Tom Scott Materials in Other EUL Collections

George Mackay Brown (Coll-50)

• Review by Brown of Scott's long poem The Dirty Business, for The Scotsman (18 December 1986) (MS 2845/1/23)

Helen Cruickshank (Coll-81)

• Letter from Scott to Cruickshank, 14 November 1971, on Cruickshank's Collected Poems (Gen 1966/68-70)
• Presentation copy of Scott's volume At the Shrine o the Unkent Sodger (1968) (JA 3376)

David Daiches (Coll-694)

• Letter, 28 April 1953, and postcard, 25 August 1953, from Scott to Daiches (E92.46)

Hamish Henderson (Coll-1438)

• ‘Morningside Cemetery: Burial of Stuart MacGregor’, TS of poem by Scott (E2013.07, Box 22, Folder 4)
• 25 letters from Scott to Henderson, 1953-84 (E2013.07, Box 22, Folder 4)
• Copies of 9 letters from Henderson to Scott, 1964-73 (E2013.07, Box 22, Folder 4)
• Copy of unpublished letter from Scott to The Scotsman, 18 May 1973 (E2013.07, Box 22, Folder 4)
• Copy of letter from Scott to Otto Schönfeldt, 1 December 1972 (E2013.07, Box 22, Folder 4)
• Transcript of letter from Scott to The Scotsman supporting Henderson’s decision to turn down an O.B.E., 13 December 1983 (E2013.07, Box 2, Folder 4)

Maurice Lindsay (Coll-56)

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

Norman MacCaig (Coll-69)

• Letter from Scott to MacCaig, discussing MacDiarmid's In Memoriam James Joyce [1955] (E2006.40)
• TS of Scott''s poem 'A Dregy for T. S. Eliot' included in anthology of Scottish verse edited by MacCaig for Poetry Review (ca. 1965) (Gen 767/28/13)

Hugh MacDiarmid (Coll-18)

Correspondence

• 104 letters and 7 postcards from Scott to MacDiarmid, 1953-77 + 1 letter to Valda Grieve (MS 2960.6)

Scott is also mention in letters to MacDiarmid from William Cookson (MS2946.5), Duncan Glen (MS 2948.9), and John Herdman (MS 2962/4/62-63).

MSS of Poems by Tom Scott

• ‘A Ballat o Lagos’ (1953), TS (MS 2960.6/9)
• 'Dum Spiro Spero' (1943?), TS (MS 2983)
• ‘Finale – A Gangrel’s Quair’ (1953), TS (MS 2960.6/11-12)
• ‘Innominatus: Salvaged frae oor Proodest Galleon’ [Scots version of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Breathes There the Man’], MS (MS 2960.6/4)
• ‘Lament for the Faan’ (1953), TS (MS 2960.6/13)
• ‘Lament for the Kingdom o Scotland’ (1953), TS (MS 2960.6/7-8)
• ‘Ma War-Time Dearie’ (1953), TS (MS 2960.6/13)
• ‘An Ode til New Jerusalem’, TS (MS 2976, unnumbered)
• ‘On a Leddy Poet Wanting ti be Caaed Miss at her Literary Parties’, MS (MS 2960.6/4)
• ‘On a Scottish Poet Who Says the Future’s in English’ (1965), 1 f. (MS 2960/6/55)
• ‘The Paschal Caundyll’ (1954), TS (MS 2960.6/15-27)
• ‘The Settler’s Prayer’, TS (MS 2960.6/10)
• 'To X' (1943?), TS (MS 2983)

MSS of Prose by Tom Scott

• Extract from unpublished study of MacDiarmid’s poetry (1966), TS (MS 2960.6/82-84)
• Unpublished letter to The Scotsman, 11 September 1963 in reply to a letter by W. G. Henderson (MS 2960.6/40)
• Unpublished letter to The Scotsman, 18 May 1973, in reply to a letter by Hamish Henderson (MS 2960/6/126)

Edwin Muir (Coll-445)

• Scott mentioned in letters to Brown from Edwin Muir, 23 July and 22 September 1953, 2 November 1954, 15 August 1955 (Gen 767/7/11-13, 21-22, 26)

Photographs of Scottish Writers (Coll-1070)

• Photograph of Tom Scott by Gordon Wright, 1979 ( (E89/45/5)

Records of Scottish International Review (Coll-232)

• Letter from Scott to Robert Tait, editor of Scottish International Review, 11 October 1967 (Gen 2159/2)

Fred Urquhart (Coll-49)

• Scott mentioned in letter from Norah Montgomerie to Urquhart, 24 April 1961 (MS 2832)
• Mentioned in letter from Maurice Lindsay to Urquhart, 21 May 1976, and in copies of 3 letters from Urquhart to Lindsay, 15 May, 4 June 1976, and 7 November 1981 (MS 2838)