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The Windows of Marlborough, June 1988, 19 colour transparencies; Spires and Garden Festival, May-September 1988, 73 colour transparencies and August 1989, 3 colour transparencies; Miscellaneous at Garden Festival, 1988, 14 colour transparencies; SSA 1988 [Society of Scottish Artists exhibition], November 1988, 18 colour transparencies; SSA 1989 (Demarco’s), November 1989, 9 colour transparencies; Early work, 1960s-1970s, 29 colour transparencies; Own work, 1972-1983, 71 colour transparencies; Exhibitions (general views), 1972-1979, 16 colour transparencies; Gallery exhibits, miscellaneous, 1979-1998, 15 colour transparencies.

Correspondence and documents, tourist leaflets, postcards, press cuttings, conference programme, map and song book.

Contents include: manuscript document on Tom Mix; programme for 10th International Sculpture Conference, May-June 1978; Abington Art Center Sculpture Garden leaflets; Worcester Art Museum guides, 1983 and calendars, 1993 and 1995; Historical map of the USA; ‘Nights on the Range’ songbook.

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.

Typescript.

'Nature pages' contain pressed leaves, preserved butterflies and a moth.

Photographs by George Young, Gourock; Glasgow Herald; and other photographers.

With draft contents list.

Poster for This is Scul?ture at MacRobert Art Gallery, University of Stirling, 10-26 May [1977].

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.

In ‘Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards: 2000 retrospective’. Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, August 2003, pp 64-69.

Photographs of George Wyllie and his sculptures including the Holyrood sign at Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, 'Life Cycle', 'The Great European Cuckoo Clock', 'A Bumper Dragon' and 'A Day Down A Gold Mine'.

Berlin Burd, August, October, December 1988, 59 colour transparencies; Berlin Burd at the Zoo, December 1988, 24 colour transparencies; Circus Gold (Berlin), September 1988, 44 colour transparencies; Berlin Burd (later), September 1988, 5 colour transparencies; Berlin Burd, June 1993, 3 colour transparencies.

Poster for Scul?ture in Motion at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 22 August-15 September 1983.

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'.