Humphrey, Georges Sorel, Prophet without Honor (Cambridge, Mass., 1951), p. 192.

21Bury, p. 118. Mitchell’s copy bears the stamp of Central Education School, Zeitoun, Cairo no. 49.

22Now in the editor’s possession.

23From ‘Literary Lights’, ScS, p. 205. For further discussion see ‘The Grassic Gibbon Style’ in eds. J. Schwend and H. W. Drescher, Studies in Scottish Fiction: Twentieth Century (Scottish Studies no. 10) (Frankfurt and Bern, Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 271–87.

24MS Edinburgh University Library. To Helen B. Cruickshank, 13 December 1960.

25Rhea Mitchell to C. M. Grieve, MS Edinburgh University Library. 23 February 1937.

26Malcolm p. 120.

27Young p. 73.

28M. Lindsay, History of Scottish Literature (London, 1977), p. 415.

29D. Gifford, Neil M. Gunn and Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Edinburgh, 1983), p. 49.

30F. R. Hart, The Scottish Novel, A Critical Survey (London, 1978), p. 231.

31R. Watson, The Literature of Scotland (London, 1984), p. 386.

32C.