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Robert 'Bob' Tait
GB 249 KIR/1/2 · File · 1965 - 1971
Part of Kirkwood papers

Letters from Robert (Bob) Tait to Colin and Gerri Kirkwood. Includes the poems:

'Supermartimplode'
'The Third Ghost Story'
'The Electric Age'
'Sgt. Pepper, Caretaker'
'Trains a Boat & a Plane'

Also includes campaign leaflet for Bob Tait's candidacy for Edinburgh council election, [1970], and two letters, 1969, from an unidentified correspondent called Irene.

Tait, Robert, 1943-2017, writer and intellectual
Ian Hamilton Finlay
GB 249 KIR/1/3 · File · c. 1960s
Part of Kirkwood papers

Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Colin Kirkwood. Also included is a list of books.

Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006, poet, writer, artist and gardener
Edwin Morgan
GB 249 KIR/1/4 · File · 1969 - 1971
Part of Kirkwood papers

Three letters and a Christmas card from Edwin Morgan to Colin Kirkwood. Includes the poems:

'Shadows'
'The Loch Ness Monster'
'and blue toboggans'

Morgan, Edwin George, 1920-2010, poet and translator
David Godwin
GB 249 KIR/1/5 · File · 1960s - 1996
Part of Kirkwood papers
  • Letters and poems from David Godwin to Colin Kirkwood, 1960s-1992.

  • Papers relating to death of David Godwin, 1996. Includes obituary from The Herald newspaper, funeral programme, euology delivered by Colin Kirkwood, poem entitled 'The Marriage Feast: Song Cycle' read by Colin Kirkwood at the funeral.

Godwin, David Philip, 1944-1996, community activist and poet
Tom Leonard
GB 249 KIR/1/1 · File · 1966 - 2005
Part of Kirkwood papers

Letters, poetry and articles from Tom Leonard to Colin and Gerri Kirkwood, 1966-2005. Includes the poems 'Words, for Eva', ''Cheer up,' she says. 'How do you like my dress?'', 'The Fair Cop', and 'Remembrance Day' in addition to various un-named poems. Also includes two articles written by Leonard for the 'Scotsman' newspaper on the poet James Thompson of Port Glasgow.

Leonard, Tom, 1944-2018, poet

Correspondence with and about safety and environment campaigner Alan Dalton.
Includes:
-Papers about the TUC Safety Convention 1997
-Correspondence about the death of Alan Dalton, on 11 Dec 2003, and his funeral
-A document: 'A Tribute to Alan Dalton'
-Minutes of a meeting of the National Hazards Campaign, 15 July 2002
-Papers and correspondence about a joint Hazards Campaign/TUC conference, 23 April 2001, at which Nancy Tait spoke
-Invitation to Alan Dalton's 50th Birthday Party
-Press Releases
-Some copies of Dalton articles
-Correspondence about Alan's involvement in and his leaving the 'Transport and General Workers' Union' (T&G)
-Correspondence about the OEDA 'balloon release', 1998
-Dalton's comments on the 'Peto Report', 1997
-Correspondence about fibre levels
-Copy of booklet 'Fighting Asbestos at work & at home'
-Copies of various articles about asbestos
-Copy of an article about John McPherson's story: 'Gleswegians fight asbestos'

Dalton, Alan James Patrick, 1946-2003, safety and environmental campaigner

Correspondence and papers, among them news coverage, press reports, scientific papers. Includes:

  • correspondence with Belgian journalist Salvatore Nay (with copy of Nay’s contribution to the special issue of the ‘International journal of occupational and environmental health’ (IJOEH), ‘War on asbestos’ vol. 9(3) (2003) on floppy disc); further includes photocopy of a note by Étienne Auribault, Health & Safety Inspector, re asbestos, published in ‘Bulletin de l’inspection du travail’ 1906
  • correspondence re the European Union Directive on exposure to asbestos at work and other European health & safety measures
  • a little material relating to German Green politician and activist Petra Kelly; the Tait-Kelly correspondence can be consulted in the Petra-Kelly-Archive, Archive, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
  • extract from proceedings of the IFF/WHO-EUROPE workshop ‘Cultural factors in worksite health promotion’, ?Linz, Austria, 31 May - 5 June 1987

Salvatore Nay was director of Francophone radio television in Belgium (RTBF) and one of the first in Belgium to reveal the asbestos scandal.

Copies of the 'British asbestos newsletter' (or 'BAN') 1990-2007, with intercalated material including correspondence.

Incomplete set; the following numbers are missing:

  • ?2, ?4, 6, 9, 27, 37, 43, 44, 50, 51, 54, 55, and 66

BAN was founded and edited by global anti-asbestos advocate Laurie Kazan-Allen.

Allen, Laurie, Kazan-, b. 1947, anti-asbestos campaigner
GB 249 OF/8/1/2 · File · c. 1830
Part of Botanical illustrations

These are distinguished from the other groups of illustrations by appearing to be hand-coloured engravings, each identified by a table number, also engraved, except in one instance.

  • Tab. 4 (in pencil) Symphytum officinale. L.
  • Tab. 35 (engraved) Tanactetum vulgare. L.
  • Tab. 60 (engraved) Rosmarinus officinalis. L.
  • Tab. 68 (engraved) Bactyrilobium Fistula Willd.
  • Tab. 71 (engraved) Tussilago Farfara. L. a. planta florens.
  • Tab. 112 (engraved) Mentha piperita. L.
  • Tab. 128 (engraved) Verbascum phlomoides. L.
  • Tab. 133 (engraved) Cannabis sativa. L. a. mas.
  • Tab. 180 (engraved) Cassia Senna. L.
  • Tab. 197 (engraved) Juniperus Sabina. L.
  • Tab. 206 (engraved) Arbutus Uva ursi. L.
  • No. 231 (engraved) Artemisia Santonica. Gmel.
  • Tab. 234 (engraved) Cucumis Colocynthis. L.