File 1 - 'M[iscellaneous] mementos'

1 ring binder

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.

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