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Manuscripts of Works by Andrew Young

This page lists literary manuscripts by Andrew Young held by Edinburgh University Library.

These consists of poems, broadcast scripts, and autobiographical notes sent to the writer and broadcaster John Arlott by Andrew Young. They are all to be found at shelfmark E93.58 (Folder 1).

Poetry

We have duplicate TSS of the following poems, all sent by Andrew Young to John Arlott for comment.

  • ‘At Amberley Wild Brooks’
  • ‘At Formby’
  • ‘The Bleeding Nun: A Ghost Story’ (with MS annotations)
  • ‘Cornish Flower-Farm’
  • ‘Dundonell Mountains’
  • ‘The Erme’
  • ‘In Avebury Circle’
  • ‘In Breckland’,
  • ‘In Burnham Beeches’
  • ‘On Rockland Broad’
  • ‘On the Common’
  • ‘The Sea’
  • ‘The Shower’
  • ‘A Sussex Ghyll’
  • ‘The Swedes’ (2 TSS)

Radio Scripts

We have scripts for the following broadcasts, written and presented by Andrew Young, and produced by John Arlott for BBC Radio.

  • ‘Birds, Beasts and Flowers, 6. Some Rare Flowers of the West’, broadcast script, BBC West of England Home Service, 12 October 1945
  • ‘Book of Verse, 56. Beaumont and Fletcher’, TS and broadcast script, BBC Eastern Service, 27 October 1945
  • ‘Book of Verse, 90. Robert Burns’, broadcast script with MS annotations, BBC Eastern Service, 29 June 1946
  • ‘Book of Verse, 96. Edward Thomas’, broadcast script, BBC Eastern Service, 10 August 1946
  • ‘The Search for Flowers’, telediphone transcript, BBC Home Service, 1 July 1945
  • 'W. H. Hudson’, broadcast script, BBC Eastern Service, 29 July 1946

Other

  • ‘A. J. Y.’, autobiographical notes, MS (2 ff.)

We also have press cuttings of the poems ‘He Dwelleth in –' (The Observer, 2 June 1940) and ‘Sudden Thaw’ (Kingdom Come, Autumn 1940), both with Young's signature.

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