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As well as writing books, MacDiarmid was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a MS was intended for publication or for a talk; material in this category has been included in MSS 27056-65 and 27084 MS.27034-54 Books MS.27055-68 Articles and short pieces MS.27069-76 Broadcasts and speeches MS.27077-82 Editorial, work MS.27083-4 Miscellaneous prose Books MS.27034 Manuscript of MacDiarmid's prose and verse contributions to Scottish Scene the intelligent man's guide to Albyn by MacDiarmid and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Lond., 1934. The plays 'Some day' and 'The Purple Patch' are represented by pages from the Scottish Nation. 30 Oct., 1923, and the Northern Review, May, 1924 (ff.76, 122). The MS also contains designs for the dust-jacket and titlepage which were not used (f.193). 194 ff. MS.27035 Typescript, with MS corrections, of 'Red Scotland', 1935. Originally entitled 'What Lenin has meant to Scotland', the work was never published in its entirety, though extracts appeared in Voice of Scotland and Lucky Poet. A substantial number of pages are missing. 246 ff. Quarto. MS.27036-40 Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of Lucky Poet. Lond., 1943. MacDiarmid originally submitted the text to a publisher in 1939 but was obliged to reduce its length very considerably. For his accounts of this, see his MS introduction (MS.27036, ff.l et seq.) and his prefaces to the editions of 1943 and 1972. MS.27036 Typescript, with MS corrections and insertions, 1940. The introduction is in MS. The volume includes (ff.303-12) a typescript on Queen Margaret de Logy which MacDiarmid later used as an article (see MS.27061, f.101) 765 ff. MS. 27037 Typescript, with a few MS pages. Much is missing, and the remainder consists largely of those chapters which were not included in the 1943 edition. 301 ff. Quarto and under. MS.27038 Miscellaneous manuscripts, typescripts and proofs. They include the preliminary pages (f.l), several drafts of the author's note, 1941-2 (f.l9), sections of text (f.112), index (f.135), and a variant version of the author's note to the reprint of 1971 (f.190). 202 ff. MS.27039 Imperfect typescript with MS corrections and additions. As well as the text as published, it includes part of two chapters which were excised: 'The Condition of Scotland today' (f.680) and 'My Best Friends' (f.719). Much of the latter was later published in Francis George Scott: an essay. Edin. , 1955. The versos of ff.323-400 passim have been used to compile an index. 856 ff. Quarto and under. MS.27040 Galley proofs with MS corrections. 160 ff. MS.27041 Partial MSS and typescripts of 'Carrying on with a broken back: postscript to a poet's autobiography'. Begun as the foreword to Lucky Poet, it became an essay on the problems of splitting up the work and other topics. The essay was not published in its entirety, but ff.59-68 were used in Francis George Scott. Edin., 1955. 180 ff. MS.27042 Partial MSS and typescripts, [1950], of Aesthetics in Scotland. The work was edited by A Bold, Edin., 1984, from a MS in Edinburgh University Library and a typescript in the People's Palace Museum, Glasgow. There are sections from several different MSS and typescript copies, followed (f.60) by passages from pp.29-30 and 88-90 of the published text, possibly intended for use in a speech or an article. Also included are some pages on aesthetics in Scotland which do not appear in the edition (f.66). 68 ff. Quarto. MS.27043 Manuscript of Cunninghame Graham: a centenary study. Glasgow, 1952. 67 ff. MS.27044-6 Manuscripts and typescripts of The Company I've Kept. Lond., 1966. MS.27044 Fair manuscript copy, with a few pages of typescript, with the title 'A Scottish Poet and his Friends'. All of Chapter 2 except the first page is missing. 369 ff. Quarto. MS.27045 Typescript marked up by the printer. 380 ff. Quarto. MS.27046 Fragmentary manuscripts, typescripts and proofs. They include draft lists of contents (f.l), an unpublished introduction (f.5), the text of most of chapter 7, apparently intended as an article entitled 'Ezra Pound and the Curse of Usury' (f.l3), pages of a notebook on 'A.E.', the author George William Russell (f.25), a corrected typescript of chapters 1-4 (f.41), and proofs of the preliminary pages (f.205). 214 ff. MS.27047 Typescript, marked up for the printer, of Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid. edited with an introduction by Duncan Glen, Lond., 1969. xi + 302 ff. Quarto. 27048-50 MS.27048-50 Manuscripts, typescript and proofs of MacDiarmid's translation of Bertolt Brecht's play The Threepenny Opera. Lond. 1973. MS.27048 Manuscript of the play. Act III scenes 1 and 2 are omitted, and there are two MSS of Act II scene 2. It is followed (f.123) by drafts of the songs and of Act III scene 4, and by a few pages of typescript. 198 ff. MS.27049 Typescript with MS corrections. 93 ff. Quarto. MS.27050 Galley proofs. 24 ff. MS.27051-4 Incomplete sections of books by MacDiarmid. MS.27051 (i) Partial MS and galley-proof of Francis George Scott, Edin. 1955 (f.l). (ii) Partial MS and galley-proof of Burns Today and Tomorrow. Edin, 1959 (f.l9). (iii) Partial MS of a work on Scottish literature, written before 1959 (f.64). ff.76-7, 88-93, 106-7 and 112-14 were used in Burns Today and Tomorrow. 