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Quotations, speeches, press cuttings and published articles, a few by George Wyllie, mostly by others. 1983-2001, with photocopied extracts from earlier works.

Contents: 'International Institute of Geopoetics': inaugural text by Kenneth White, 1989, 2 pp; NSEAD [National Society for Education in Art and Design] Annual course and conference, ‘Art and design and regeneration’, 1990: 'What can we do?' Workshop by George Wyllie: programme; Scottish Council Foundation, Creativity think tank, 2001: programme and invitation; 'What can we do?', 1991; 'Facing the future: a new agenda for the arts?' by Ian Christie, Demos, 1991; Arts Council of England brochure, c 1998; Yaddo Project, New York, USA, undated booklet and press cutting from 'Saturday Herald', undated; 'Celebrating Scotland: a national cultural strategy', Scottish Executive, 1999, booklet, 16 pp; Talk by George Wyllie at Arts and Communities Forum, Dundee Arts Centre, 1995, 3 pp; 'Avantgarde and social awareness: the example of Joseph Beuys', by Franz-Joachim Verspohl, source and date unknown, pp 23-37 (photocopy); Hand Hollow Foundation, New York, USA: information for residents, 1983, 3 pp; 'The artist and his time, from ‘The myth of Sisyphus’' by Albert Camus, first published in 1953 (photocopy); 'People: structure: engineering: standing on the shoulders of giants', by Chris Wise, Structural engineer, vol 78:1, 4 January 2000, pp 24-28 (offprint).

Manuscript and typed documents, project proposals, notes and sketches, mostly by George Wyllie, correspondence, photographs.

Contents: 'Synenergezetics simply explained', manuscript and typed notes and drawings, undated; 'The Spire: air, equilibrium, stone', undated; 'The Spire', 1995, and leaflet on Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, undated; 'The Spire', 1994 and 1988; 'Explaining Scul?ture and the synergetic cycle ... etc? Also More explaining', manuscript notes, November 1993 [for exhibition at Lillie Gallery, Milngavie?]; 'The Lumsden Spire', undated; 'Synenergezetics', December 1994; Definition of ‘Synenergezetics’ by George Wyllie, May 1995; 'The Spire: equilibrium', 1996; Livingston Town Square sculpture, 1995; 'Mystery Spire': manuscript proposal, undated; 'The Oldham Spire': proposal, June 1992, 3 pp; University of Strathclyde sculpture commission competition, June 1993: leaflet on shortlisted works, correspondence, sketches and proposal for George Wyllie’s Strathclyde Spire, with 2 colour photographs 180 mm x 125 mm; 'Multi-spire: Scottish Sculpture Open', 3, 1985: proposal with sketches, 1985, 2 pp; 'Sculpture for Peterhead Power Station': proposal, manuscript notes and sketch, July 1983; Flexy sculpture, World Headquarters, General Accident Insurance Co, Perth: notes and sketch c 1982 and description [press release?], 1983; 'The Broomielaw Spire: the sculptor’s aspirations': proposal, February 1992; 'A Spire for Ben Lomond Memorial Park': proposal, August 1996; 'Cradle': proposal, undated; 'Extending Tatlin': manuscript notes and sketches, 1995; 'Synergic art manifesto', by Murdo Macdonald and George Wyllie, April 1992, 3 pp, also version in German language, 2 pp.

Manuscript and typescript posters and documents by George Wyllie.

Contents: 'On civil disobedience', January 1999; 'Robinson Crusoe nearly slept here', manuscript exhibition poster, undated, 2 copies; 'Scul?ture', manuscript exhibition poster, 1981 and typed note: ‘Where Scul?ture has been, 1966-1981’; 'The Serpentine gushers', manuscript exhibition poster, 1981, 4 versions; You are invited to spend ‘A Day down a Goldmine’, manuscript poster, undated, 6 versions; 'A short history of action painting', manuscript document, 1981; 'The difference: tree, stone, glass and photographs', printed extract from ‘The eye of the storm: Scottish artists and the nuclear arms debate’, 1986; 'A Day down a Goldmine' sketch mounted on gold card, undated, with manuscript title ‘A Day down a Goldmine’ on white card; 'Destiny', manuscript title, undated.

Manuscript and typed documents, mostly by George Wyllie.

Contents: 'The Personal Manifesto', 1980, manuscript, 6 pp and typed version, 2pp; 'Manifesto', 1988, typed document, 2 pp; 'Personal Manifesto', 1991, typed document, 2 pp; 'Faultfinder', undated manuscript, 2 pp; Joseph Beuys: ‘Das Kapital’: an appeal for an alternative, undated printed copy, 7 pp (2 copies); 'Das Capital (or all that’s gold may not glitter either)', by George Wyllie, undated manuscript and typed documents; 'What can we do?' Prospectus for a lecture, [1990]; 'The Spire', 1988 and 1994; 'Synenergezetics', 1994; 'Real, not real', undated.

