’, MS and TS poem (MS 3198/46-47) 'Hugh MacDiarmid's Lyrics', MS and TS poem (MS 3198/62-63) 'Hugh MacDiarmid', MS poem(MS 3198/123) 'Two Thoughts of MacDiarmid in a Quiet Place', MS and TS poem (MS 3199/223-224) 'The Indivisible Man', TS of radio broadcast on MacDiarmid transmitted 3 July 1957 (MS 3202/15/12) TS review of MacDiarmid's Stony Limits and Scots Unbound, broadcast on Arts Review (BBC Scottish Home Service), 19 March 1957(MS 3203/1/10) MS review of MacDiarmid's Collected Poems, 1920-1976(MS 3203/4/9) MS review of The Uncanny Scot, ed. K. Buthlay (MS 3203/4/41) Notes on MacDiarmid’s Lucky Poet, TS and MS (MS 3202/15/4) Notes on MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. TS and MS (MS 3202/15/5-6, MS 3202/15/8-9, MS 3203/2/19) Notes on MacDiarmid’s To Circumjack Cencrastus, TS and MS (MS 3202/15/7) 'A Note on the Author', MS and TS (MS 3202/15/10) Miscellaneous notes on MacDiarmid (MS 3202/15/13) 'Introduction to MacD. for 17 year olds, Feb. 1981'. MS notes (MS 3203/2/8) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 2 letters from MacDiarmid to MacCaig, 8 December 1952 and undated (1954?) (MS 3204/2/9)
HTML Photographs of Scottish Writers (Coll-1070) 3 photographs of MacDiarmid by Gordon Wright, 1968, 1976 (both E89/45/1) and 1978 (E89/45/5) Photograph of MacDiarmid with Valda Grieve, 1976, by Gordon Wright (E89/45/4) Photograph of MacDiarmid with Edwin Morgan, 1977, by Gordon Wright (E89/45/4) Photograph of MacDiarmid with Norman MacCaig, 1977, by Gordon Wright (E89/45/5) Records of Scottish International Review (Coll-232) Letter from MacDiarmid to Robert Tait, editor of Scottish International Review, 9 October 1967(Gen. 2159/2) Photograph of MacDiarmid by Oscar Marzaroli (Gen. 2159/1) Photograph of MacDiarmid, uncredited (Gen. 2159/2) TS of review (by Arthur Marwick) of Celtic Nationalism by Owen Dudley Edwards, Gwynfor Evans, Ioan Rhys, and Hugh MacDiarmid (Gen. 2159/2) TS of review (by John MacQueen) of Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. Duncan Glen (Gen. 2159/2) TS of review (by Robert Garioch) of A Small Press and Hugh MacDiarmid by Duncan Glen and 'recent Akros publications' (Gen. 2159/2) Tom Scott (Coll-1077) Correspondence with MacDiarmid 61 letters and 1 card from MacDiarmid to Scott, 1956-77 (E2001.34) Postcard from MacDiarmid to Scott, 19 May 1975 (E95.02) Sydney Goodsir Smith (Coll-497) Writings by MacDiarmid Preface to Smith's Carotid Cornucopius, TS (Gen 1761) Writings on MacDiarmid 'To Hugh MacDiarmid: On Yet Anither Buffday Occasion'(1967), MS, 2 corrected TSS, and radio script of celebratory poem by Smith (Gen 1771) Correspondence with MacDiarmid Letter from MacDiarmid to Smith, 24 February 1959, about a radio broadcast on Robert Burns (AAF) 2 letters from MacDiarmid to Smith, 2 May 1963 and 18 October 1964, about Smith’s Carotid Cornucopius (Gen 1769) Fred Urquhart (Coll-49) Writings on MacDiarmid MacDiarmid discussed in Urquhart's essay 'Modern Scottish Poetry' [193-?] (MS 2803) MS review of The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. Alan Bold, for the Times Educational Supplement [1984] (MS 2823) Correspondence about MacDiarmid Mentioned in 2 letters from Maurice Lindsay to Urquhart, 10 March and 27 April 1944 (MS 2838) Mentioned in 2 letters from Alexander Reid to Urquhart, 12 June 1944 and 30 January 1945 (MS 2833) Mentioned in letter from Dorothy K. Haynes to Urquhart, 9 April 1945 (MS 2833) Mentioned in letter from Dorothy K. Haynes to Urquhart, 10 June 1947 (MS 2837) Mentioned in copies of 3 letters from Urquhart to Maurice Lindsay, 14 June 1982, 2 February, and 23 March 1984 (MS 2838)
