Maurice Lindsay Materials in Other EUL Collections

Helen Cruickshank (Coll-81)

• 5 letters from Lindsay, 1966-68 (Gen 1929.17)
• 2 letters from Lindsay, 26 January and 17 February 1970 (Gen 1966/15-16)
• 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)

Hamish Henderson (Coll-1438)

• 3 letters from Lindsay to Henderson, 1 October 1975, 14 November 1985, 1 February 2001 (E2013.07, Box 15, Folder 6)

Norman MacCaig (Coll-69)

• TS of Lindsay's poem 'Barcarolle' included in anthology of Scottish verse edited by MacCaig for Poetry Review (ca. 1965) (Gen 767/28/8-9)
• MS review by MacCaig of Lindsay's This Business of Living (MS 3203/4/28)
• MS review of Modern Scottish Poetry, ed. Maurice Lindsay, and Scottish Poetry 1, ed. George Bruce, Maurice Lindsay and Edwin Morgan (MS 3203/4/64)

Hugh MacDiarmid (Coll-18)

Manuscripts by Lindsay

• TSS of No Crown for Laughter (1943), Hurlygush (1948), 'Nicht Music: A Nine-Pairt Fantasie', and 4 other poems (MS 2997)
• 'To Hugh MacDiarmid', TS poem (MS 2953.2/35-36)
• TS of unpublished anthology Scottish Signposts (1943-44), co-edited by Maurice Lindsay and Fred Urquhart (MS 2983)
• 'Sometimes She Wondered', TS short story by Lindsay in above anthology (MS 2983)
• 'The Enemies of Love' and 'The Paper Frame', TS poems by Lindsay in above anthology (MS 2983)

Letters from Lindsay

• 120 letters and 6 postcards from Lindsay to MacDiarmid, 1943-77 + 1 letter to Valda Grieve (MS 2953.3)

Lindsay is also mentioned in letters to MacDiarmid from: W. R. Aitken (MS 2942.2), Morven Cameron (MS 2954.2), Helen Cruickshank (MS 2946.9), Duncan Glen (MS 2948.9), George Campbell Hay (MS 2951.2), Hamish Henderson (MS 2951.3), Naomi Mitchison (MS 2955.13), Alexander Scott (MS 2960.5), Tom Scott (MS 2960.6), and Douglas Young (MS 2961.18).

Robert Nye (Coll-54)

• 15 letters from Lindsay to Robert Nye, 1971-1976 (MS 2900)

Records of Scottish International Review (Coll-232)

• TS of Lindsay's poem 'A Hare' submitted to Scottish International Review (Gen 2159/2)
• 7 letters from Lindsay to Robert Tait, editor of Scottish International Review, 1967-68 (Gen 2159/3)
• TS of review of Lindsay's This Business of Living (1969) by Brian W. M. Scobie (Gen 2159/3)

Tom Scott (Coll-1077)

• Mentioned in letters to Scott from Hugh MacDiarmid, 29 June 1964, 7 April 1965, 12 July and 1 August 1966 (E2001.34)
• Mentioned in letter to Scott from Robert McLellan, 8 January 1965 (E95.02)
• Mentioned in letter to Scott from Alexander Scott, 7 February and 13 March 1966, 4 August and 21 October 1967, 5 April 1968 (E95.02)

Sydney Goodsir Smith (Coll-497)

• Copy of letter from Smith to Lindsay, 3 April 1947 (E.2005.27)

Fred Urquhart (Coll-49)

Fred Urquhart and Maurice Lindsay co-edited the anthologies Scottish Signposts (1943-1946, unpublished) and No Celtic Twilight (1947). They resumed contact in 1976 when Lindsay invited Urquhart to become fiction reviewer for the Scottish Review.

• Editorial for Scottish Signposts (co-written by Urquhart and Lindsay), MS and TS (MS 2838)
• 3 letters from Lindsay about Scottish Signposts, 1943-44 (MS 2805)
• 15 letters from Lindsay about Scottish Signposts, 1943-46 (MS 2838)
• 54 letters from Lindsay about the Scottish Review, 1976-85 (with copies of 66 letters from Urquhart to Lindsay) (MS 2838)
• Lindsay mentioned in 3 letters from Alexander Reid to Urquhart, 23 February, 12 June 1944, and 30 January 1945 (MS 2833)
• Mentioned in letter from Dorothy K. Haynes to Urquhart, 10 June 1947 (MS 2837)
• Mentioned in copy of letter from Urquhart to David Moody of Blairgowrie Branch Library, 7 November 1976 (MS 2836)
• Mentioned in letter from George Mackay Brown to Urquhart, 27 August 1979 (MS 2832)
• TS review by Urquhart of Lindsay's History of Scottish Literature for Scottish Review, 28 February 1977 (MS 2822)