Catalogue introductions by George Wyllie. Manuscript and typed documents.

Contents include: 'Directions in scul?ture', 1983, manuscript notes, 6 pp; Interlude, with manuscript notes for exhibition; 'Scul?ture': St Andrews Festival, 1983; 'Scul?ture', for London exhibition, April 1979; 'Scul?ture': Collins Exhibition Hall [University of Strathclyde], January 1981; Introduction for unknown exhibition; Blake’s Bike, [19 ]; 'All my own work: a nearly missed review', 'Stirling Gallery news', no 4, June-August 1982 (offprint); 'Scul?ture': exhibition in Hendersons Gallery, Edinburgh, 1978, with catalogue, 4 pp.

Discussion papers, correspondence, post cards, typescript articles by other writers, journal issues, 1976-1999, with photocopies of a few earlier items.

Folder 1 Contents: Letter from Renny Nisbet, Edinburgh to George Wyllie, enclosing post cards of Nisbet’s sculpture ‘Red shift’, 1996; 'The economy of the arts: the big picture': speech by Michael D Higgins, Republic of Ireland, undated, 9 pp; 'Conclusion: towards a new aesthetic', from ‘Art, action and participation’, 1976, pp 278-281; 'Dreaming the truth': a discussion paper on the arts, Church of Scotland Church and Nation Committee, 10 pp, with letter from Church to George Wyllie, 2 September 1994, seeking views on art and faith; 'Restructuring art: are aesthetics and social responsibility compatible?' by Suzi Gablik, photocopy from unknown source, c 1991, 3 pp; 'Art for the 21st century: Joseph Beuys and the extended conception of art', by Shelley Sacks, faxed copy, 1994, 12 pp (poor quality); 'Cultural confidence' [on establishment of Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow], by Gemma Tipton, ‘Circa’ Irish arts magazine, July 1996, 3 pp; 'A Festival overture', by George Steiner, Edinburgh Festival 1996, 15 pp; 'Informing ourselves to death', by Neil Postman, 1992, 6 pp; 'The story of the last book of the rich alphabetical hours of the Chopins': exhibition notes by Henri Chopin, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 2-23 June 1984, 3 pp; Bill Moyers’ journal: transcript of ‘Mind at large: Adler on Aristotle’, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 19 March 1979, 23 pp; '20th century art: a perspective out of the 1994 Edinburgh Festival', by Marion Briggs, source unknown, pp 8-9; Extract from ‘Connective aesthetics: art after individualism, by Suzi Gablik, [1992?], pp 74-87; 'Maharajah for a day', by P Boardman, from ‘Patrick Geddes in India’, edited by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, 1947, pp 2-5, 96-103, with correspondence from William Soutar Fellowship, Perth, 10 March 1996 concerning Geddes in Perth day; 'Maharajah for a day', with covering letter from Kenny Munro, 10 December 1996; Extracts from ‘Every man his own art critic', by Patrick Geddes, 1887, pp 6-9, 24-25, and from ‘Dramatisations of history', by Patrick Geddes, 1923, pp 158-163; 'Sketch of Professor Geddes', University College, Dundee, from ‘The wizard of the north, 28 May 1896, with note on Patrick Geddes, by Duncan Macmillan, 'Saltire Society' newsletter, undated; Extract from ‘The interpreter: Geddes’, by Amelia Defries, 1927, pp 192-195; 'Patrick Geddes in context: glossing Lewis Mumford in the light of John Hewitt': paper presented to John Hewitt International Summer School, County Antrim, by Murdo Macdonald, 28 July 1994, 19 pp; 'Patrick Geddes and Perth': expanded from paper presented at Geddes in Perth Day, by Murdo Macdonald on 13 April 1996, 19 pp; Publishing details of ‘Blake: an illustrated quarterly’, vol 27:3, Winter 1993/94.

Folder 2 Contents: Correspondence, programme and menu for dinner and dance, Incorporation of Coopers of Glasgow, Trades Hall, Glasgow, 5 March 1999, with ‘Trades Hall: a guide’, by RWKC Rogerson and W Leggat Smith, undated, 16 pp, and ‘The Trades House of Glasgow: past, present and future’, 'Trades House of Glasgow, 1989', 30 pp; 'The interest is killing us', by Roger Schmitz, reprinted from 'Monetary reform' magazine, February/March 1994, 5 pp; 'Songs of the stones' European Community of Stones project, 1992, 7 pp; 'The Cretan labyrinth: archetypal landscape design symbol', by Emilie Humphreys, Radcliffe seminars, 1 May 1991, 17 pp; 'The idiosyncratic focus of conflicts', by John Kaska, Demarco Archives 1966-1997 exhibition, 3 pp; 'Leonardo-Beuys: the notebook as experimental field', by Martin Kemp, undated, 12 pp; 'Remarks on the development of the early sculptures leading to the most recent sculptures (1983)' by Royden Rabinowitch, Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, 1983, 18 pp booklet; 'Artiscience, artiscient', 4 October 1996, 2 pp; 'Art, the social construction of the self and the Classical tradition in Scotland', by Murdo Macdonald, from Common sense, 12, 1990s, pp 82-92: Extract on work of Latham, source and date unknown, p 165; Details of book on structures, by J E Gordon, with letter from Les ... Paisley College, 4 March 1992 to Ricky [Demarco?]; 'International surrealist bulletin no 4', September 1936, 20 pp [featuring International Surrealist Exhibition, London, 11 June-4 July 1936; text in English and French]; 'The problem of increasing human energy', 'Century' illustrated monthly magazine, June 1900, pp A-109-A-151; 'The ill-clad city: Glasgow turns its back on public art', by David Harding,' Journal of Art and Design Education', vol 16:1, 1997, pp 35-45 [features George Wyllie’s Safety pin].

