£625
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 644
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
6 manuscript pp. on 3 leaves, each 17.5 x 23cm, dated 25-9-41, signed 'Somhairle', addressed to Douglas [Young], discussing mutual acquaintances including Sydney Goodsir Smith and Hugh MacDiarmid ("...I am interested in your new opinion of Sydney. I was never quite sure myself. I have always liked him immensely and like him better as I know him better. He does have much of the Toller in him potentially but also a fair amount of what would be called the 'bourgeois-decedent' element. So has Grieve for the matter of that."), his own life, as he cites family concerns preventing him from participating in the Spanish Civil War, and giving feedback to Young on one of his translations from Gaelic to English; MacLean also expresses his worries relating to the war