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The MacGillivray Walk, May 25-August 29, 1996 [the erection of 7 spires at Fochabers, Forres, Foyers, Beauly, Kinlochewe, Poolewe and Harris, to commemorate a journey from Aberdeen to Harris by William MacGillivray in 1817]. Includes notes, transcripts from MacGillivray’s diary, and 25 colour photographs, various sizes.

Correspondence and documents, advertisements for lectures by George Wyllie, exhibition programmes, flyers and invitations, conference programme, photographs, tourist leaflets.

Contents include: Notes on An Leabhar Mor/ The Great Book of Gaelic project, 2002; Colour photographs of statue of John Barry in Wexford, Ireland, 2002; Colour photographs of gold mine in Victoria, Australia and Certificate of Miner’s Rights; Sketch, ticket and price list for the Bay Club, Gourock, 1963; Polythene bag for Caithness air.

Articles and press cuttings, tourist leaflet and exhibition programme.

Contents include: Biographical notes on Richard Demarco, c 1996, 2 pp; Laurel and Hardy press cutting, unknown source and date; Leaflet on Christ’s Chapel, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 1978, 6 pp; Letter from L’Annexe du College de Pataphysique, London, 7 November 1994, 2 pp [on Blake’s Bike]; Press cuttings on opening of Macdonald’s Restaurant in Greenock, February 1997; Sunderland Arts Centre programme, 29 November-22 December [19 ]; 'The British gentleman', by John Masters, with cartoon by Ronald Searle, unknown source and date; 'Tidy up and atrophy', by Paul Jennings, 'Daily Telegraph', 13 December 1974; Press release on Living Art exhibition, D M Vaughan Accountants, Edinburgh, 10-17 May 1991; 'The Waldorf-Astoria clock', by Geoffrey S Bullard and Nahum H Lewis, 'Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Inc', vol 25:6, no 227, December 1983, pp 675-685 (photocopy); Press cuttings on clocks, kitchen ranges, Oriental script, and Chinese funeral in Gourock, 1986;' Joseph Beuys (supposing he hadn’t died)': questionnaire signed on his behalf by George Wyllie, 1990?; Louise’s [George Wyllie’s daughter] version of The art of the family: press cutting on the Mynott family, annotated to apply to the Wyllies, [19 ]; Press release from Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, 30 August 1985; 'The proof of the mince pie', by Tom Leonard, 'Scottish International', 1975? pp 20-23; 'Hoklakia', by John Hope, Crafts, July/August 1975, pp 13-15 [on pebble mosaics]; Drawings of teachers’ belts (photocopy); Press cutting on paper boat built by Elisabeth McKay, Brechin, Press and Journal, 3 July 1996

Correspondence, articles and press cuttings on David Hume, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment.

Contents include: 'Let there be light': Jim Gilchrist on a new Enlightenment, 'Scotsman', 27 February 1999, p 13; 'Her man in Scotland': the Adam Smith Institute, by Ian Bell, 'Observer Scotland', 5 February 1989, p 7; Correspondence with Hyundai Securities (Europe) Ltd re research on Adam Smith, November 1997, 4 pp; Certified copy of the Last Will and Testament of David Hume Esq, 15 April 1776, 5 pp (Photocopy of printed version); Letter from Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy to William Strahan, 9 November 1776, 7 pp, on David Hume (Photocopy of printed version); Press cuttings on Adam Smith, from 'Scotsman', 19 May 1988, Herald, 10 February & 31 July 1989, & 14 July 1990, and 'Independent on Sunday', 13 March 1994; Faxed information from Kenny Munro on Thomas Muir of Huntershill, 7 November 1998; Trafalgar House Offshore Fabrications Ltd Adam Smith Lecture by Donald MacKay, with Biographical notes on Donald Iain MacKay, [c 1993], 8 pp (Photocopy); Review of ‘Crisis of the democratic intellect’, by George Davie, by Murdo Macdonald, 'University of Edinburgh Bulletin', 1980?; 'Adam Ferguson and the idea of community', by Duncan Forbes, undated, 2 pp.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

File of correspondence marked 'Recent'.

Folder entitled 'Press: 89/91'.

Folder entitled 'Press: 94/95'.

Folder entitled 'Press 96/96'.

Folder entitled 'Press: undated'.