Manuscript and typescript documents by George Wyllie, many undated, and press cuttings.

Folder 1 contents: '50,000 gallons of fuel to convey an orange', undated manuscript, 4 pp; Review of Broodthaers exhibition at Edinburgh Festival 1977, 2 pp; 'Towards the great terminus', 1970; manuscript on computers, undated, 2 pp; Tim Stead obituary, June 2002; 'The difference [on Hiroshima]', 1986; 'Grasping a thistle: Scotland and the visual arts', October 1991, 4 pp, also photocopy from ‘Gairfish: the McAvantgarde’, 1992, pp 146-150; ‘Greenock revisited’ [on Malcolm McCoig], March 2000, review for 'Greenock Telegraph'; Letter of support for Willie Fulton concerning ‘Under one sky’ project, November 1999, with project proposal by Willie Fulton; Gordon Munro: text for exhibition catalogue, September 1999, with printed copy; 'On civil disobedience', January 1999; Sketch and manuscript Customs declaration, undated; 'Impossible beginnings': contribution by George Wyllie to ‘A Scottish childhood’, July 1997, with correspondence from N Bailey, Killearn, August 1997; 'Real, not real, undated'; Greetings: Bosun’s Pipe exhibition, Portsmouth, July 1996; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow on Inverclyde development, November 1997; 'Equilibrium – an’ a’ that', undated; 'My experience of making art beyond the gallery...' February 1997, 2 pp; 'i on the truth of stone', January 1995; 'For the burds', undated, 2 pp; 'Notes on eagles', undated; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow, on the People’s Palace and George Wyllie’s All-British Slap and Tickle Machine, February 1997, with press cuttings; 'Experiments under nostalgia’s umbrella': review of performance at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 21-22 October 1987; ‘X’ marks the spot for Demarco [on conference at DECI], undated, 3 pp; Speech to Arts and Communities Forum, Dundee, December 1995; 'Scul?ture at sea', August 1987; Press release – ‘Arrivals and sailings... the Funnels are coming', April 1988; On RGI, with sketches of fish, 1986, 4 pp; 'How Italy really won the war', 1980s; 'The Yanks are coming [on the Parade of the Missing Tourists]', 1986; George Wyllie’s ‘Corrupting the young’, undated, 6 pp; 'On Cyril Gerber', undated; 'A very good question, James', typescript, 4 pp, with printed copy from Edinburgh review, 88, pp 58-62; Letter to the Editor, 'Greenock Telegraph' on Gourock Ropeworks, August 1992 – press cutting; 'The SSA', 1989; 'A Faultfinder' [sketch], 1982; 'Consulting the parrot', undated, 2 pp; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow on devolution, November 1995; 'The impossibility of empire', June 1992, 3 pp; 'Here we go again', January 1988; 'The day we went to Documenta in Kassel', June 1978; 'Kissing time in Eastern Europe', undated, 6 pp; '1996 and all that', 2 pp; 'Reason, emotion and cheap tin trays', December 1987; 'Dear Tim, dear Angus [on new Scottish Gallery]', undated, 3 pp, sent to 'Scotsman' newspaper; 'The Edinburgh International', undated; 'Govan is a village', September 1992, 2 pp, and another version, 'Govan is still a fishing village', undated, 2 pp; 'Elusion and illusion' [c 1991], 3 pp; 'The Original Earth Guarantee', printed and manuscript copies, undated; Sketch for layout of a booklet, undated; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow, on Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, November 1989; 'A book that changed me', 1990, 2 pp; The SSA: presidential address, 1987; 'Balanced precariously' [on SSA exhibition], undated; 'Adam and Eve': manuscript with sketches, undated, 6 pp; 'Hawk caught in telegraph wires', with sketch, undated; 'Thoughts for days', undated, 3 pp; 'On social sculpture', October 1987; 'On the existence of non-existences?' undated manuscript, 3 pp; 'America', undated manuscript, 7 pp; 'On the people of the world', undated manuscript; 'On Richard Demarco Gallery', undated; 'On Richard Demarco', undated; Spoof letter to Barbara and Murray [Grigor], Inverkeithing, Fife, 18 December 1986; On the influences of Joseph Beuys and Jean Arp on his work, November 1986; 'Vigorous vespers, Amsterdam', undated; On Glasgow Green, undated manuscript; A book about ferries, undated manuscript notes; ‘Ladderback’ and ‘Miss Cranston slept here’, manuscript notes with sketches, 1982; 'Applaudiemaschine für Gemälde' [Applause machine for artists], undated notes in German; On the nature of art, undated; Edinburgh-Sarajevo, 1988 and 1994, February 1994; 'Strategy-get-arts archive', manuscript notes, July 1994; Draft for launching at ‘PB’ [Paper Boat] lecture, undated; Speech on R Demarco, undated manuscript, 2 pp.

