Donated collections

Scope and Content

These records concern the donation of Edwin Morgan's papers to the University of Glasgow Library Special Collections and his collection of artworks to the Hunterian Art Gallery. The first accession received by Special Collections was purchased from EM in December 1980, the year that EM retired. It included 2 box files of draft ms poems (1936-1980) and 16 scrapbooks. In January 1988 EM started making regular small donations of his papers, this continued until 1996 when he wrote to say that his accountant had advised him that he must keep his records for 5 years. The donations started again in 2000 and the documentation records them up until 2002. This file includes correspondence; press cutting and signed receipts of accessions. In a folder titled 'Hunterian Pictures' EM kept all the documentation regarding his gift of 70 works of art to the Hunterian Art Gallery in 2004. Includes: press cuttings; numerous dated lists of paintings/works; correspondence; five 10x8 B&W prints; and art gallery catalogue printouts.

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Other Finding Aids

A detailed catalogue is available at University of Glasgow Collections

Related Material

See also MS Morgan DW/5 for information on material donated to the Mitchell Library

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