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2 sheets pasted together to create single page.

Correspondence, predominantly 1996-2004.

File of correspondence marked 'Recent'.

Correspondence with funding bodies, local authorities, museums and galleries, business firms, broadcast and print media, universities, charities, local art clubs and individuals.

Articles by other writers, typescript and press cuttings.

Contents: 'By leaves we live', by Kenny Munro, 'Reforesting Scotland', 18, Spring 1998, p 38, photocopy; Extracts from ‘Scottish firsts’, by Elspeth Wills, 'on Sir Alexander Fleming, James Watt, William Thomson Lord Kelvin, Alexander Graham Bell and John Logie Baird', undated typescript, 9 pp; 'Independence for Leith', by Sandy Campbell, September 2002, typescript, 4 pp; Email document, ‘The digital haze’, September 2001, 6 pp; 'In the room of the shaman', by Michael Tucker, c 1997, photocopy of typescript, 13 pp; 'Either the ladder or the wheel', by Patrick Reilly, press cutting possibly from 'The Herald', 8 May 2000; Photocopied articles on jade, lantern, stone and metal, source and date unknown, with manuscript note and sketch, 9 pp; Proposal for the creation of urban cultural network, by Bernard Kohn, Paris, April 1998, 7 pp, photocopy [on Geddes and Montpellier]; 'Will the emu fly?' By Robert McDowell, Demarco European Arts Foundation, Edinburgh, 30 November 1996, typescript, 7 pp; 'Captain Cadell’s canoe: the return of the Forerunner', by Kenny Munro, 'Reforesting Scotland', 25, Winter 2000, pp 44-45, photocopy; 'Now we seek to kill off the mind that first became aware of its soul', by Phil Barker, 'The Herald', 29 July 2000, p 15; 'The Gourock carcass', extract from ‘Bring me the head of the sea serpent’, by Karl P N Shuker, 'Strange Magazine', 15, Spring 1995; 'The man who knew all', by Bernard Levin [on Montaigne], unknown source and date, press cutting; 'The oldest alliances': book review by Kenneth White, 'Scotsman', 24 February 2001, press cutting; 'And did those feet?' [on William Blake, Glastonbury etc] with sketches, by C G S, photocopy, source and date unknown, 24 pp; 'The Consignia Lecture', by Kenneth White, photocopy of press article, 'The Herald', undated; Photocopied extracts on Hugh Miller and James Hutton, endorsed ‘Ref only for SOS [Stones of Scotland]', unknown source and date, 2 pp.

Booklet about the ancient stones of Calanais and thoughts upon the truth of stone. Gourock: George Wyllie, January 1995.

My Words: essays by George Wyllie published in 'Artwork'. Typescripts, sketches and press cuttings. Also published as a book.

Folder 1 entitled 'W[ritings]: My Words' containing final proof for 'My Words, George Wyllie's Essays for Artwork' book published Famedram, 1998.
Contents: Cover design and title page for book; Sketches for opposite Preface and Foreword, January 1998; Preface, 1997; 'Voyaging beyond the bath-tub', June/July 1995, 4 pp; 'Now you see it ...' August/September 1995, 4 pp; 'Is it art, but', October/November 1995, 4 pp; 'The drone of conferences', December 1995/January 1996, 4 pp; 'A sideways look at gravity', February/March 1996, 4 pp; 'Breaking the habit', April/May 1996 (printed copy); 'All the fun of the * fair', June/July 1996, 3 pp; 'It’s a bonanza', October/November 1996, 3 pp; 'Clan, place, work', December 1996/January 1997, 4 pp; 'No beginnings in the offing', February/March 1997, 4 pp; 'Here’s to uncertainty!' April/May 1997, 3 pp; 'A ferry story', June/July 1997, 3 pp; 'Sketches of rabbits; Elton', October/November 1997, 3 pp, 'with The adulation of the mediocre', 4 pp; 'Cruising down the river', December 1997/January 1998, 3 pp, also revised version; Correspondence re ‘My words’ book, 1998.