127 ff. MS.27052 (i) MS of section I and corrected galley-proof of MacDiarmid's contribution to Celtic Nationalism. Lond. 1968 (f.l). (ii) MS of 'Four Scottish Poets', an unpublished work on Gavin Douglas, Byron, Burns and James Macpherson, 1971 (f.42). The section on Burns is missing, and there are two MSS of the section on Byron (ff.67, 105). Ill ff. MS.27053 Partial typescript probably of 'A Pageant of Scottish Doctors', a book which was advertised in 1938, but never published. It contains the contents list and parts of chapters 4 and 5. 75 ff. Quarto. MS.27054 Typescript of 'Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Landscape by Valda Trevlyn' [1939]. The first two chapters of a study of MacDiarmid's philosophy probably written by the poet himself but attributed to his wife. The MS corrections are in his hand. 80 ff. Quarto. Articles and short pieces MS.27055 Manuscripts of ten articles written under the pseudonym 'Mountboy' for the Scottish Secretariat, 1927-8. These weekly 'causeries' were syndicated to local newspapers throughout Scotland. 85 ff. Quarto and under. MS.27056-63 Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles and essays, 1933-77, nd. While most of them are on literary topics, they also include such diverse subjects as the Faroe Islands, hill-farming, politics, and the Edinburgh Festival. Many were published in a wide range of newspapers periodicals. Some are incomplete and some survive only as drafts. MS.27056 1933-47. 203 ff MS.27057 1948-52. 181 ff MS.27058 1953-60. 209 ff MS.27059 1961-7. 216 ff MS.27069 1969-77. 199 ff MS. 27061. n.d. 165 ff MS. 27062. n.d. 154 ff MS. 27063. n.d. 186 ff MS.27064-5 Fragments of articles and books, ca.1936-1966, n.d. Some of these are quite substantial, but others are single pages only. Most have not been identified. MS.27065 includes a large part of an intended book, c1936 on Scottish literature and the Scottish Renaissance Movement (f.l). MS.27064. Manuscripts, ca.1948-1966, n.d. 205 ff. MS.27065. Typescripts and proof, ca.1936-1950, n.d. 120 ff. MS.27066 Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, and a newspaper cutting of short stories, 1923-61, n.d. Also included is the MS of 'Lechois', a one-act play, nd (f.89). 187 ff. MS.27067 Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of introductions and prefaces, 1936-78, n.d., by MacDiarmid to some of his own works as well as to works by other writers. They include fragments of the introduction to MacDiarmid's proposed biography of John Maclean, 1936 (f.l), the introduction to his unpublished long poem 'Impavidi Progrediamur', 1956 (f.58), and a partial typescript of the introductory essay to an anthology of work by contemporary Scottish poets, n.d. (f.212). 222 ff. MS.27068 Manuscripts, typescripts and a newspaper cutting of reviews by MacDiarmid, 1936-77, n.d. 162 ff. MS.27069-70 Broadcasts and Speeches Manuscripts and typescripts of broadcasts, mostly on literary subjects 1947-67, n.d. MS.27069. 1947-54. 162 ff. MS.27070. 1955-67, n.d. 136 ff. MS.27071-6 Speeches, talks and lectures given by MacDiarmid, 1947-76, n.d. While some are the final texts, others are in the form of notes or drafts. MS.27071 consists of speeches on Burns, mostly delivered at Burns Suppers MSS.27072-6 contain material on literature, art, nationalism, Scottish independence, and other topics. For MacDiarmid's political speeches, see MS.27203. MS.27071. c1950-[1971], n.d. 141 ff. MS.27072. 1947-52. 171 ff. MS.27073. 1953-63. 208 ff. MS.27074. 1964-76. 150 ff. MS.27075. n.d. 147 ff. MS.27076. Fragments of speeches, [1954]-1965, n.d. 97 ff. MS.27077 Editorial Work (i) Fragmentary MSS and typescripts of The Golden Treasury of SCOTTISH Poetry, selected and edited by MacDiarmid, Lond., 1940 (f.l). It includes a letter of MacDiarmid to the publisher commenting on the introduction. (f.58). (ii) Draft introduction, notes and partial typescript of an anthology of work by Scottish poets, ca.1950 (f.64). (iii) Introduction and part of the text and page-proofs of Selected Poems of William Dunbar. edited by MacDiarmid for the Grey Walls Press in 1950 (f.84). The book did not appear until 1955, when it was published by William Maclellan in Glasgow. There is a memorandum, 1953, concerning MacDiarmid's dispute with the Press (f.110). For further proofs, see MS.27078. (iv) Partial MS of the introduction, and incomplete typescript of Selections from the poems of William Dunbar in the Saltire Classics series, Edin., 1952 (r.110). MS.27082 Synopses, contents lists, and preliminary pages of intended publications, [1935]-c1975, n.d. While some of these are complete and take the form in which they were submitted to publishers, many are merely brief notes of ideas for books, and possibly for material to be used in talks and articles 156 ff. Miscellaneous Prose MS.27083 Autobiographical pieces, [1936], n.d. Some of these may have been intended for an early version of Lucky Poet, and others were probably written for publicity purposes. 63 ff. MS.27084 Fragments of unidentified prose pieces, 1940-50, n.d. Some have been jotted on scraps of paper, and others are loose pages from articles, speeches or other more substantial prose works. 240 ff.
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