Correspondence, sketches, press cuttings and articles, leaflets of tourist and general interest.
Contents include: The nature of the Lordship [of the Isles], source and date unknown, 2pp (photocopy), with Sketch of ‘The Stones of Scotland’, May 2000; The strange case of Richard Demarco, by Giles Sutherland, 'Etudes Ecossaises', no 6, [19 ], pp 47-56 (photocopy); Extract on Joseph Beuys, source and date unknown; The biology of art, 'Economist', 3 April 1999, pp 93-95; A tragic treasure: sinking of the [ship] Akka in 1956, 'Scotsman', 3 March 2001; Leaflet on Cairngorm reindeer herd, August 1979, 4 pp; Glasgow Eastern Necropolis Heritage Trail, [19 ], 9 pp (Photocopy); Orwell’s England, National Theatre, [19 ], 11 pp; Addiction, by John Collee, 'Observer', [19 ], p 54; Trees for towns: extract, source and date unknown, 4 pp; 'Sacred trees in Scottish folklore', part 1, by Tess Darwin, 'Reforesting Scotland', no 10, Spring 1994, pp 8-10, with, 'Hisøy: a forest on the edge', by Brendan Hill, pp 23-26, and, 'The radical rowan': newsletter for members of Reforesting Scotland, no 6, March 1994, 4 pp; Leaflet on British hallmarks, Birmingham, Assay Office, [19 ], 12 pp; 'Vikings to blame for Scottish national dish', [19 ]; Letter from Ian Yeomans, London, 11 February 1982, endorsed ‘ Refers to HMS Edinburgh’; Eric Hoffer: the true believer [on Bartlesville Community Center, Oklahoma, USA], [19 ], 6 pp; Will of John Anderson, founding Anderson’s University, 7 May 1795, University of Strathclyde, [1996], 2 pp; MS notes of funnel colours of shipping companies trading to the Port of Glasgow up to around 1960; Extract from ‘The islands of Scotland’ by MacDiarmid, c 1939, 3 pp (Poor quality photocopy); Letter from Springburn Academy, Glasgow seeking support for Technology Exchange Visit to Washington DC in June 1997, 4 pp; UFA Fabrik Berlin, 2 pp, with leaflet on Circus Festival [in German], c 1994, 8 pp; Letter from Mary Aitkenhead, Oldham to 'Scots Magazine', October 1993, p 434, suggesting similarities between Scots and Greek words; Poster on history of the Stock Exchange, London, [19 ]; Keepers of the flame, by Mark Singer, 'New Yorker', 3 June 1991, pp 89-103 [on Tom Mix]; Fax from Neil Baxter Associates, Edinburgh on Latin phrases, 13 August 1996; Poster on the George Bennie railplane, [19 ]; Printed list of second hand booksellers in Glasgow and Edinburgh, [19 ], 2 pp; Six days in Ancient China through the eyes of a 19 year old girl travelling alone, by Emma ...., August-September 1998, with sketches of terracotta warriors, 15 pp; 'A tax on economic pollution', by Liam McDougall, 'Big Issue in Scotland', 20-26 April 2000, pp 22-23; Guru without credit, by Erlend Clouston, 'Sunday Times', 28 November 1999 [on Clifford Douglas and theory of social credit] (photocopy); Roman numerals [19 ]; Notes on calligraphy, by Barbara Bundy, 1984, 8 pp; 'Wilderness and the Wes't, by T H Watkins, unknown source and date, pp 324-329 [on conservation in USA], endorsed ‘Beuys was in tune with this stuff’; 'Ten thousand artists, not one master', by Satish Kumar, in 'Conversations before the end of time', by Suzi Gablik, Thames & Hudson, 1997, pp 133-154 (photocopy), endorsed ‘George, a synergic discussion!? Kenny’; Collection of articles from 'Scots Magazine'; Photograph of Demarco and colleagues in Edinburgh, [19 ]; A parbuckle: definition and sketches, [19 ]; Strategy Get Arts, Edinburgh International Festival 1970, by Cordelia Oliver, 3 pp; Cartouche from Laurie’s New chart of the Windward Passages and Bahama Islands ... by John Purdy, London, Holmes, Laurie, 1864; Cartoons re Inuit, [19 ], 2 pp; Leaflet on Eden Project, [19 ]; 'A garden to dye for', by Nick Ibbotson, unknown source and date, pp 89-92 [on natural dyes]; Press cutting re SS Persia, unknown source and date; Press cutting on Chernobyl fallout, Herald, 4 March 2003; Machrihanish: end of a dream, by Tim Wander, 'Ham Radio Today', August 1987, pp 19-22, with, Notes on Fessenden of Machrihanish, 3 pp, and, Mackinnon of Balinakill, 4 pp, and, Post card from Donald Kelly, Muasdale, Argyll, 17 June 2001; Cart Blanche: minutes of meeting held on 22 January 2003 [refers to River Cart, Glasgow]; Letter from Northlands Festival, 11 October 2001, 6 pp; Joseph Kosuth recent works: exhibition flyer, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, September-October 1987; Press cutting on redevelopment of Greenock Rope Works, 'Greenock Telegraph', 8 February 2003; 'Footprints in the shifting sand', by Oona Strathern, 'Observer', 10 March 1991, p 69 [on Arthur Rimbaud in Ethiopia]; 'Foul deeds of desecration', by Bernard Levin, 'Times', 6 June 1988 [on a Maori head]; 'Why it is futile to try to cure the malaise in Ulster’s heart', by Patrick Reilly, 'Herald', 26 July 1999; 'Cybernetic paradise that has become hell of the rat race', by Pat Reilly, Herald, 31 January 2000; 'Malevolent vision of a hated war criminal', by Ian Bell, 'Scotsman', 27 December 1996 [on Radovan Karadzic]; Press cuttings on modern art, 2001-2002; Article on vegetarianism, by Anvar Khan, unknown source and date; Press cuttings on Jools Holland, 'Observer', 7 April 2002 and Tam Cowan, unknown source and date.