Manuscripts of Scottish writers including Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, Catherine Carswell, Alison Cockburn, Gavin Douglas, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Drummond, and William Dunbar. Janet H. (Hinshaw) Caird (1913-1992)Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid PapersAngus Calder (1942-2008)Typescript Poem: Hamish Henderson ArchiveCorrespondence: Hamish Henderson ArchiveNorman Cameron (1905-1953)Secondary Materials: Tom Scott PapersAlexander Campbell (1764-1824)Self-Standing Materials‘Ode to Dugald Stewart’, 1806 (Dc.6.11, ff. 1-2)Materials in Other CollectionsPoetry: Laing CollectionTravel Writing: Laing CollectionCorrespondence: Laing CollectionAngus Peter Campbell (1952- )Correspondence: Hamish Henderson ArchiveDonald Campbell (1940-2019)Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Records of 'Scottish International Review'Secondary Materials: Hugh MacDiarmid PapersJohn Campbell (1708-1775)Self-Standing MaterialsMiscellaneous Papers, 21 categories of items (Dc.1.67)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Laing CollectionJohn Campbell (1766-1840)3 letters, 1 to Ralph Wardlaw, 1 to John Murray F.S.A., and 1 to an unidentified recipient, 1817-1834 (Gen. 863/3, f. 1, Gen. 1971/2/8; Gen. 1730/C/14)Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)Self-Standing MaterialsPoems: ‘The Dead Eagle’, ‘Highland Margaret’, and ‘Dora Gerard’, partly original, partly copies; part of a letter from Campbell to Mrs Helen D’Arcy Stewart containing his poems ‘Stanzas to Painting’ and ‘Hochenlinden, a fragment’ (1802); and a translation of Campbell's poem ‘Exile of Erin’ into German by Wenceslas von Purgstall (Dc.6.111)Letter, 22 February 1834, to Francis Jeffrey (Coll-1176)Letter [fragmentary] from Campbell, undated (Coll-1176)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Laing CollectionFinancial/Legal Papers: Laing CollectionCape ClubPoetry: Laing CollectionDavid Carey (1782-1824)Correspondence: Laing CollectionCargill, James (19th century)Poetry: Laing CollectionJane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866)2 letters to W. E. Forster(?), undated (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/69-70)Letter to Miss Lamont, undated (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/28)2 letters (1 of them fragmentary) to Eliza Miles, 20 December 1834 and 183- (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/80-81)Letter to CT Ramage, 23 November [1864] (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/22)2 letters to Charlotte Southam, 16 September 1858, and undated (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/19-20)Letter to Kate Sterling, undated (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/29)41 letters, 39 to Eliza Stoddart, and 2 to D. Aitken, 1816-1866, and undated (Dc.4.94)Letter to Mr Strachey, undated (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/33)5 letters to Mrs Warren, 1865 & undated, microfilm copies (Mic.M.135)Letter to Miss Wilson, undated (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/13)Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Welsh Carlyle (Dc.2.76/21)Letter from Anna Jameson to Jane Welsh Carlyle (Gen. 1733/120)Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)Self-Standing MaterialsDeed of Mortification to the Estate of Craigenputtock to the University of Edinburgh, [2 drafts], 1867 and undated (Dc.2.76/18; Strong Room Wall)Life of John Sterling [last two chapters], 185-?, revised proofs (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/30)Notes, 1 on Voltaire, 1 headed ‘Consider the issue’, [1870]-1871 (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/44, 47)11 letters, 1827-1841, and undated, to Rev. David Aitken, Eliza Stoddart, Samuel Aitken, and John Bradfute (Dc.4.94)Letter to Robert Browning, 1845 (Dc.4.94)Letter to Jane Welsh Carlyle (Dc.2.76/21)28 letters to various recipients, including Jane Welsh Carlyle [1 of them in the hand of J.A. Carlyle, 1819-71, and undated, with microfilm copies of related materials, including notes about the Earl of Bothwell (Mic.M.135)2 letters, 1 to his brother and 1 to Jane A. McIntyre, 1844-1848, photocopies (Phot.1142/1F & 2F)Letter to Peter Millar Cunningham, 4 December 1843 (Coll-1740)Letter to H. Grant, September 1835 (Coll-1848/20-0027)20 letters to J. Johnstone, 1817-1825 (Dc.4.94)2 letters to Professor Philip Kelland, 1865-1866, copies (Sen. Mins.