Inventory Dep.209 Neil M Gunn LL.D - National Library of Scotland

The papers of Neil M Gunn LL.D.
Deposited, 1973.
BOX 1
1. Seven notebooks containing drafts of letters, articles and addresses ca. 1953-1970.
2. Notebook comprising a diary for July-September 1939, with comments on current
events.
3. Notebook comprising (at one end) a diary for October 21 st - 27 th 1931, and (at the
other end), notes and quotations from books read.
4. Notebook containing (at one end) notes on the British Herring Fishing Company,
Gaelic proverbs, a bibliography of the North-east coast, and (at the other end)
notes and quotations from books read.
5. Five notebooks containing notes and quotations from books read.
6. Notebook containing notes on the Gaelic language and passages in Gaelic.
7. Notebook containing notes on the Isle of Eigg, Lismore, Iona, St Columba, and
also on geology.
8. Notebook containing notes on the history of whisky distilling.
9. Two notebooks, 1939, containing corrected manuscript drafts of “To the West”,
“Across the Minch”, “In Stornoway”, “On Bernera” and “To the Flannan Isles”.
10. Address Book.
11. Notes and leaflets relating to a journey in Denmark.
12. Two notebooks, one 1937, containing manuscript notes and drafts for “Off in a
Boat”, and the other containing excerpts from the Log Book of the “Maggie” of
Wick, (1873).
BOX 2
1. Typescript of “The Atom of Delight”.
2. Two copies of corrected page-proofs of “The Atom of Delight”.
BOX 3