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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 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 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.

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 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.

Research for and drafts of two published works by Ludovic Kennedy - 'Ten Rillington Place' (published 1961) and 'The Trial of Stephen Ward' (published 1964) - and two unpublished works - 'Lieutenant' and 'Saying Goodbye to Big Daddy’.

Pamphlets from various writers' workshops across Scotland in the 1980s, many of which were published by the Workers' Educational Association (WEA). Colin Kirkwood was employed by the WEA South-East Scotland District between 1976 and 1986, initially as Tutor Organiser and then as District Secretary.

Published by the Workers' Educational Association.

Papers on World Trade Organization’s upholding of ban of asbestos by France.

• a little correspondence and papers 1998-2002, covering the asbestos legacy of the World Trade Center and the WTO ruling that the French government's ban on asbestos is justified
• unmarked copy of World Trade Organisation (18 September 2000) ‘European communities – measures affecting asbestos and asbestos-containing products – report of the panel – addendum’
• partially annotated copy of World Health Organisation (18 September 2000) ‘European communities – measures affecting asbestos and asbestos-containing products – report of the panel’
• World Trade Organisation (1998) ‘Environmental health criteria for chrysotile asbestos’ (EHC 203: Chrysotile Asbestos)

Papers relating to the World symposium on asbestos, May 1982. Includes

• copy of 'Asbestos: control or ban? Synthesis of the world symposium on asbestos' (Canadian Asbestos Information Centre, May 1984)
• conference program
• copies of papers by Jean Bignon, Andrew M Pye, John C Wagner, Peter W Preuss, William J Hunter, Philip E Enterline, Malcom Ross and William J Simpson
• leaflets and booklets by Geological Survey, Canada; the Government of Quebec; La Société Minéralogique de la Région de l'Amiante

Printed.

Handwritten answer script for a Royal Technical College class examination in Workshop Organization and Management held on 22 December 1931. Marked by the examiner.

Pamphlet on academic collaboration between the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. Contains list of academic collaborative projects.