The Lilly Library is the rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library of the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. Its collections represent a diversity of subjects, including literature; children’s literature; history; folklore; science; radio, film and television; book collecting and bookselling; journalism; and translation.
Finlay mss. III, ca. 1966, consist of "The Collected Coaltown of Callange Tri-Kai," hand-typed by Finlay, in an edition of three of which this is number two.
The Finlay mss. II, 1965-1973, consists of correspondence and writings of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1925-2006, poet of Stonypath, Dunsyre, Lanark, Scotland.
The Whistler mss., 1963-1967, 1973, consist of correspondence of the British poet Sir (Alan Charles) Laurence Whistler with Jean Frampton, the typist of his memoir The Initials in the Heart (1964) and other works.
The Cruickshank mss., 1962-1968, consists of the letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1925-2006, poet, and his wife, Susan Finlay, 1943- , to Helen Burness Cruickshank, 1896-1975, poet of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Porter, P. mss., 1960-1966, consist of poetry by Peter Porter, 1929-2010, poet, and a letter from Nicholas Maw, 1903- , composer, to Peter Porter, June 20, 1966.