Papers of Iain Hamilton built around his work on Arthur Koestler

The collection is composed of the following:

Boxes 1-11:

• Drafts, copies of drafts, annotated drafts, and copy cut and copy edited material

Box 12:

• News cuttings on the deaths of the Koestlers
• Discarded folios

Box 13:

• Correspondence with Macmillan, publisher, 1981-1982
• Correspondence with publishers, 1979-1982
• Artwork for book
• Transcriptions
• Copies of letters: Cynthia's and Mamaine's, 1945-1955
• Academic correspondence

Box 14:

• Notes for talks; Montage
• Correspondence / Promotion, 1970s-1980s
• Correspondence, 1974-1982
• Reviews / Correspondence, 1970s-1980s
• Unsorted material
• Reviews, 1982 / Encountering Koestler / Correspondence
• Essay

Box 15:

• Reviews of Koestler's works / Cuttings, 1970s
• Reviews / Cuttings, 1950s
• Material on capital punishment
• Cuttings on various themes, 1960s-1980s
• Correspondence - Responses to Hamilton letter, 1970s

Box 16:

• Reviews, 1980s
• Correspondence, 1980s-1990s
• Copies of letters from E. M. Forster, Mann, Huxley and others, 1940s
• Copy for notes
• Outline / Synopses

Iain Hamilton (1920-1986) was a British journalist, author and poet. Between 1962-64 he was the editor of The Spectator and for five years he was Editorial Director of the Hutchinson group of publishing companies. The most widely known of his literary works is his biography of Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) the writer, titled Koestler - a biographypublished by Secker & Warburg, London, in 1982. Other books by Iain Hamilton include: Spectrum: a Spectator miscellany (1956), edited with Ian Gilmour; Scotland the Brave (1957); Half a Highlander: An Autobiography of a Scottish Youth (1958); The Foster Gang (1966), with Henry John May; Embarkation for Cythera (1974); and, The Kerry Kyle (1980).

Generally open for consultation to bona fide researchers, but please contact repository for details in advance.

Material acquired by donation in July 2013. Accession no: E2013.48

Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie 01 August 2013

Also held within Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library is 'The Koestler Archive & Other Papers Relating to Arthur Koestler', Coll-146.