Correspondence, poems, project notes and sketches, testimonials, press cuttings and articles, quotations, programmes and flyers for exhibitions, theatre productions and restaurants.
Contents include: Sourcing the Clyde project, March 1996; Song notebook of Annie C Brockley [words of mainly Scottish songs]; Guide to St James Church, Piccadilly, London; manuscript notes on Paper Boat components, [1989?], 2 pp; manuscript notes on Lanarkshire trees, [19 ], 3 pp; Biographical notes on artists, scientists and patrons, possibly relating to a lecture by Richard Demarco, [19 ], 8 pp; Press cuttings on [Glasgow] Concert Hall murals protest, 1990; Leaflet on Red Cross Centre, 'Irvine, Architects’ Journal', 9 September 1992, 6 pp, with manuscript notes on garden sculptures; Note on Fred Bushe, January 1982; Note on Dennis Shields, May 1996, 2 pp; Press cutting 1992 and post card 1998 re Jenny Geddes, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh; Notes on George Wyllie by George Melly, for 'Christmas Day down a Gold Mine at Brentford', [1984]; Poem for opening of Glasgow Art Club Christmas Show, December 1997, 2 pp; Bumper Dragon, December 1974; Leaflet on Queen Street Station [Glasgow] Catering Complex, Clyde Bar, [19 ]; manuscript notes and sketches of Cape Sounien [?], September 1981, 3 pp; Henry David Thoreau as a source for artistic inspiration: exhibition notes, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA, June-September 1984, 4 pp; Draft Constitution for Demarco European Cultural Institute, October 1996; Press cuttings re Bill Williams and ‘Artwork’, 1994; ‘The Man of Straw’, July 1991; 'Just in Case', February 1996; A small Scottish monument, February 1992; Ubiquitous Chip, Glasgow: menus [19 ]; Portsmouth exhibition, July 1996; The ‘Norse background’ to the Govan hogbacks [grave stones], by Barbara E Crawford, unknown source and date, pp 103-112, 127 (photocopy); 'What else could a Viking do?' [poem], [19 ]; Demarco, October 1998; The Dilemma: quotations, unknown source and date; Miro, by Harold Rosenberg, New Yorker, 12 November 1973, 2pp (photocopy); Light is like water, unknown source and date, 4 pp (photocopy); 'The Bosun’s Pipe', 1998, with published list of ships entering dock at Greenock from 1939-1945, [by Alexander Kidd], [19 ], 3 pp (photocopy); manuscript notes and sketch of Glasgow’s ‘Condom Tower’, 1992; Letter to Glasgow City Council in support of 'New Beginnings' Project, 11 November 1991; 32 Spires for Hibernia, 1994, 3 pp; Exhibition of paintings by the late Thomas M R Caldwell; Review by George Wyllie of Stomu Yamashta’s ‘Iroha’ life of change, Holland Park Theatre, London, September 1981, 2 pp; Gracefield Arts Centre programme, October 1991-April 1992, 6 pp; Burrell’s neglected neighbour, by Murdo Macdonald, 'Scotsman', 25 September 1989; Information on song entitled ‘The Titanic’s disaster’, [19 ]; Sartre and Camus: extract from thesis by Cindy Crisp, [19 ], x pp; 'MacTotem: reviewing the Duke of Sutherland monument': project publicity and ‘Take off...’: note by George Wyllie, 1998; 'Poles apart on lightning field', by Walter De Maria, Horizon, April 1978, p 84; Jarry and ‘Pataphysics’, [19 ]; Done to a ‘T’, [19 ], 2 pp; Sketch for a spire, May 1998; Extract from ‘The mirror of the sea’, unknown source and date, pp 30-31 (photocopy); ‘The Maydaze Pigeon’, 1998; Desert island tapes, 1990, 2 pp [on Gruinard]; Joseph Beuys, by Craig Richardson, [19 ]; ‘The Bike Show’ at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh: press release, [19 ]; You – the city, by Fiona Templeton, London International Festival of Theatre, 1989: programme; Armorial insignia of the City of Glasgow: illustrated leaflet; The Millennium Blister, August/September 1997, 2 pp; ‘Cloudwalk no 5’, December 1997, 3 pp; In the Doubtful Beginning, [19 ], 2 pp; 'Impossible Beginnings', July 1997; [Birds], [19 ], 2 pp; 'On midges', [19 ] (photocopy); 'on the Truth of Stone', January 1995; Peisthetaerus, [19 ]; Clach-grian [poem], [19 ]; The Pin Song – ‘A Stone is a stone...’, [19 ]; The Biplane [poem], [19 ]; Leaflets on Patrick Geddes events, 1997-1998; Gracefield Arts Centre programme, April-October 1991, 6 pp; On enhancement by adjectives, [19 ], 2 pp; 'The birds have a tough time in Gourock' [manuscript poem], [19 ]; Quotations re Robert Burns; John Masefield ‘Sea fever’ [poem] (photocopy); 'Ravens!' [MS and typescript extract from epic Serbian folk poem, 1999], 11 pp; I am a horse [poem, author unknown][19 ]; 'Robin' [poem, author unknown][19 ]; 'Kaspar is dead' [poem, author unknown][19 ]; 'On civil disobedience', January 1999, 2 pp; Notes on Neil Munro, from Information Centre, Inveraray, [19 ], 2 pp [poor quality]; ‘The Spire’, [19 ]; article on Corpach from ‘The cultivated wilderness’, by Paul Shepheard, [19 ], pp 88-99 (photocopy); 'A Canary with its Foot caught in a Girder', 1998; 'The Inverclyde Crystal', [1999?]; Arts Council of England: leaflet, 1998? 6 pp; Anti-Robert Burns Club, [19 ]; 'Just in Case', August 1997; The ‘Whinhill Witness’: text and press cuttings, 1998