Folder 2 entitled 'W[ritings]: Artwork' containing essays by George Wyllie published in 'ArtWork'.
Contents: 'An analysis of mediocrity', July 2000, 3 pp; 'Down in the tunnel something stirs', March 2000, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 103; 'Alternative comedy', undated, 3 pp; 'The invisible revolution', December 1999, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 101; 'On not writing about the millennium', undated, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 100, October/November 1999; 'The insistence of the stones', July 1999, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 99; 'The SOS...' 1999, 3 pp, with press article ‘George Wyllie on the quest for the stones of Scotland', 'ArtWork' 95, December 1998/January 1999; 'Enhancement by adjectives', press cutting from 'ArtWork' 96, February/March 1999; 'Done to a T...' press cutting from 'ArtWork' 93, August/September 1998; 'An introduction to teabag folding', with letter from Mrs K A Butlin, Dundee to George Wyllie, 9 October 1998; '‘Being’ with a capital ‘B’', undated, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 92, June/July 1998; 'Desert island tapes', undated, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 91, April/May 1998; ‘On yer bike’, January 1998, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 90; 'Cruising down the river': press cutting from ArtWork 89, December 1997/January 1998; 'Twenty year voyage beyond the bath-tub': press cutting from 'ArtWork' 74, June/July 1995; 'Getting to grips with a concept': press cutting from 'ArtWork' 75, August/September 1995; 'For a’ that and a’ that...' press cutting from 'ArtWork' 76, October/November 1995; 'Echoes of conferences', November 1995, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 77; 'Sideways is best!' January 1996, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 78; 'Breaking the habit', undated, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 79, April/May 1996; 'All the fun of the art fair', May 1996, 3pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 80; 'Bonanza time at the Arts jamboree', 1996, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 82, October/November 1996; Advert for George Wyllie’s book, ‘My words’, 'ArtWork' 89, December 1997/January 1998; 'A clan gathering – and how!' 1996, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 83, December 1996/January 1997; 'No beginnings in the offing?' January 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 84; 'Here’s to uncertainty!' 1997, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 85, April/May 1997; 'A ferry story', 1997, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 86, June/July 1997; 'Where does space exist?' 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 87, August/September 1997; 'The adulation of the mediocre', 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 88, October/November 1997.

Typescripts, manuscript and printed extracts by George Wyllie and other writers.

Contents include: 'Poems and songs to lift the heart', printed from internet, January 2003, 4 pp; 'Abort abort', undated; Letter from ... Thurso, 5 October 2001 to George Wyllie, 2 pp, mentioning Atlantic Vent; Poems by Rabindranath Tagore; Introduction to ‘The World Song’, by George Wyllie? undated, 10 pp manuscript and typescript; Poems for the Stones of Scotland project, 2000; 'The beginning of a new song', by Iain Crichton Smith; 'Miklagard', by Colin Mackay, unknown source and date, pp 66-70; 'America’s poet, Walt Whitman, by Joel L Swerdlow', offprint from 'National Geographic', with poem by Robert Frost, ‘The gift outright’; 'For George Ralston Wyllie', by Kenny Munro, August 2000, with 'For Graham Mitchell Ross', by George Wyllie, and information on ‘The Dedication Books’ from Alec Finlay, 'Morning Star', Edinburgh, undated; 'Happy Compass', poem and illustration for 'An Leabhar Mor' [The Great Book of Gaelic], 2002, with project details; 'Ode to the best pair of legs in Glasgow', by George Wyllie, manuscript and typescript copy; 'The Safety-pin song'.

Set of original drawings for the book 'My words : George Wyllie's original ArtWork essays' (Famedram, 1998), also photocopied set. 40 pp.

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.

Gourock: Scul?ture Press, 1983. 1st edition of 50 copies, signed and hand coloured by the Historian. Copy 37/50.

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.

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.

Typescripts, printed extracts and press cuttings by George Wyllie and others. 1984-2003, with a few earlier items.

