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MS.27085-141 Literary notebooks, c1930-[1959], n.d. These are mostly school exercise books, used by MacDiarmid to draft poems and prose pieces, to make notes from his reading, and for other jottings. They include a draft introduction and part of The Birlinn of Clanranald, 1934 (MSS.27089-90); a reply to a review of The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry. 1940 (MS.27102); and parts of the introduction and chapters 6 and 9 of Lucky Poet. 1943 (MSS.27106-13). MS.27141 consists of translations of poems by the Bulgarian poets Botev and Smirnenski. Octavo. MS.27085. ?1931-5. 162 ff. MS.27086. ca.1930. 25+3 inverted ff. MS.27087. ca.1930-1936. 20 ff. MS.27088. ?1932. 95 ff. MS.27089-91. 1934. 90 ff.; 10 + 22 inverted ff.; 12 ff. MS.27092. ?1934. 58 ff. MS.27093-4. ca.1934. 54 ff.; 65 ff. MS.27095. 1935-9. 22 ff. MS.27096-8. ca.1935. 30 ff.; 56 ff.; 15 ff. MS.27099. ?1938. 20 ff. MS.27100. ca.1938. 28 ff. MS.27101. ?1939. 24 ff. MS.27102-3. 1940. 28 ff.; 11 ff. MS.27104. ca.1940, 5 ff. MS.27105-7. 1941. 34 ff.; 19 ff.; 19 ff. MS.27108-16. ?1941. 19 ff.; 32 ff.; 15 ff.; 16 ff.; 19 ff.; 34 ff.; 22 ff.; 12 ff.; 21 ff. MS.27117. 71941-2. 18 ff. MS.27118-21. ?1942. 9 ff.; 12 ff.; 11 ff.; 21 ff. MS.27122-5. ca.1942. 10 ff.; 5 ff.; 8 ff.; 24 ff. MS.27126. 1942-6. 36 ff. MS.27127. ca.1944. 7 ff. MS.27128. 1945. 74 ff. MS.27129. ca.1945. 45 ff. MS.27130. after 1945. 32 ff. MS.27131. 1947-8. 87 + many blank ff. MS.27132. 1948. 80 ff. MS.27133. ?1949. 24+2 inverted ff. MS.27134. 1950-2. 54 ff. MS.27135. 1955. 64 ff. MS.27136. ca.1955. 78 + many blank ff. MS.27137. 1956-7. 58 ff. MS.27138. 1958. 78 + many blank ff. MS.27139. ?1959. 3 + many blank ff. MS.27140-1. n.d. 19 + 21 inverted ff.; 29 ff. MS.27142 Loose leaves from notebooks, n.d., containing fragments of prose works, extracts from reading, occasional scraps of poetry, and miscellaneous notes. 113 ff. Octavo and under. MS.27143 Quotations and extracts from works by other writers, 1934-73, n.d. Many of these were incorporated by MacDiarmid into his own books, essays and lectures. 125 ff. MS.27144-7 Miscellaneous notes, 1934-77, n.d. Most of these are brief jottings or lists, frequently made on scraps of paper or the backs of envelopes. MS.27144. 1934-77, n.d. 177 ff. MS.27145. n.d. 200 ff. MS.27146. n.d. 151 ff. MS.27147. n.d. 163 ff.
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