Rather I have tried to show how the lives of Evans and Sontag were interwoven closely with their times. 'It has not been my intention to write a wild-Western thriller or a story suitable for a pulp magazine. The edges of the text block have some ground-in spots of dirt. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. B&W Illustrations This is the first state of the first printing with the word 'fact' repeated on lines 17 and 18 of page 37. The Sydney Goodsir Smith Papers are an invaluable resource not only for Smith scholars but also for any researcher with an interest in the development of 20th-century Scottish verse, drama, and fiction, or in relations between some of Scotland's major writers.Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing Hse. Finally, miscellaneous material (in E2005.27) includes drawings by Smith, musical settings of his poems, press cuttings, obituaries, and some financial papers. There are letters from writers such as Hugh MacDiarmid and Norman MacCaig (who encloses a comic poem inspired by a drinking session with Smith) and important correspondence relating to Smith’s co-editorship of Robert Burns's The Merry Muses of Caledonia. Smith the playwright is strongly represented by manuscripts, typescripts, or proofs of the plays Ishmael, or Ye Gods and Little Bitches, The Rout of Spring, The Wallace, The Stick-Up, The Mask of Minos, and The Prince of Skye. There is a manuscript of Smith’s novel Carotid Cornucopius with a typescript of the preface by Hugh MacDiarmid.

There are notebooks containing drafts of poems for the period 1932-46, as well as manuscripts or typescripts of individual poems. The Papers include working materials for the verse collections The Wanderer and Other Poems, Under the Eildon Tree, and So Late into the Night, and for the long poems The Vision of the Prodigal Son and Kynd Kittock’s Land. The Sydney Goodsir Smith Papers (Coll-497) include working materials for Smith's most important poetic and dramatic works, along with letters from other major figures of the Scottish Literary Renaissance.

Prodigal Sons by Wallace Smith