Year books and departmental newsletters published by students and staff of the Scottish Hotel School.
Book with twenty four reproductions of photographs of buildings and notable views at Yale University
'Published by The Edward P. Judd Co. [ ... ] New Haven, Conn.'
Read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 17 May 1880. Reprinted from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh', Vol. xxix. Pt. ii. Printed.
Illustration of the Town Hall in Wurzburg.
'Rathaus zu Würzburg'
'Gez. u. gest. v. Joh. Poppel. München'
'G. Franz München'
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’
John Anderson's writings and experiments on artillery; plan of the Greenock batteries, c 1795.
The titles of the files are those assigned by Wyllie.
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.
Guidelines on essay writing and examination technique.
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.