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Manuscripts Submitted to 'The Jabberwock'

Manuscripts submitted to 'The Jabberwock' include contributions from the following Scottish writers.

The shelfmark for all these items is E2015.15.

Robert Garioch

  • ‘The Hierodules: Frae the Poem by Pindar’, TS of poem
  • ‘Swan-Song (frae the Latin of the Carmina Burana)’, TS of poem (with MS annotations)
  • ‘A Wee Nicht-Music’, TS of poem translated from Giosuè Carducci

Hugh MacDiarmid

  • ‘R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)', TS of essay
  • ‘The Scottish Renaissance: The Next Step’, TS of essay
  • ‘The Significance of Sydney Goodsir Smith’, TS of essay

Compton Mackenzie

  • Message of support for The Jabberwock, TS

Sydney Goodsir Smith

  • ‘The World’s Winter’, TS of poem

Other Writers

The Jabberwock Archive also includes manuscripts by student writers and by established non-Scottish writers such as Vera Blackwell (née Jakešová), Bruce Etherington, Martin Gray, Jonathan Mills, and Alan Riddell.

See Sydney Goodsir Smith Materials for other manuscripts in the Jabberwock Archive connected to Smith's campaign to be elected Rector of Edinburgh University in 1951.

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