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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

Correspondence, articles and press cuttings on David Hume, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment.

Contents include: 'Let there be light': Jim Gilchrist on a new Enlightenment, 'Scotsman', 27 February 1999, p 13; 'Her man in Scotland': the Adam Smith Institute, by Ian Bell, 'Observer Scotland', 5 February 1989, p 7; Correspondence with Hyundai Securities (Europe) Ltd re research on Adam Smith, November 1997, 4 pp; Certified copy of the Last Will and Testament of David Hume Esq, 15 April 1776, 5 pp (Photocopy of printed version); Letter from Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy to William Strahan, 9 November 1776, 7 pp, on David Hume (Photocopy of printed version); Press cuttings on Adam Smith, from 'Scotsman', 19 May 1988, Herald, 10 February & 31 July 1989, & 14 July 1990, and 'Independent on Sunday', 13 March 1994; Faxed information from Kenny Munro on Thomas Muir of Huntershill, 7 November 1998; Trafalgar House Offshore Fabrications Ltd Adam Smith Lecture by Donald MacKay, with Biographical notes on Donald Iain MacKay, [c 1993], 8 pp (Photocopy); Review of ‘Crisis of the democratic intellect’, by George Davie, by Murdo Macdonald, 'University of Edinburgh Bulletin', 1980?; 'Adam Ferguson and the idea of community', by Duncan Forbes, undated, 2 pp.

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.

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

Project notes, sketches, correspondence, notes of meetings, colour and black and white photographs, various sizes, press cuttings, brochure on Clyde Waterfront Regeneration Strategy, July 2003, leaflet on Waterbus services, draft Crystal Ship Feasibility Study by Mott MacDonald, August 2003 and incomplete version, also synopsis, notes and photographs for Crystal Ship film.

Proposals, design notes, sketches, colour photographs, press cutting, invoices, street plan.

Sketches, exhibition notes, correspondence, colour and black and white photographs of various sizes, poster, postcard, press cuttings, article about Neil Munro.

Files on miscellaneous topics, activities and inspirations. Includes correspondence, press cuttings, articles, brochures, handwritten notes, flyers, invitations, leaflets, poems, sketches and programmes. The titles of the files are those assigned by Wyllie.

The MacGillivray Walk, May 25-August 29, 1996 [the erection of 7 spires at Fochabers, Forres, Foyers, Beauly, Kinlochewe, Poolewe and Harris, to commemorate a journey from Aberdeen to Harris by William MacGillivray in 1817]. Includes notes, transcripts from MacGillivray’s diary, and 25 colour photographs, various sizes.

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.

Series of project files relating to the 'Paper Boat'.

Designs and notes.

Typescripts, sketches, correspondence, and press releases.

Contents include: Air and Stone, 1999; The Bosun’s Pipe, Portsmouth exhibition, 1996; i on the Truth of Stone, 1995; Paper Boat, 1995; Equilibrium – ‘an’ a’ that’, 1996; Burd witnessing a Bicycle Accident; Boxed Spire; Thoughts on Hiroshima, 1986; George Wyllie’s Americana, 1986; Christmas Day down a Gold Mine, 1985; Notes on George Wyllie by George Melly; Scul?ture, 1981; The Paper Boat in New York, 1990; Pittenweem Festival, 1988; Scul?ture at Sea, 1987; Note on George Wyllie exhibition by Debbie Butler; Translations of Irish place names; Sketch and assembly notes on Bennie Railplane, 1995; Sketches and notes on sculptures for Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, 1995; Notes for exhibition at Hendersons Gallery, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 1980.