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archivistische beschrijving
GB 249 GB 249 T-WYL/5/1 · Bestanddeel · 1967-1999
Part of George Wyllie papers

Religious, [1967-1969], 1972, June 1976, September 1982, January/February 1993, April 1999, 101 colour transparencies; War memorial, St John’s, Oban, July 1986, 13 colour transparencies.

Paper Boat
GB 249 GB 249 T-WYL/7/8/1 · Deelreeks · 1989-1990
Part of George Wyllie papers

Design notes, drawings, funding bid, invoices, correspondence, press releases and cuttings, Clydeport maps and documents, tide tables, photographs, fabric samples, arrangements for launch by Lady Naomi Mitchison on 6 May 1989, Paper Boat letterheaded paper.

File 1. Funding bid etc., 1989.
File 2. Fabric samples, Clydeport documents, 1989.
File 3. Drawings etc., 1989.
File 4. Launch, tide tables, leaflet on Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, 1989.
File 5. Liverpool, including wallet of 21 colour photographs 110 mm (h) x 150 mm (w), & 8 more annotated colour photographs, 1989.
File 6. London, 1989.
File 7. New York, including invoices, street maps, tourist leaflets and 3 colour photographs of New York, 250mm (h) x 200 mm (w), 1990.
File 8. Antwerp, 1990.
File 9. Worldwide, including sketch entitled ‘Worldwide cruising’, press cutting about the liner, Queen Mary on the river Clyde, and miscellaneous notes, including Glasgow launch of the Paper Boat.

'M[iscellaneous] mementos'
GB 249 GB 249 T-WYL/8/1 · Bestanddeel · 1937-2002
Part of George Wyllie papers

Correspondence and documents, books, press cuttings and articles, brochures.

Contents include: Correspondence with Elspeth King, Director, Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, February-April 1997 re purchase of ‘Breaking the Habit’, with uncashed cheque; HMS Argonaut reunion press cutting; Title page of ‘Improvising and arranging for the modern accordianist’ by J H Sedlon, Book 2. London: Scarth, [19 ] (Photocopy); George Wyllie’s Commission in HM Customs and Excise, 28 April 1948 (photocopy); Children’s book in Greek, 1981; ‘New ukelele method’, by J Mace Wolff. Chicago: Cole, [19 ], with letter from Lorna ..., Dunoon, undated; Paper aeroplane; Faxed copy of ‘Harlem Nocturne’, 1994; Marine insurance policy: cargo and freight, Phoenix, Greek General Insurance Co. SA, Athens, 13 September 1975; Blank application form for Official Travel Document of World Government, issued by World Service Authority, Basle, Switzerland, undated, 2 pp; Advert for Hare Krishna Festival at Bellshill Community Centre, 25 April 1993; Concert programme, unknown place and date (photocopy); Certificate: George Wyllie sworn in as Deputy Sheriff of Calton Creek, signed by Lobey Dosser [cartoon character in Glasgow newspaper], undated; Greek language newspaper, 1981; Letter from St Albans Organ Museum re recordings, 31 October 1977, 2 pp; Holyrood postcards etc, c 1979; Advertisement for Paris International Boat Show, 3-13 December 1993; Instructions to build ‘Simpleton Too’, a 7 ft prawn dinghy, reproduced from ‘Yachts and yachting’ (poor condition); Press cutting on Roedean School sports; Preliminary interior scheme for living/ dining, MS notes and sketches for Wyllie’s home in Gourock, 3 pp; Flying aces [short story], July 1937; Take the children, by Dorothy N King. New York: Morrow, 1945, 26 pp [children’s picture book]; Brochure on Royston Road parks, Royston Road Project, 2002, 79 pp, with letter from Ruth Gillett, Glasgow.

'W[riting]: other poems'
GB 249 GB 249 T-WYL/9/1 · Bestanddeel · 1955-2003
Part of George Wyllie papers

Typescripts, book review, articles, poetry postcards, press cuttings, poems in Scots and English, a few by George Wyllie but mostly by other writers.

