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Funding bids, correspondence, workshop and project notes, sketches, leaflets, press releases. Manuscript notes and typescripts.

Contents: Argyll and Bute’s ‘Vital Sparks’, June 2000. 2 pp (2 copies); Seven ‘Vital Sparks’, September 1999. 2 pp; The Monarch of Auchmountain Glen (incomplete), [1999-2000?]; The Inverclyde Crystal, July 1999. 2 pp; ‘The Macmillan Bikes’ and ‘An Assembly of Scarecrows’ at Finlaystone in Langbank, 1997. 2 pp; Just in Case [Safety Pin], 1996. 12 pp; A New Broom for the Northern Quarter, Manchester. Invitation card 7 June [19 ]; Launching ‘The Launch’, Govan Fair, 1999: press release; The ‘Whinhill Witness’, [1998]; Forget-me-Knots: proposal and sketch, 1997. 4 pp; The City of Edinburgh declares its Attachment to Commonwealth 97; A Voyage round a Safety-Pin, Just in Case and Forget-me-Knot, [1997]; The Bosun’s Pipe, with list of ships’ names, 1998; The Pompey Spire, 1996. MS note; Thirty-two Spires, 1991. 3 pp, also version dated January 1994. 4 pp, and Update of synopsis, April 1994; Sox across the Sea: a Scul?tural Letter to America, November 1995. 3 pp; The Quarry Brae Ideal Home Show, [19 ]; Hiroshima: manuscript notes with sketch, [1995?]. 3 pp; Boxed Spire: manuscript notes with photograph, September 1994. 2 pp; Advert for ‘Flight into Europe’ workshop event, Portsmouth, 1994 – booklet; Seven Spires on Lewis, November 1988. 3 pp; The Alternative Christmas, 1995: fax from Demarco European Art Foundation; Stromness Academy project: letter and photocopies of work from children’s surrealist project, May 2004. 18 pp; Straw Locomotive: a sculpture by George Wyllie: site reading: British art in public spaces, by Bridget Green? [19 ]. 4 pp; Circus Gold, 1988; Exhibition following from Milan Triennale, December 1992: notes (2 pp) and letter from Gillespies, Glasgow, September-December 1992; Dear Green Helicopter, 1990; Speug [Sparrow], [1991]; Islay and Jura Spiral Project: leaflets, manuscript and typescript notes (6 pp), press release, photocopy of published text on traditional dyeing methods, 1992-1993; The Seven Fishbones of Wisdom, with sketches, February 1995. 2 pp; Strathclyde Regional Council, Department of Education, Glasgow Division, Visit of Berlin students to Glasgow: programme, June 1989; For the Bicentenary, University of Strathcyde, 1996; When the Stanes come Marching in [March of the Standing Stones]: press release, correspondence, sketches, manuscript and typescript notes (6 pp), 1985; A Church for an Invented God who was there all the time, and, The Rock Trap, 1982. 2 pp; Temple for a Tree, Edinburgh Festival, 1992; Fearful Symmetry, October 1994; ‘Glasgow Style’ goes to Amsterdam, October 1987. 2 pp; Service of thanksgiving and dedication, St John’s Kirk, Perth, 22 May 1994: order of service and notes for readings; Arrivals and Sailings... the Funnels are coming! April 1988. 3 pp; The May-Day May-Day Parade, July 1987; Glasgow Speug in Danger, 1991; McPherson Drive Sports-Aid sponsored run, May 1986; Glasgow’s ‘Condom Tower’ sketch, 1992; The Truce Goose: manuscript and typescript notes, [19 ]. 2 pp; Storm, 1995; Vigorous Resuscitation, April 1994 [2 cards covered in aluminium foil]; The Harris Tweed Drifter, December 1992.

Design notes and sketches, cv, lists of expenses.

Contents include: Scul?ture jubilee, 1991; A Day down a Gold Mine: the book, 1987; A Machine for the Equal Distribution of Wealth – sketch and assembly notes; A Day down a Gold Mine: performance at Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, August 1985; Robinson Crusoe nearly slept here, with sketch of palm tree; George Wyllie’s thoughts on visiting Hiroshima; The Beuys Spire site on Rannoch Moor; Sketch and notes on Serpentine Gardens installation; Holyrood; McPherson Drive ‘Sports-Aid’ sponsored run, 1986.

