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Maurice Lindsay Correspondence

This page offers a guide to highlights of the correspondence in Edinburgh University Library's Maurice Lindsay Papers (Coll-56).

Further correspondence is listed in Maurice Lindsay Materials in Other EUL Collections, including letters from Lindsay to Helen Cruickshank, Hugh MacDiarmid, Fred Urquhart, and to the editor of Scottish International Review.

Correspondence with Scottish Writers

The Lindsay Papers contain letters from the following significant Scottish writers. For a full list of Lindsay's correspondents, see Handlists to Manuscripts at the foot of the page.

Marion Angus

  • Copy of autobiographical letter from Marion Angus to William Jeffrey, Autumn 1944 (Gen 2030/30/414)

D. M. Black

  • Letter from Black, 22 May 1967 (Gen 2030/30/15)

Alan Bold

  • 2 cards from Bold, 26 April 1968 and undated (Gen 2030/30/16-17)

Edward Boyd

  • Letter from Boyd, 23 February 1950 (Gen 2030/30/18)

James Bridie

  • Letter from Bridie, 10 January 1951 (Gen 2030/31/69)

George Mackay Brown

  • 4 letters from Mackay Brown, 1967-74 (Gen 2030/30/19-22)

George Bruce

  • 78 letters and one card from Bruce, 1945-76 (Gen 2030/30/25-101)
  • Letter from Bruce, 13 June 1949 (Gen 2030/24b)
  • 3 letters from Bruce, 1952-54 (Gen 2030/27)
  • Letter from Bruce, 5 November 1952 (Gen 2030/28)

Helen Cruickshank

  • 12 letters (1948-67) and 1 undated postcard from Cruickshank (Gen 2030/30/120)

There are attached materials relating to Lindsay's and Cruickshank's edition of the Selected Poems of Marion Angus (1950).

Adam Drinan (Joseph Macleod)

  • 5 letters from Drinan (17 July 1950 and 4 undated) (Gen 2030/31/37-41)

George Sutherland Fraser

  • 3 letters from Fraser, 1946-70 (Gen 2030/30/151-153)

Robin Fulton

  • Letter from Fulton, 13 March 1973 (Gen 2030/30/154)

Edward Gaitens

  • Letter from Gaitens, 6 November 1947 (Gen 2030/30/155)

Robert Garioch

  • Letter from Garioch, 10 November 1947 (Gen 2030/31/230)

Duncan Glen

  • Letter from Glen, 26 September 1974 (Gen 2030/30/189)

W. S. (William Sydney) Graham

  • 2 Letters from Graham, 8 November 1945 (Gen 2030/31/177) and 27 March 1975 (Gen 2030/31/190)

Sir Alexander Gray

  • 16 letters and 1 card, 1945-62 (Gen 2030/30/215-232)

Neil M. Gunn

  • 17 letters and 2 Christmas cards, 1944-70 (Gen 2030/30/296-318)

George Campbell Hay

  • 2 letters from Hay, 1947 (Gen 2030/30/327-327*)

Hamish Henderson

  • Letter from Henderson, 7 September 1947 (with MS poem 'Highland Jebel') (Gen 2030/30/328-328*)

Robert Kemp

  • 18 letters from Kemp, 1947-51 (Gen 2030/30/349-366)

Eric Linklater

  • 5 letters from Linklater, 1947-62 (Gen 2030/380-384)

Norman MacCaig

  • 11 letters from MacCaig, 1948-76 (Gen 2030/31/1-11)

Guy McCrone

  • 3 letters, 1947-50

Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve)

  • 53 letters, 1944-75 (with copy of letter from Lindsay dated 25 March 1949) (Gen 2030/30/234-288)

Agnes Mure Mackenzie

  • Letter from Mackenzie, 8 February 1950 (Gen 2030/31/16)

A. D. Mackie

  • 2 letters from Mackie, 1947-48 (MS 2030/31/17-18)

Moray McLaren

  • Letter from McLaren, 9 May 1950 (Gen 2030/31/19)

Alasdair Maclean

  • 2 letters from Maclean, 1970-73

Sorley Maclean

  • Letter from Maclean, 9 November 1970 (Gen 2030/31/21*)

Robert McLellan

  • 4 letters from McLellan, 1946-47 (Gen 2030/31/22-25)

William Montgomerie

  • Letter from Montgomerie, 11 August 1971 (Gen 2020/31/70)

Edwin Morgan

  • 8 letters, 1 card, and 7 poetical Christmas cards from Edwin Morgan, 1949-73 (Gen 2031/31/71-86)

Edwin Muir

  • 2 letters, 1945-48 (Gen 2030/31/87-88)

Christine Orr

  • Letter from Orr, 12 October 1948 (Gen 2030/31/115)

Alastair Reid

  • Two letters from Reid, 1949-50 (Gen 2030/31/122-123)

R. Crombie Saunders

  • Letter from Saunders, 2 July 1947 (Gen 2030/31/143)

Alexander Scott

  • 16 letters from Scott, 1947-72 (Gen 2030/31/145-160)

Iain Crichton Smith

  • 8 letters and 1 Christmas card from Smith, 1972-74 and undated (Gen 2030/31/167-175)

Sydney Goodsir Smith

  • 21 letters from Smith, 1945-75 (Gen 2030/31/198)

Derick S. Thomson (Ruaraidh MacThomais)

  • Letter from Thomson, 11 February 1976 (Gen 2030/31/232)

Ruthven Todd

  • Letter from Todd, 21 July 1947 (Gen 2030/31/233)

Nigel Tranter

  • Letter from Tranter, 17 July 1968 (Gen 2030/31/234)

Sydney Tremayne

  • 3 letters from Tremayne, 1948-67 (Gen 2030/31/241-243)

William Price Turner

  • Letter from Turner, 21 May 1967

Fred Urquhart

  • 7 letters from Urquhart, 1948-1976 (Gen 2030/31/251)

Douglas Young

  • 27 letters, 1 card, and 4 Christmas cards, 1944-1965 (Gen 2030/31/313)

Other Correspondence

Lindsay also corresponded with other major British and world writers, including Kingsley Amis (Gen 2030/30/2), Austin Clarke (Gen 2030/105), T. S. Eliot (Gen 2030/141), Ian Fleming (Gen 2030/149), E.M. Forster (Gen 2030/150), C. Day Lewis (Gen 2030/30/376-379), Robert Nye (Gen 2030/30/393, Gen 2030/31/98-113), Siegfried Sassoon (Gen 2030/31/142), George Bernard Shaw (Gen 2030/31/166), Stephen Spender (Gen 2030/31/201-210), and R. S. Thomas (Gen 2030/31/231).

There are also letters from major figures in the Scottish musical world such as Thea Musgrave (Gen 2030/31/89-94*) and Francis George Scott (Gen 2030/31/161-165).

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