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Cruickshank Materials on Other Scottish Authors

The Helen Cruickshank Papers (Coll-81) contain critical, biographical, creative, and visual materials on a number of major 20th-century Scottish authors.

Authors

Marion Angus

  • 'Marion Angus: A Personal Note' (1948), MS (Gen 1929/55) and TS (Gen 2122/6/1-10)
  • 'Four Contemporary Scots Poets: Lewis Spence, Marion Angus, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar' (1939), TS lecture to Colinton Literary Society (Gen 1929/4)

Catherine Carswell

  • Signed photograph of Carswell (Gen 1966/43)
  • Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to Cruickshank on Carswell's death, [February 1946] (Gen 886/92-98)

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  • 'A Fellow-Countrywoman's View of Lewis Grassic Gibbon', TS essay (Gen 1929/12*/53 and Gen 1966/52)
  • 'Spring in the Mearns (for Lewis Grassic Gibbon)' (1935), MS poem (Gen 2188/1) and TSS (Gen 1929/12*/31**)
  • Notes on Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Gen 1929/12*/31)
  • Portraits of Gibbon by Colin Gibson and Laurence Graham and photographs of his daughter Rhea Mitchell (Gen 1929/12)

*Lewis Grassic Gibbon is also mentioned in letters from his widow Ray Mitchell (Gen 1966/19-24), Nan Shepherd (Gen 1966/27), William Soutar (Gen 1929/11), Neil McCallum (Gen 1929/12*/31) and Geoffrey Wagner (Gen 1929/12*/32-35).

Neil M. Gunn

  • Mentioned in letter from Peggy Grieve, [1930?] (Gen. 886/5)

Maurice Lindsay

  • Transcript of BBC radio review by Lindsay of Cruickshank’s Sea Buckthorn (1954) (Gen 1929/51)
  • MS of 'Verses for a Yes-but-ter', verse response by Cruickshank to above review (Gen 1966/61/1)

Fionn MacColla

  • 2 photographs by Cruickshank of Fionn MacColla with Hugh MacDiarmid, Edinburgh, ca. 1938 (Gen 886/176 and Gen 886/179)

Hugh MacDiarmid

  • 'Epistle for Christopher Murray Grieve on his 75th Birthday', MS and TSS of poem, with notes (Gen 1929/20/6-7*)
  • 'Four Contemporary Scots Poets: Lewis Spence, Marion Angus, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar' (1939), TS lecture to Colinton Literary Society (Gen 1929/4)
  • 'Personal Notes on Hugh MacDiarmid', MS (Gen 1966/54)
  • Letter from William Soutar to Cruickshank, 9 September 1935, about MacDiarmid’s stay in hospital in Perth (Gen. 886/35)
  • Letter from Francis G. Scott to Cruickshank, 19 December 1937, about MacDiarmid's financial difficulties (Gen. 886/23)
  • 21 photographs by Cruickshank of Hugh MacDiarmid and family (Gen 886/159-180)
  • Graphological assessment of Hugh MacDiarmid by Marty Stewart (Gen 1929/23)

F. Marian McNeill

  • 'In Memoriam: Florence Marian McNeill' (1973), MSS of poem (Gen 1966/58)

Edwin and Willa Muir

  • Mentioned in letter from Peggy Grieve to Cruickshank, [1930?] (Gen. 886/5)
  • Mentioned in letter from Valda Grieve to Cruickshank, [1938?] (Gen 886/36 and 42-43)
  • Mentioned in letters from Hugh MacDiarmid to Cruickshank, [1938?] (Gen 886/79-80)

Alexander Scott

  • 'Makars Meet: To Helen Cruickshank', TS poem (Gen 1966/59)

Nan Shepherd

  • Photograph of Shepherd by Andrew Paterson, Inverness, with biographical note by Cruickshank (Gen 1966/36)

William Soutar

  • 'Four Contemporary Scots Poets: Lewis Spence, Marion Angus, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar' (1939), TS lecture to Colinton Literary Society (Gen 1929/4)
  • Mentioned in letter from Valda Grieve to Cruickshank, 28 August 1935 (Gen 886/18)

Lewis Spence

  • 'Four Contemporary Scots Poets: Lewis Spence, Marion Angus, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar' (1939), TS lecture to Colinton Literary Society (Gen 1929/4)

Further Details

For further information, see the Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue and the manual Index to Manuscripts held in the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Library.