Folder 2 contents: The Stones of Scotland project, January 2003; 'Divine Rhythm', August 2000 [crossed out]; 'Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re Nantes', April 1998; ‘Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, even’, [19 ]; 'The Fall', November 2001; Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re Kilmartin House, Argyll, May 2001; The Walker Hunt Memorial [inventor of the safety pin], [19 ]; 'Skylight', [19 ]; Letter to Editor of 'The Herald' on redevelopment of Gourock, 18 November 1997. 2 pp; Resurgam, June 1999; PITA-People, [19 ]; 'Synenergezetics: a bridge to being?', November 1996. 2 pp; 'Hiroshima', 1986; 'i on the Truth of Stone' [on Calanais], January 1995; ‘Fade in Bloody Death to Beauty’: manuscript poem, [19 ]; 'The Spire', November 1996. 3 pp; 'The Tweed Bike', July 2001; 'A very good Question, James.' Edinburgh Review, 88, pp 58-62 (photocopy); 'New Beginnings?', June 2002; Testimonials for Chris Carrell and Eric Wishart, July 1998; ‘I once went down to the sea again’, [19 ]; Testimonial for Karen Radford, [19 ], 3 versions; ‘A Tentative Stone for Scotland’, December 2000, several versions; letter to Editor of ‘Artwork’, [19 ]; 'A Fearful Symmetry', October 1994; ‘Skylight’, [19 ]; Obituaries for Tim Stead, July and September 2002; Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re New Delhi, April 1998; Testimonial for Dennis Connors, December 2000; 'The difference of Hiroshima', [19 ]; 'Air and Stone', 1999; ‘Seven Vital Sparks’, September 1999 and July 2001, each 2 pp; 'Why Sculpture... and why the Sculpture Trust?' [19 ]; 'Resurgam Revisited', February 2002; Letter to the Editor of 'The Herald', July 2001, on global monetary system; 'The Clackmannan Sea Chest', August 2001; 'Accommodating passion', c 2000; ‘There’s nothing more certain than uncertainty' – fragment, 1999; ‘Wrap the pianos in felt’... – fragment, [19 ]; The ‘Wee Hauf’, May 2000, 2 pp; 'What else could a Viking do?' [poem], [19 ]; 'The crystal air of Inverclyde', March 1999, 2 pp; ‘Divine Rhythm’, August 2000, with note from Dawson Murray; 'A First-foot for the Capital', December 2000 [on Stones of Scotland]; 'An analysis of mediocrity', July 2000, 4 pp; 'The Whinhill Witness', [1998]; 'A Stone is a Stone'... [manuscript document], [19 ], 2 pp; 'The Safety Pin Song' [poem], [19 ]; 'Margot Sandeman', August 2000, with exhibition catalogue; Quartz – fragment, [19 ]; 'Alternative comedy', [19 ]; 'The Cosmic Voyage', May 2005, 4 pp.

Typescripts, manuscript and printed extracts by George Wyllie and other writers.

Contents include: 'Poems and songs to lift the heart', printed from internet, January 2003, 4 pp; 'Abort abort', undated; Letter from ... Thurso, 5 October 2001 to George Wyllie, 2 pp, mentioning Atlantic Vent; Poems by Rabindranath Tagore; Introduction to ‘The World Song’, by George Wyllie? undated, 10 pp manuscript and typescript; Poems for the Stones of Scotland project, 2000; 'The beginning of a new song', by Iain Crichton Smith; 'Miklagard', by Colin Mackay, unknown source and date, pp 66-70; 'America’s poet, Walt Whitman, by Joel L Swerdlow', offprint from 'National Geographic', with poem by Robert Frost, ‘The gift outright’; 'For George Ralston Wyllie', by Kenny Munro, August 2000, with 'For Graham Mitchell Ross', by George Wyllie, and information on ‘The Dedication Books’ from Alec Finlay, 'Morning Star', Edinburgh, undated; 'Happy Compass', poem and illustration for 'An Leabhar Mor' [The Great Book of Gaelic], 2002, with project details; 'Ode to the best pair of legs in Glasgow', by George Wyllie, manuscript and typescript copy; 'The Safety-pin song'.