Contents include: 'Decorating as poetical act', by Karen-Claire Voss, typescript 1994, 5 pp; 'All that jazz': George Melly interview by Emily Partridge, 'Scotland on Sunday', 1 July 2001, pp 16-19, press cutting; 'Purpose': poem by Eileann [?] with covering letter to George Wyllie, undated; 'Crystal ship': poem by Tessa Ransford, April 2003; Colour illustration of Black Mount, Rannoch Moor, with layout sketch on verso, undated; 'Art in Scotland', by Cordelia Oliver, 'Anglistik und englischunterricht', vol 38/39, 1989, pp 117-138, offprint, 2 copies; 'My airport plan is plain sailing', by Kathleen Mearns [suggestion of airport on Clyde Estuary], 'Greenock Telegraph', 15 August 2002, p 10, press cutting; Famedram books catalogue, undated, 3 copies; 'Why I (sort of) hate fireworks', by George Wyllie, August 2001, typescript, 2pp; 'The ‘Skylight’ and Para Handy’s dream', by George Wyllie, 2001, typescript, 2 pp; ‘The Granny Kempock Stone and the Gourock that was’, and ‘Sea serpent on the beach’, undated typescript, 6 pp; 'I once went down to the sea again', by George Wyllie, May 2003, typescript; 'The Spire and a Bird', by George Wyllie, May 2003, typescript; 'The Clackmannan sea chest', with sketch, by George Wyllie, August 2001, with biographical details; 'Scotland': poem, with sketch ‘How to make Ayr waves’, undated; 'In Canna harbour' and other poems with sketches, and covering letter from Allan Law, Gourock, 26 February 2003; 'The Fall': description of installation, by George Wyllie, November 2001; 'The difference of Hiroshima', by George Wyllie, undated; Correspondence with Dumfries and Galloway Council re Wyllie’s '32 Spires for Hibernia' exhibition at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, April-July 1997; Press cutting re cynicism about democracy, 'The Herald', 26 April 2003; Definitions of ‘field’ sent to George Wyllie by Kenny [Munro], 5 September 1997, with campus map of University of Glasgow; Invitations to Memorial to George Rickey, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York on 24 October 2002, and to Country Tribute for George Rickey at Hand Hollow, New York on 26 October 2002, with obituary of George Rickey by Cordelia Oliver, 'The Herald', 29 July 2002, press cutting; 'Extending concepts', manuscript notes by George Wyllie, undated, 4 pp; Colour picture of puffer, undated; Glasgow coat of arms, undated press cutting, with leaflet on Saint Mungo, Patron Saint of Glasgow, by Elspeth King, Glasgow Museums and Galleries, 1984, 4 pp; Old Gourock and Ashton Parish Church guidebook, c 1997, 12 pp; Illustration of safety pin on Nokia mobile phone advertisement, 'The Herald', 11 March 2003, press cutting; 'Stone language', with illustration of standing stones, by Norman Hallendy, 'Independent on Sunday', 15 October 2000, pp 36-37, press cutting; Fax from Mike Wilson to George Wyllie, 13 July 2001, on Wyllie’s ‘Tweed Bike’ at Velo-city 2001; Edinburgh Airport’s 'Look who’s talking' lunchtime talks by George Wyllie, Mary Marquis and Jeremy Spake at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, May 2000: flyer, 10 copies, and letter from Angela Petrie, Angela Petrie Associates, Glasgow to George Wyllie, confirming arrangements, 3 March 2000; 'Let’s name this ship', by George Wyllie, 1981, typescript on card; Sketch for Agnus Dei, 1966 or 1968; Photocopied extracts from ‘A journey from Hagar Qim to the Ring of Brodgar’, edited by David Bellman, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, December 1976, 11 pp, with information on Martin of Tours (c 316-397), photocopy, unknown source and date; Dynamic place awards 2002: supreme award The Falkirk Wheel, Scottish Enterprise, 2002, 12 pp booklet; Millennium award for the most healing show on the Fringe to George Wyllie and cast of ‘Bye, bye, blackbird’, 1999; 'The making of Ronnie Singh': outline of a feature film by Stuart Hepburn, 7 March 1996, typescript, 15, 11 pp; Sketches of a lamb, with manuscript captions, by George Wyllie, undated, 4 pp; Article on Sean Connery, 'The Herald' Magazine, 8 March 2003, press cutting.