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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

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.