Extracts and quotations from works by other writers, and sketches, mostly undated.

Contents: 'Rainbow'; 'Song of the Clyde'; 'To the next past' (Kurt Vonnegut); 'Entertainment'; Aristotle; 'The Nautilus' and 'the drunken boat', by Roland Barthes; 'Le Bateau ivre'; Shamanism; Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Plato; Caithness reconquered, 2002; Mr Micawber [Charles Dickens]; 'Resurgam', [by George Wyllie?], 1999; Of the sense of propriety; 'A Christmas Carol' [Charles Dickens]; 'Harvesting the Edge', by G F Dutton; Norse myths; 'Mitteleuropa', by Claudio Magris; Jarry: Pataphysics; Hans Vaihinger; Ecclesiastes [Bible]; Captain Hook battle [J M Barry, Peter Pan]; 'Hamlet' [Shakespeare]; 'Staying alive at work', by David Whyte; 'The Mirror of the Sea', by Joseph Conrad; Ubu; 'Meditations on a Hobby Horse', by E H Gombrich, 1963; Liberty; Robert Burns quotation.

Typescripts by George Wyllie, with notes by other writers.

Contents: 'Bye bye Blackbird'; Bye bye Blackbirds suggested running order; 'The Ravens' [Serbian folk poem]; 'Sultan Murad fell ...' ; 'Notes on aircraft'; 'Celtic wisdom'; 'Bye bye Blackbird' 1 and 2.

My Words: essays by George Wyllie published in 'Artwork'. Typescripts, sketches and press cuttings. Also published as a book.

Folder 1 entitled 'W[ritings]: My Words' containing final proof for 'My Words, George Wyllie's Essays for Artwork' book published Famedram, 1998.
Contents: Cover design and title page for book; Sketches for opposite Preface and Foreword, January 1998; Preface, 1997; 'Voyaging beyond the bath-tub', June/July 1995, 4 pp; 'Now you see it ...' August/September 1995, 4 pp; 'Is it art, but', October/November 1995, 4 pp; 'The drone of conferences', December 1995/January 1996, 4 pp; 'A sideways look at gravity', February/March 1996, 4 pp; 'Breaking the habit', April/May 1996 (printed copy); 'All the fun of the * fair', June/July 1996, 3 pp; 'It’s a bonanza', October/November 1996, 3 pp; 'Clan, place, work', December 1996/January 1997, 4 pp; 'No beginnings in the offing', February/March 1997, 4 pp; 'Here’s to uncertainty!' April/May 1997, 3 pp; 'A ferry story', June/July 1997, 3 pp; 'Sketches of rabbits; Elton', October/November 1997, 3 pp, 'with The adulation of the mediocre', 4 pp; 'Cruising down the river', December 1997/January 1998, 3 pp, also revised version; Correspondence re ‘My words’ book, 1998.

Folder 2 entitled 'W[ritings]: Artwork' containing essays by George Wyllie published in 'ArtWork'.
Contents: 'An analysis of mediocrity', July 2000, 3 pp; 'Down in the tunnel something stirs', March 2000, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 103; 'Alternative comedy', undated, 3 pp; 'The invisible revolution', December 1999, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 101; 'On not writing about the millennium', undated, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 100, October/November 1999; 'The insistence of the stones', July 1999, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 99; 'The SOS...' 1999, 3 pp, with press article ‘George Wyllie on the quest for the stones of Scotland', 'ArtWork' 95, December 1998/January 1999; 'Enhancement by adjectives', press cutting from 'ArtWork' 96, February/March 1999; 'Done to a T...' press cutting from 'ArtWork' 93, August/September 1998; 'An introduction to teabag folding', with letter from Mrs K A Butlin, Dundee to George Wyllie, 9 October 1998; '‘Being’ with a capital ‘B’', undated, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 92, June/July 1998; 'Desert island tapes', undated, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 91, April/May 1998; ‘On yer bike’, January 1998, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 90; 'Cruising down the river': press cutting from ArtWork 89, December 1997/January 1998; 'Twenty year voyage beyond the bath-tub': press cutting from 'ArtWork' 74, June/July 1995; 'Getting to grips with a concept': press cutting from 'ArtWork' 75, August/September 1995; 'For a’ that and a’ that...' press cutting from 'ArtWork' 76, October/November 1995; 'Echoes of conferences', November 1995, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 77; 'Sideways is best!' January 1996, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 78; 'Breaking the habit', undated, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 79, April/May 1996; 'All the fun of the art fair', May 1996, 3pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 80; 'Bonanza time at the Arts jamboree', 1996, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 82, October/November 1996; Advert for George Wyllie’s book, ‘My words’, 'ArtWork' 89, December 1997/January 1998; 'A clan gathering – and how!' 1996, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 83, December 1996/January 1997; 'No beginnings in the offing?' January 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 84; 'Here’s to uncertainty!' 1997, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 85, April/May 1997; 'A ferry story', 1997, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 86, June/July 1997; 'Where does space exist?' 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 87, August/September 1997; 'The adulation of the mediocre', 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 88, October/November 1997.

