Iain Fraser Grigor Papers
Iain Fraser Grigor is a prolific writer and researcher . His non-fiction works include: Highland resistance : the radical tradition in the Scottish north (2000), Mightier than a lord : the Highland crofters’ struggle for the land(1979) and A Nation in Want of a Grievance (2011).
1. Nineteen large format bound volumes, comprising around 1500 pages and 5000 items. These papers consist of a collection of documentary material on the general theme of the integrity, survival and development of an indigenous culture in the Scottish Highland and Islands. They consist in general of cuts from the Scottish, and in particular the Highland weekly, press; but also include cuts from the UK press, personal letters, press releases, photographic sources and photographs, reviews, broadcast listings, handbills, advertisements, cartoons, published letters, broadcast transcripts and short biographies. They constitute a scrapbook history of the Highlands and Islands in the closing decades of the 20th century.
Attention is focussed mainly on crofting, Gaelic and the land question; and also, land use, land ownership, land trading, landlord and tenant relations and disputes, the operation of the Game Laws, Gaelic journalism, education and broadcasting. Highlights include material on the Knoydart land raid (including transcripts of sound tape interviews with raiders and others), and the popular acquisition of Eigg in the 1990s.
The first seven volumes in the series are arranged on a classified subject basis; the remainder on a chronological basis, the entries on a weekly basis, and the volumes on an annual basis.
2. Final draft typescript, and publishers proof copy, of the book Highland Resistance: the radical tradition in the Scottish north (Edinburgh, 2000). Loose in each case.
3. Manuscript draft of Mightier than a Lord (Stornoway, 1979). Four bound volumes (ledgers) and one volume ringbound.
4. Napier Commission, evidence and report. Full set. Original. Very poor condition. Originally owned by Malcolm MacMillan, MP, and with annotations presumed to be his.
5. Hildegart Collection. Books, pamphlets, press cuts, bibliographies, correspondence concerning Hildegart, a leading feminist writer in thirties Spain who was shot dead by her mother. Mainly in Spanish, but with some of it in English translation. A subject on which almost nothing has ever appeared in English. Papers Include:
Rosa Cal : A Mi No Me Doblega Nadie Aurora Rodríguez, su vida y su obra, 1991 (with some correspondence with the author)
Guillermo Rendueles Olmedo: El Manuscrito Encontrado en Ciempozuelos (of recent date) (partly in synoptic translation) (author was professor of psychopatholgy at Oviedo)
Hildegart La Virgen Roja, Joan Llarch, 1979
Hildegart, Sexo y Amor, 1931 (photocopy from Yale Medical Library)
Rosa Montero, Historias y Mujeres, 1995, (chapter on Hildegart and Aurora)
6. Duncan Stewart materials. Stewart was physician to le roi Christophe, and professor of anatomy at the Royal College as well as marechal de camp of the Royal Haitian Medical Corps. A small collection of e mail printouts and a short bibliography.
7. Miscellaneous. Master¹s thesis, in French, by Beatrice Laout, on the transformation of Charles William’s novel, The Long Saturday Night, to Francois Truffaut¹s film Vivement Dimanche! Plus a copy of the novel.
