Lot 157

Edinburgh University - The Jabberwock - Hugh MacDiarmid - [i.e Grieve, Christopher Murray]

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 28 January 2015 at 11:00 GMT

£6,875

Description

An interesting archive of The Edinburgh University literary periodical, The Jabberwock, comprising

1) Autograph manuscript by Hugh MacDiarmid: The significance of Sydney Goodsir Smith, 16 pages, folio

2) Autograph manuscript by Hugh MacDiarmid: The Scottish Renaissance; the next Step. 10 pages, folio

3) Autograph manuscript by Hugh MacDiarmid: R.B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936): 9 pages, folio

4) 7 Autograph letters (6 with envelope) signed from Hugh MacDiarmid, signed C.M. Grieve, to Ian Holroyd, editor of The Jabberwock, chiefly discussing contributions to the magazine

5) Correspondence to Ian Holroyd, editor of The Jabberwock, including letters from Edith Sitwell, Sean O'Casey, Compton Mackenzie, Edwin Muir, Peter Pears, Martin Gray, Jonathan Mills, &c.

6) Typed manuscript contribution by Compton Mackenzie, signed, 2 pages, folio

7) Printed and Manuscript ephemera relating to The Jabberwock, including minutes of meetings of the E.U. Jabberwock committee 1951-53, manuscript and typed poems, stories and book reviews contributed to issues of The Jabberwock, printed advertising broadsides, printed ephemera relating to The Scottish Renaissance, typed lists of Jabberwock shop sales

8) Three typescript poems by Robert Garioch, two signed, one with Latin verses in autograph [The Hierodules, A wee Nicht-Music, Swan-Sang], with slight variants from printed versions

9) Three typescript poems by Alan Riddell, with autograph corrections

10) Typescript poem by Sydney Goodsir Smith [The World's Winter]

11) Four typescript poems signed by Martin Gray, and autograph letter signed

12) Two typescript poems by Bruce Etherington, and two, signed, by Jonathan Mills