Articles by other writers, typescript and press cuttings.

Contents: 'By leaves we live', by Kenny Munro, 'Reforesting Scotland', 18, Spring 1998, p 38, photocopy; Extracts from ‘Scottish firsts’, by Elspeth Wills, 'on Sir Alexander Fleming, James Watt, William Thomson Lord Kelvin, Alexander Graham Bell and John Logie Baird', undated typescript, 9 pp; 'Independence for Leith', by Sandy Campbell, September 2002, typescript, 4 pp; Email document, ‘The digital haze’, September 2001, 6 pp; 'In the room of the shaman', by Michael Tucker, c 1997, photocopy of typescript, 13 pp; 'Either the ladder or the wheel', by Patrick Reilly, press cutting possibly from 'The Herald', 8 May 2000; Photocopied articles on jade, lantern, stone and metal, source and date unknown, with manuscript note and sketch, 9 pp; Proposal for the creation of urban cultural network, by Bernard Kohn, Paris, April 1998, 7 pp, photocopy [on Geddes and Montpellier]; 'Will the emu fly?' By Robert McDowell, Demarco European Arts Foundation, Edinburgh, 30 November 1996, typescript, 7 pp; 'Captain Cadell’s canoe: the return of the Forerunner', by Kenny Munro, 'Reforesting Scotland', 25, Winter 2000, pp 44-45, photocopy; 'Now we seek to kill off the mind that first became aware of its soul', by Phil Barker, 'The Herald', 29 July 2000, p 15; 'The Gourock carcass', extract from ‘Bring me the head of the sea serpent’, by Karl P N Shuker, 'Strange Magazine', 15, Spring 1995; 'The man who knew all', by Bernard Levin [on Montaigne], unknown source and date, press cutting; 'The oldest alliances': book review by Kenneth White, 'Scotsman', 24 February 2001, press cutting; 'And did those feet?' [on William Blake, Glastonbury etc] with sketches, by C G S, photocopy, source and date unknown, 24 pp; 'The Consignia Lecture', by Kenneth White, photocopy of press article, 'The Herald', undated; Photocopied extracts on Hugh Miller and James Hutton, endorsed ‘Ref only for SOS [Stones of Scotland]', unknown source and date, 2 pp.

Manuscript and typescript documents mostly by George Wyllie, synopses for plays and films, project proposals, post cards, photographs.

Contents: Proposal for a collaborative project, Star Gap, Fablevision with George Wyllie, 1996, 6 pp; 'Stargap', [1996], 3 pp; manuscript notes on Stargap project, undated; Biographical details of performers, unknown production, 2000; Sketches for 'A Day down a Gold Mine', 16 April 1997; 'A second Clearance at Calgary' [synopsis for a film on Mull], undated, with two post cards, one dated August 1996 and colour photograph of a group of people with a spire; Script for ‘A voyage round a safety-pin’, 2nd draft with sketches, undated, 12 pp, with synopsis, 2 pp; 'I love Americana, but...', undated manuscript, 5 pp; Gold quotation, Arts review, 1998; Devices to improve votes for Scottish Conservatives, undated, with expanded version, undated, 4 pp; 'Stargap, another version', undated, 3 pp; Script for 'Stargap', with sketches, undated, 13 pp, and synopsis, undated, 5 pp, with compliments slip from Borderline Theatre Company Limited; 'The uneasy jig-saw', 8 December 1991; 'From the perimeter': synopsis, several drafts, 13 July 1987, 6 pp; 'George Wyllie – three minutes on rockets', undated; 'All art in Poland': synopsis, undated manuscript, 4 pp; 'Notes on three hours’ TV', undated; 'Eye of the storm': synopsis, undated; Greyhounds programme: rough outline, undated, 2 pp; 'Peter Pan and Wendy: George Wyllie and The Crocodile’s Dream', undated, 4 pp, and undated manuscript, 3 pp; 'The Kerrera saga...' undated, 3 pp, with flyer for production at James Arnott Theatre, University of Glasgow, 16-18 June [1998]; 'The Kerrera Saga': original b & w and watercolour sketches, 1998; 'Sailing around a safety-pin', undated; 'The Newry Light Orchestra': proposal for a project, undated; 'The Inverclyde Crystal': proposal, undated; 'Rock in the boat', June 1999, 2 pp, and earlier versions, April 1999 and undated; 'Royston re-visited': proposal for a short film for Glasgow Film Theatre, undated; 'My experience of making art beyond the gallery...' February 1997, 2 pp; 'The story of a stool' [on Jenny Geddes], from ‘Bygone Church life’, pp 255-259, with ‘The worthy memory of Jenny Geddes’, by Merilyn Smith [proposal for a memorial], 1992, and Script for Jenny, undated, 11 pp; Version of script with ‘Why Jenny threw the stool’, undated, 3 pp; 'The decent burial of a stuffed hare', undated manuscript; 'Sharmanka, or Russia, Schmussia: nine easy pieces': synopsis for documentary on Eduard Bersudky, April 1997, 5 pp.

