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Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers re enquiries from individuals affected by asbestos ('Z-files' No 1-555). In reverse chronological order. Includes

• instructions on new OEDA office procedures for processing 'First reports' to 'Z-cases'
• printout of listing Z4 to Z292, dated March 1999
• colour photograph of asbestos victim at Z264

Area Board Members' handbooks; examination papers; Scottish Final Company Competition/Year End Celebration programmes and judging guidelines; Annual Conference programmes.

Correspondence and papers re the work of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos (ACA / Simpson Committee).

Originally structured as follows:

• drafts for discussion, correspondence re proceedings
• ‘Hansard’
• ‘Press’
• ‘Letters’ [this was empty]
• ‘General information’
• ‘Commission members’
• ‘Oral evidence’ (including that of Nancy Tait and Jean Robinson, Turner & Newall, and Eternit)
• ‘Written evidence’

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.

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).

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, 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.