Contents include: 'Come in ahint', by W D Cocker; 'Boy in the Train', by Mary Campbell Smith; 'Smokey Mountain', by Norman Bissett; 'String theory', by Tessa Ransford; 'Revocation', by DARF, 1955; 'Royston', by George Wyllie; 'The drunken boat'; 'Kaspar is dead'; 'Sketch of ‘Crystal Ship’' by George Wyllie; 'Open the Doors', by Edwin Morgan; 'Tyger, Tyger... Eleanor’s poem'; 'The Star o’ Rabbie Burns'; 'Ulysses'; 'Miss Kilmansegg and her precious Leg'; Letter and poems from Kendric Ross, 1999; Poems by Margaret Tait; 'A wee Multitude of Questions for George Wyllie', 1996 [by Liz Lochhead]; Homage to George Rickey sculpture at Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, by Jerry Peyton, c 1989; 'Flower of the Stone', by George Mackay Brown, endorsed ‘Montpellier 1996’, with letter on verso from Kenny [Munro], April 2001; 'Over my rainbow: rhymes and pictures', by Alice Berry, 2001, booklet, 36 pp, with manuscript notes; 'Freedom come-all-ye', by Hamish Henderson; 'The Bones of Columba'; 'Nuspeak 8', by Edwin Morgan; Poster poem by Adrian Henri, Tate Gallery Liverpool, May 1991; Poems by Robert Garioch, with letter to George Wyllie from K Roberts, Foulis Easter, 1992; 'Light', by Hayden Murphy, 1991-1992; 'A Day we won’t forget', by Rachel Linn [on Dunblane massacre]; 'Shared roses': poster poem by Hayden Murphy, 1991, inscribed ‘For George and Daphne’; 'Tones of Destiny, in memory of Sorley Maclean': programme and note, 28 November 1996; Kenny Munro 1st Academy exhibition of the Open Air, Caltonhill [Edinburgh], August 1996; 'White Stone of Lewis', by Tessa Ransford; 'Where go the Boats?' by Robert Louis Stevenson; Poems and correspondence from Ian Stephen, referring to McGillivray Walk, with 2 colour photographs; 'Apparitions from a Train', by Neil Jones, with letter from George Wyllie to Neil Jones, September 1981; Stirling Gallery Christmas cards and poems; 'See ma maw and oor hoose', and 'Big Wullie', by Donald Harley; 'Vermeer' by Tessa Ransford, August 1984; 'Downstream [for George Wyllie]', by Shona Morrison?; Scottish Poetry Library fact sheet; 'One day I spilled my dole of rice', by Nguyen Chi Thien (Vietnam); 'A poem for George Wyllie' from Robert McDowell, 1994; 'The Phoenix', by George Wyllie, 1997 [on Royston steeple]; 'Angel of Morningside', by Norman Bissett; Poetry postcards and press cuttings; 'In my bones', by Tessa Ransford, 2003; 'Years', by Hayden Murphy; MS poem ‘A salmon speaks to all Glasgow’; 'Thoughts on Norfolk', by Alice Berry, 1999; 'To a mouse', by Robert Burns; 'For W S Graham', by George Mackay Brown; 'Music of tune ‘Vem kan segla’', with covering letter, writer unknown; 'Flask of dreams', by Alan Boyce, 1999; 'The little white rose, by Hugh MacDiarmid', 1992; 'Sense data: new science poems', by John Burnside and others; 'Wonderment of wonder', translated from Rilke’s original by Tessa Ransford.

Demarco projects
GB 249 GB 249 T-WYL/7/1 · Bestanddeel · 1969-2000
Part of George Wyllie papers

Correspondence, exhibition catalogues, press releases and documents; also sketch of Scotland, possibly by Richard Demarco.