T-WYL/7/6/1: Two folders containing design notes, funding bid to TSWA 3D [Television South West and South West Arts], correspondence, sketches, news items and texts of speech. Includes photograph of real locomotive being transported from Springburn to Glasgow Docks, [1950s?]: black and white; 195 mm (h) x 240 mm (w), mounted on card.

T-WYL/7/6/2: Straw locomotive: engine plate, 1 plaque: brass effect; 145 mm (h) x 195 mm (w),
Inscribed ‘Born 4th May 1987, died 22nd June 1987. “Sadly missed”’.

Design notes, drawings, funding bid, invoices, correspondence, press releases and cuttings, Clydeport maps and documents, tide tables, photographs, fabric samples, arrangements for launch by Lady Naomi Mitchison on 6 May 1989, Paper Boat letterheaded paper.

File 1. Funding bid etc., 1989.
File 2. Fabric samples, Clydeport documents, 1989.
File 3. Drawings etc., 1989.
File 4. Launch, tide tables, leaflet on Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, 1989.
File 5. Liverpool, including wallet of 21 colour photographs 110 mm (h) x 150 mm (w), & 8 more annotated colour photographs, 1989.
File 6. London, 1989.
File 7. New York, including invoices, street maps, tourist leaflets and 3 colour photographs of New York, 250mm (h) x 200 mm (w), 1990.
File 8. Antwerp, 1990.
File 9. Worldwide, including sketch entitled ‘Worldwide cruising’, press cutting about the liner, Queen Mary on the river Clyde, and miscellaneous notes, including Glasgow launch of the Paper Boat.

Handwritten text and water colour sketches to accompany Paper Boat sculpture project. Includes booklet (28 pp.) plus draft version in loose sheets (29 pp.) plus photocopy with additional original sheets, in loose sheets (32 pp.). Small variants in text and composition over the different copies.

Handwritten, with water colour sketches.

Sketches, correspondence, 9 colour photographs, various sizes, documents relating to Inverclyde Arts Foundation, tourist leaflets and photocopies from published histories of the area.

Correspondence and documents, books, press cuttings and articles, brochures.

Contents include: Correspondence with Elspeth King, Director, Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, February-April 1997 re purchase of ‘Breaking the Habit’, with uncashed cheque; HMS Argonaut reunion press cutting; Title page of ‘Improvising and arranging for the modern accordianist’ by J H Sedlon, Book 2. London: Scarth, [19 ] (Photocopy); George Wyllie’s Commission in HM Customs and Excise, 28 April 1948 (photocopy); Children’s book in Greek, 1981; ‘New ukelele method’, by J Mace Wolff. Chicago: Cole, [19 ], with letter from Lorna ..., Dunoon, undated; Paper aeroplane; Faxed copy of ‘Harlem Nocturne’, 1994; Marine insurance policy: cargo and freight, Phoenix, Greek General Insurance Co. SA, Athens, 13 September 1975; Blank application form for Official Travel Document of World Government, issued by World Service Authority, Basle, Switzerland, undated, 2 pp; Advert for Hare Krishna Festival at Bellshill Community Centre, 25 April 1993; Concert programme, unknown place and date (photocopy); Certificate: George Wyllie sworn in as Deputy Sheriff of Calton Creek, signed by Lobey Dosser [cartoon character in Glasgow newspaper], undated; Greek language newspaper, 1981; Letter from St Albans Organ Museum re recordings, 31 October 1977, 2 pp; Holyrood postcards etc, c 1979; Advertisement for Paris International Boat Show, 3-13 December 1993; Instructions to build ‘Simpleton Too’, a 7 ft prawn dinghy, reproduced from ‘Yachts and yachting’ (poor condition); Press cutting on Roedean School sports; Preliminary interior scheme for living/ dining, MS notes and sketches for Wyllie’s home in Gourock, 3 pp; Flying aces [short story], July 1937; Take the children, by Dorothy N King. New York: Morrow, 1945, 26 pp [children’s picture book]; Brochure on Royston Road parks, Royston Road Project, 2002, 79 pp, with letter from Ruth Gillett, Glasgow.

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

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.

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.

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.

Folder entitled 'Press: 68/89'.