Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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237
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Repository
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Edinburgh University Library: Special Collections Division
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Reference
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GB237/Coll/18
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Title
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Letters to Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978)
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Dates
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pre 1978
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Access Status
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Open
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Access Conditions
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Contact the repository for details
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Description
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The collection of letters to Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) are organised alphabetically and into acquisitions pre-1987 (Gen. 2094) and material acquired more recently (MSS 2942-2961). The correspondents include private individuals and publishers; names such as William Darling, Richard Demarco, Eric Linklater, David Daiches, Norman MacCaig, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Bertrand Russell, and William Butler Yeats.
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Level
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Fonds
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Extent
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35 boxes, 1 large portfolio, 37 manuscript folders (6 linear metres)
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Finding Aids
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Handlist, H18.1; Handlist H18.2; Another important finding aid is the alphabetical Index to Manuscripts held at Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections and Archives. Additions to the typed slips in sheaf binders were made until 1987.
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Previous Numbers
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Gen.2094; MSS 2942-2961
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Format
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Undefined
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Related Material
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Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library also holds around 1,800 volumes from Grieve's (Hugh MacDiarmid's) library and this deposit contains books and periodicals, loose pamphlets, and miscellaneous material (all at SC 7000-8648 and SD 5950-6108). In addition, the Index to Manuscripts shows at various shelfmarks original manuscripts and proofs of Grieve's work, typescripts, notes and glossaries, miscellaneous essays on Scottish subjects, and letters of and to Grieve. There are a few other volumes from his library at shelfmark JA.
In addition there is a draft copy of the poem First hymn to Lenin (Coll-1100) at E2006.39.
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