Typescripts and press cuttings by George Wyllie.

Contents: 'Wyllie’s Way', illustrated with a sketch of the ‘Inverclyde Hilton’ [on Pierhead development at Gourock], Gourock Extra, undated, p 3, with 2 typed versions of ‘A view from the old Cloch’, July 1999, 2pp and ‘The Inverclyde Hilton’, July 1999, 2pp, and sketch of Inverclyde Hilton, 1999, 2 copies;' Joseph’s back in town!' [on Joseph Beuys], undated, [1990s?], typescript, 5 pp; 'Concepts of division', 'The Herald', 19 July 1999, press cutting; 'Beuys zone', 'Sunday Herald', 27 June 1999, pp 4-5, press cutting; The Govan Fair, [1998] typescript, 2 pp, with Kvaerner Govan visitor pass, 21 April 1998 and published version ‘The South side Vikings’, 'The Herald', 4 June 1998; 'What Tracey did', undated typescript, and 'Tracey’s chef d’oeuvre', photocopied extract on Tracey Emin, source and date unknown; 'Distance lends detachment', October 1998, typescript, 2 pp, with covering note from George Wyllie, 26 October 1998, and press article by Duncan Macmillan: 'How building a gallery could demolish a myth', 'Scotsman', 21 September 1998; 'A month in the country: a personal view', photocopy of article in 'Country Living', undated, with typescript ‘Air’, undated, 4 pp; 'Comments on modern architecture', March 1997, typescript for 'Scotland on Sunday' survey; Comment on the ‘Armadillo’ building [Glasgow], for 'Architects Journal', 1998; 'Impossible beginnings': contribution to ‘A Scottish childhood’, typescript, [1997], 2 pp, with letter from N Bailey, Killearn, 30 September 1997; 'All cultured out?' 'The Glaswegian', 16 October 1997, press cutting; 'Romance and pride of the city is set in stone' [on Townhead Spire], 'The Herald', 22 September 1997, press cutting; 'Mr Wyllie’s Millennial Marvels', 'The Herald', 1 March 1997, press cutting; 'Where there’s a will ...' [1997], typescript, 3 pp, with press cutting article on the Burrell Collection, 'Scotsman', 24 February 1997; 'Tidying up the attic' [1996], typescript, 4 pp, with published version ‘Snakes and ladders’, 'Scotland on Sunday', 25 August 1996; 'Punching the open air', [1996], typescript, 3 pp, with published version ‘Stir crazy’, 'Scotland on Sunday, 18 August 1996; Sad but true ... review of ‘Reckoning with the past’ exhibition at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland on Sunday', 11 August 1996; Review of British Art Show, undated typescript, several versions, 2 pp, with photocopy of Pantomime Tales, 'The List', 8-21 March 1996, and sketch of rabbits, 1996; 'White elephants and open-top buses' [1996], typescript, 2 pp, with published version ‘Princely virtues’, 'The Herald', 15 February 1996 [on Patrick Geddes and Scots College, Montpellier]; 'Building hope to heal scars of war' [on Hiroshima installation], 'The Herald', 7 August 1995, press cutting; 'Gouro-Tunnel' [1995], typescript, 3 pp and published version ‘Vision at the end of the Gouro-tunnel’, 'The Herald', 3 April 1995; 'Sticking up for peace' [on 32 Spires for Hibernia], 'Scotsman', 6 August 1994; 'A barrel-organ ...' review of exhibition of work by Eduard Bersudsky [1994], typescript, 2 pp, and published version ‘Monkey business mocks the absurd’, 'The Herald', 11 May 1994; 'Kissing Scotland goodbye' [on Richard Demarco’s possible gallery in Budapest], 'Scotsman' Weekend, 29 June 1991, pp 18-19; 'The day they raised Tower Bridge for the Paper Boat', 'Glasgow Herald', 23 September 1989, press cutting; 'The day we went to Documenta', 'Alba', Autumn 1987, pp 3, 39, offprint; 'What I hate is ... The enthusiasm of midges', [1991?], draft typescript, 4 pp, with published version ‘Getting a buzz from the good life’, 'Scotsman', 9 February 1991; 'It’s high noon at the Mound' [on removal of SSA annual exhibition from Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh], 'Scotland on Sunday', 6 August 1989, press cutting; Review of unknown exhibition, 'Alba' no 7, early 1998, offprint; 'Compass man on course to beat the grey thinkers' [on Cyril Gerber], 'Glasgow Herald', 29 April 1986, press cutting; 'Making equipment for sea fishing', 'Hobbies Weekly', vol 130:3369, 6 July 1960, p 245, offprint, with invoice from 'Hobbies Weekly' for payment of £1.

