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A small quantity of typed and holograph contracts, correspondence and associated materials, between and concerning Bruce Marshall, his publisher, and other interested parties, and relating to four of his novels. Various sizes and dates, the whole housed in four manila folders. Some edgewear and toning consistent with the material's use and age, but a very well preserved collection..

The prolific novelist Bruce Marshall [1899-1987], perhaps now best known for his novel Father Malachy's Miracle [1931], enjoyed a literary career spanning seventy years. Born in Edinburgh, Marshall trained as an accountant, but by the age of nineteen was already a published author. He served in both wars, and in World War Two was a liaison officer with the French Resistance. Although he lived as an expatriate for most of his life much of his writing speaks to his enduring love for Scotland in general and Edinburgh in particular. Both The World, The Flesh and Father Smith [1945] and The Black Oxen [1972] are set in Scotland -- and Father Malachy's Miracle recreates much of Edinburgh's atmosphere and topography of the 1930s. The novel's disreputable dance hall, The Garden of Eden, is closely modelled on The Blue Lagoon, at that time a similarly disreputable establishment located in Picardy Place, and the book's primary location, the Church of St. Margaret, is Edinburgh's Cathedral Church of St. Mary, located at the top of Leith Walk.

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