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Letters on Other Scottish Authors

The Thomas Nelson Papers contain many letters by John Buchan on works by other Scottish writers, published or considered for publication by Nelson.

Authors

J. M. Barrie

  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Barrie’s opinion of cheap edition of Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery, 28 January 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/207)
  • Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Barrie’s plays, 17, 22 March 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/217)

J. J. Bell

  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Bell's Wee Macgregor, 22 December 1913 (Gen 1728/B/4/352)

John Brandane

  • Correspondence with G. Graham on Brandane's My Lady of Aros, 21 February-12 May 1924 (Gen 1728/B/11/323, 365-89)

Robert Burns

  • Letter to G. Graham on Burns's poems, 31 October 1922 (Gen 1728/B/10/215)

George Douglas Brown

  • Letter from G. Graham on Brown's The House with the Green Shutters, 9 December 1920 (Gen 1728/B/9/149)

Thomas Carlyle

  • Correspondence with G. Graham on Carlyle’s Selected Essays, 20-26 May 1927 (Gen 1728/B/13/295-96)

J. Storer Clouston

  • Letters to G. M. Brown on Clouston's The Prodigal Father, 1, 6 April 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/216, 226)

S. R. Crockett

  • Letter to T. A. Nelson about Crockett’s Rogues’ Island, 5 December 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/287)

O. Douglas

  • Letter to G. M. Brown on O. Douglas's Penny Plain, 24 August 1920 (Gen 1728/B/9/105)
  • Correspondence with G. Graham on O. Douglas's Anne and her Mother and Pink Sugar, 4-6 October 1927 (Gen 1728/B/13/334-35)
  • Correspondence with G. Graham on O. Douglas's Olivia and The Proper Place, 18 December 1928-4 January 1929 (Gen 1728/B/14/111-14)
  • Letter from G. Graham on novels by O. Douglas, 25 October 1929 (Gen 1728/B/14/143)
  • Correspondence with G. Graham on O. Douglas's Eliza for Common, 5-18 November 1929 (Gen 1728/B/14/149-50, 154)

*'O. Douglas' was the pen-name of John Buchan's novelist sister Anna Masterton Buchan.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle’s Mystery of Cloomber, 12 January 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/143)
  • Correspondence between Buchan and G. M. Brown on Sherlock Holmes books, May 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/82, 84)
  • Letter to T. A. Nelson on Conan Doyle’s The Great Shadow, 16 March 1911 (Gen 1728/B/3/254)
  • Letter to T. A. Nelson on German translations of Conan Doyle, 10 January 1912 (Gen 1728/B/4/3)
  • Letter to G. M. Brown reporting that Conan Doyle is too busy to write on the war, 14 August 1914 (Gen 1728/B/5/73)
  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Conan Doyle’s ‘History’ (The British Campaign in France and Flanders?), 23 April 1915 (Gen 1728/B/5/347)
  • Letter to Ian Nelson on Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures, 8 July 1925 (Gen 1728/B/12/184)
  • Letter to John Buchan from Ian Nelson relaying Conan Doyle’s praise of John Macnab, 9 July 1925 (Gen 1728/B/12/186)

Jane and Mary Findlater

  • Letter to G. M. Brown on one of their works, 21 October 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/389)

Kenneth Grahame

  • Letter from G. M. Brown on Grahame's Dream Days, 23 October 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/398)

Ian Hay

  • Letter to T. A. Nelson on Hay's The Right Stuff, 6 April 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/33)
  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Hay's The First Hundred Thousand, 18 September 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/197)
  • Letter to Mr Graham on The First Hundred Thousand, 8 February 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/364)
  • Letter from G. M. Brown on Hay's Carrying on, 11 January 1918 (Gen 1728/B/8/8)
  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Carrying on, 28 January 1918 (Gen 1728/B/8/11)

James Hogg

  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Hogg’s short fiction, 9 July 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/334

Andrew Lang

  • Correspondence with G. M. Brown on Lang’s Maid of France, 12-19 July 1909 (Gen 1728/B/1/337-46)
  • Correspondence with G. M. Brown on French translation of Maid of France, 1 February-28 June 1910 (Gen 1728/B/2/22-311)

Compton Mackenzie

  • Letter to G. M. Brown disapproving of 'strong sexual element' in Compton Mackenzie’s books, 25 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/245)
  • Mackenzie discussed in letter to 'Miss A.', 28 October 1916 (Gen 1728/B/6/256)
  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Mackenzie’s Guy and Pauline, 10 February 1917 (Gen 1728/B/7/48)
  • Letter from G. M. Brown on Mackenzie’s Poor Relations, 14 November 1919 (Gen 1728/B/8/242)
  • Letter to G. M. Brown on Mackenzie’s Poor Relations (‘an excellent book for the Continental Library’), 18 November 1919 (Gen 1728/B/8/244)

Walter Scott

  • Correspondence with G. Graham and 'Mr Kerr' on Scott’s Journal, 30 April-7 May 1925 (Gen 1728/B/12/110-21, Gen 1728/B/13/270-82)

Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Correspondence with G. Graham on novels by Stevenson, 22 August 1924-8 July 1927 (Gen 1728/B/11/456, 479, Gen 1728/B/12/32-67, Gen 1728/B/13/287-317)
  • Letter to G. Graham on Nelson edition of Virginibusque Puerisque, 3 December 1924 (Gen 1728/B/11/481)
  • Correspondence with G. Graham on Nelson edition of Valima Letters, 7-25 July 1927 (Gen 1728/B/13/316-25) and 30 March-11 April 1928 (Gen 1728/B/14/25-37)

Further Details

For further information, see Handlist H25.1, which lists all of the Buchan letters in the Papers of Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, and which may be consulted in the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Library.