Typescripts, printed extracts and press cuttings by George Wyllie and others. 1984-2003, with a few earlier items.

Contents include: 'Decorating as poetical act', by Karen-Claire Voss, typescript 1994, 5 pp; 'All that jazz': George Melly interview by Emily Partridge, 'Scotland on Sunday', 1 July 2001, pp 16-19, press cutting; 'Purpose': poem by Eileann [?] with covering letter to George Wyllie, undated; 'Crystal ship': poem by Tessa Ransford, April 2003; Colour illustration of Black Mount, Rannoch Moor, with layout sketch on verso, undated; 'Art in Scotland', by Cordelia Oliver, 'Anglistik und englischunterricht', vol 38/39, 1989, pp 117-138, offprint, 2 copies; 'My airport plan is plain sailing', by Kathleen Mearns [suggestion of airport on Clyde Estuary], 'Greenock Telegraph', 15 August 2002, p 10, press cutting; Famedram books catalogue, undated, 3 copies; 'Why I (sort of) hate fireworks', by George Wyllie, August 2001, typescript, 2pp; 'The ‘Skylight’ and Para Handy’s dream', by George Wyllie, 2001, typescript, 2 pp; ‘The Granny Kempock Stone and the Gourock that was’, and ‘Sea serpent on the beach’, undated typescript, 6 pp; 'I once went down to the sea again', by George Wyllie, May 2003, typescript; 'The Spire and a Bird', by George Wyllie, May 2003, typescript; 'The Clackmannan sea chest', with sketch, by George Wyllie, August 2001, with biographical details; 'Scotland': poem, with sketch ‘How to make Ayr waves’, undated; 'In Canna harbour' and other poems with sketches, and covering letter from Allan Law, Gourock, 26 February 2003; 'The Fall': description of installation, by George Wyllie, November 2001; 'The difference of Hiroshima', by George Wyllie, undated; Correspondence with Dumfries and Galloway Council re Wyllie’s '32 Spires for Hibernia' exhibition at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, April-July 1997; Press cutting re cynicism about democracy, 'The Herald', 26 April 2003; Definitions of ‘field’ sent to George Wyllie by Kenny [Munro], 5 September 1997, with campus map of University of Glasgow; Invitations to Memorial to George Rickey, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York on 24 October 2002, and to Country Tribute for George Rickey at Hand Hollow, New York on 26 October 2002, with obituary of George Rickey by Cordelia Oliver, 'The Herald', 29 July 2002, press cutting; 'Extending concepts', manuscript notes by George Wyllie, undated, 4 pp; Colour picture of puffer, undated; Glasgow coat of arms, undated press cutting, with leaflet on Saint Mungo, Patron Saint of Glasgow, by Elspeth King, Glasgow Museums and Galleries, 1984, 4 pp; Old Gourock and Ashton Parish Church guidebook, c 1997, 12 pp; Illustration of safety pin on Nokia mobile phone advertisement, 'The Herald', 11 March 2003, press cutting; 'Stone language', with illustration of standing stones, by Norman Hallendy, 'Independent on Sunday', 15 October 2000, pp 36-37, press cutting; Fax from Mike Wilson to George Wyllie, 13 July 2001, on Wyllie’s ‘Tweed Bike’ at Velo-city 2001; Edinburgh Airport’s 'Look who’s talking' lunchtime talks by George Wyllie, Mary Marquis and Jeremy Spake at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, May 2000: flyer, 10 copies, and letter from Angela Petrie, Angela Petrie Associates, Glasgow to George Wyllie, confirming arrangements, 3 March 2000; 'Let’s name this ship', by George Wyllie, 1981, typescript on card; Sketch for Agnus Dei, 1966 or 1968; Photocopied extracts from ‘A journey from Hagar Qim to the Ring of Brodgar’, edited by David Bellman, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, December 1976, 11 pp, with information on Martin of Tours (c 316-397), photocopy, unknown source and date; Dynamic place awards 2002: supreme award The Falkirk Wheel, Scottish Enterprise, 2002, 12 pp booklet; Millennium award for the most healing show on the Fringe to George Wyllie and cast of ‘Bye, bye, blackbird’, 1999; 'The making of Ronnie Singh': outline of a feature film by Stuart Hepburn, 7 March 1996, typescript, 15, 11 pp; Sketches of a lamb, with manuscript captions, by George Wyllie, undated, 4 pp; Article on Sean Connery, 'The Herald' Magazine, 8 March 2003, press cutting.