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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.

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.

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].

Catalogue introductions by George Wyllie. Manuscript and typed documents.

Contents include: 'Directions in scul?ture', 1983, manuscript notes, 6 pp; Interlude, with manuscript notes for exhibition; 'Scul?ture': St Andrews Festival, 1983; 'Scul?ture', for London exhibition, April 1979; 'Scul?ture': Collins Exhibition Hall [University of Strathclyde], January 1981; Introduction for unknown exhibition; Blake’s Bike, [19 ]; 'All my own work: a nearly missed review', 'Stirling Gallery news', no 4, June-August 1982 (offprint); 'Scul?ture': exhibition in Hendersons Gallery, Edinburgh, 1978, with catalogue, 4 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

Brief quotations from various sources, some handwritten, also longer extracts from printed works.

Subjects include: Plato; Tim Beaumont’s gleanings, 2002; Shamanism; Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Aristotle; Reconquest of Caithness by Earl Harald; The Viking gene etc.

Correspondence, sketches, press cuttings and articles, leaflets of tourist and general interest.

Contents include: The nature of the Lordship [of the Isles], source and date unknown, 2pp (photocopy), with Sketch of ‘The Stones of Scotland’, May 2000; The strange case of Richard Demarco, by Giles Sutherland, 'Etudes Ecossaises', no 6, [19 ], pp 47-56 (photocopy); Extract on Joseph Beuys, source and date unknown; The biology of art, 'Economist', 3 April 1999, pp 93-95; A tragic treasure: sinking of the [ship] Akka in 1956, 'Scotsman', 3 March 2001; Leaflet on Cairngorm reindeer herd, August 1979, 4 pp; Glasgow Eastern Necropolis Heritage Trail, [19 ], 9 pp (Photocopy); Orwell’s England, National Theatre, [19 ], 11 pp; Addiction, by John Collee, 'Observer', [19 ], p 54; Trees for towns: extract, source and date unknown, 4 pp; 'Sacred trees in Scottish folklore', part 1, by Tess Darwin, 'Reforesting Scotland', no 10, Spring 1994, pp 8-10, with, 'Hisøy: a forest on the edge', by Brendan Hill, pp 23-26, and, 'The radical rowan': newsletter for members of Reforesting Scotland, no 6, March 1994, 4 pp; Leaflet on British hallmarks, Birmingham, Assay Office, [19 ], 12 pp; 'Vikings to blame for Scottish national dish', [19 ]; Letter from Ian Yeomans, London, 11 February 1982, endorsed ‘ Refers to HMS Edinburgh’; Eric Hoffer: the true believer [on Bartlesville Community Center, Oklahoma, USA], [19 ], 6 pp; Will of John Anderson, founding Anderson’s University, 7 May 1795, University of Strathclyde, [1996], 2 pp; MS notes of funnel colours of shipping companies trading to the Port of Glasgow up to around 1960; Extract from ‘The islands of Scotland’ by MacDiarmid, c 1939, 3 pp (Poor quality photocopy); Letter from Springburn Academy, Glasgow seeking support for Technology Exchange Visit to Washington DC in June 1997, 4 pp; UFA Fabrik Berlin, 2 pp, with leaflet on Circus Festival [in German], c 1994, 8 pp; Letter from Mary Aitkenhead, Oldham to 'Scots Magazine', October 1993, p 434, suggesting similarities between Scots and Greek words; Poster on history of the Stock Exchange, London, [19 ]; Keepers of the flame, by Mark Singer, 'New Yorker', 3 June 1991, pp 89-103 [on Tom Mix]; Fax from Neil Baxter Associates, Edinburgh on Latin phrases, 13 August 1996; Poster on the George Bennie railplane, [19 ]; Printed list of second hand booksellers in Glasgow and Edinburgh, [19 ], 2 pp; Six days in Ancient China through the eyes of a 19 year old girl travelling alone, by Emma ...., August-September 1998, with sketches of terracotta warriors, 15 pp; 'A tax on economic pollution', by Liam McDougall, 'Big Issue in Scotland', 20-26 April 2000, pp 22-23; Guru without credit, by Erlend Clouston, 'Sunday Times', 28 November 1999 [on Clifford Douglas and theory of social credit] (photocopy); Roman numerals [19 ]; Notes on calligraphy, by Barbara Bundy, 1984, 8 pp; 'Wilderness and the Wes't, by T H Watkins, unknown source and date, pp 324-329 [on conservation in USA], endorsed ‘Beuys was in tune with this stuff’; 'Ten thousand artists, not one master', by Satish Kumar, in 'Conversations before the end of time', by Suzi Gablik, Thames & Hudson, 1997, pp 133-154 (photocopy), endorsed ‘George, a synergic discussion!? Kenny’; Collection of articles from 'Scots Magazine'; Photograph of Demarco and colleagues in Edinburgh, [19 ]; A parbuckle: definition and sketches, [19 ]; Strategy Get Arts, Edinburgh International Festival 1970, by Cordelia Oliver, 3 pp; Cartouche from Laurie’s New chart of the Windward Passages and Bahama Islands ... by John Purdy, London, Holmes, Laurie, 1864; Cartoons re Inuit, [19 ], 2 pp; Leaflet on Eden Project, [19 ]; 'A garden to dye for', by Nick Ibbotson, unknown source and date, pp 89-92 [on natural dyes]; Press cutting re SS Persia, unknown source and date; Press cutting on Chernobyl fallout, Herald, 4 March 2003; Machrihanish: end of a dream, by Tim Wander, 'Ham Radio Today', August 1987, pp 19-22, with, Notes on Fessenden of Machrihanish, 3 pp, and, Mackinnon of Balinakill, 4 pp, and, Post card from Donald Kelly, Muasdale, Argyll, 17 June 2001; Cart Blanche: minutes of meeting held on 22 January 2003 [refers to River Cart, Glasgow]; Letter from Northlands Festival, 11 October 2001, 6 pp; Joseph Kosuth recent works: exhibition flyer, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, September-October 1987; Press cutting on redevelopment of Greenock Rope Works, 'Greenock Telegraph', 8 February 2003; 'Footprints in the shifting sand', by Oona Strathern, 'Observer', 10 March 1991, p 69 [on Arthur Rimbaud in Ethiopia]; 'Foul deeds of desecration', by Bernard Levin, 'Times', 6 June 1988 [on a Maori head]; 'Why it is futile to try to cure the malaise in Ulster’s heart', by Patrick Reilly, 'Herald', 26 July 1999; 'Cybernetic paradise that has become hell of the rat race', by Pat Reilly, Herald, 31 January 2000; 'Malevolent vision of a hated war criminal', by Ian Bell, 'Scotsman', 27 December 1996 [on Radovan Karadzic]; Press cuttings on modern art, 2001-2002; Article on vegetarianism, by Anvar Khan, unknown source and date; Press cuttings on Jools Holland, 'Observer', 7 April 2002 and Tam Cowan, unknown source and date.

The titles of the files are those assigned by Wyllie.

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