Literary MSS, notebooks, correspondence with family and friends, contracts, tributes and other miscellaneous material, including the correspondence of his second wife Valda Trevlyn. The note books, over 60 in number, contain drafts of poems and articles, literary notes and miscellaneous jottings and are of considerable value for the study of MacDiarmids poetical composition and method of working. 2,000 of the grant came from the Philip Larkin fund