(2)III, 67-68 & 131)6 letters to Cecil Chetwynd Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian and others, 1865-1869 (Dc.4.94)5 letters, 1842-1869, to recipients including Sir Charles Augustus Murray, Rev. F. Myers, J. W. Parker, with an autograph quotation, signed by Carlyle, 1873 (Gen. 1733)Letter from Carlyle to A. Robertson, 1868 (Dc.2.76/3)69 letters, 1820-1876, and undated, to various recipients (Gen. 1730/Carlyle)Letter from Barry Cornwall to Carlyle, 11 November 1867 (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/18)Photographs of Carlyle and his circle, 1857 and undated (Gen. 1730/Carlyle/ 31, 48); Phot.ill.115)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Margaret Duncan Campbell Collection, Laing CollectionEdinburgh University Rectorial Address: Records of the University of EdinburghSecondary Materials: Thomas Nelson ArchiveRobert Carruthers (1799-1878)Self-Standing MaterialsLetter to G. Bullen, 1857 (Gen. 1790, no. 57)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Laing CollectionCatherine Carswell (1879-1946)Self-Standing MaterialsCorrespondence concerning 'The Savage Pilgrimage' and J. Middleton Murry's libel writ (E88.135)Letter from J. Middleton Murry, 10 February 1933 (Coll-1470)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Hugh MacDiarmid PapersSecondary Materials: Helen Cruickshank Papers, Fred Urquhart PapersRobert Chambers (1802-1871)Self-Standing Materials2 letters, 1 to R. Christie and 1 to an unnamed geologist [Sir Charles Lyell?], 1839-1847 (Gen. 756, no. 79; Gen. 1999/1/2)Letter, probably to J. Ballantine, 1864 (Dc.4.101-103)4 letters, 1839-1861 (Gen. 1730/C/16-19)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Sir Archibald Geikie Papers, Laing Collection, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison CorrespondenceDouglas Cheape (1797-1861)Poetry: Laing CollectionCorrespondence: Laing CollectionJo Clifford (1951- )Correspondence: Hamish Henderson ArchiveJ. (Joseph) Storer Clouston (1870-1944)Correspondence: Charles Saroléa PapersSecondary Materials: Thomas Nelson ArchiveAlison Cockburn (ca. 1712-1794)Poetry: Laing CollectionCorrespondence: Laing CollectionHenry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (1779-1854)Correspondence: Laing CollectionW. D. (William Dixon) Cocker (1882-1970)Secondary Materials: Tom Scott PapersSamuel Colvil (fl. 1640-1680)Poetry: Laing CollectionRobert Colvill (d. 1788)Financial document: Laing CollectionStewart Conn (1936- )Correspondence: George Mackay Brown Papers, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Robert Nye PapersSecondary Materials: Records of 'Scottish International Review', Fred Urquhart PapersJoe Corrie (1894-1968)Manuscript and Typescript Songs: Hamish Henderson ArchiveCorrespondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Tom Scott PapersSecondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart PapersWilliam Craig, Lord Craig (1745 -1813)Self-Standing MaterialsFragment (Gen. 1730/C/11)Materials in Other CollectionsPoetry: Laing CollectionLouisa Matilda Crawford (ca. 1791-1857)Papers of Louisa Matilda CrawfordRobert Crawford (1959- )Correspondence: Hamish Henderson ArchiveS. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett (1859-1914)Self-Standing MaterialsLetter to J. M. Austin, 7 June 1906 (Gen. 1730/C/42)Letter to Mrs Kerr, 11 March, n.y. (Gen. 1730/C/4)Letter to Percy Lees, 22 April 1904 (E90.127)Letter to Mr Macniven, 12 January, n.y. (Gen. 1730/C/3)Letter to D. W. Mills (?), 19 March, n.y. (E91.4)Letter to Ashcroft Noble, 24 December 1894 (Gen. 1730/C/34)Letter to Frank Richards, [May 1900] (E90.126)2 letters to Rev. William Thomson, 18 October, 1 December 1913 (Gen. 1730/C/53-54)Letter to Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow, 9 January 1891 (E93.14)Letter to unknown correspondent, 3 February 1894 (CLX-A-1259)Letter to 'George', n.d., and postcard photograph of Crockett (Dc.4.102/12-13)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: William Kirk Dickson PapersSecondary Materials: Thomas Nelson Archive, Fred Urquhart PapersA. J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin (1896-1981)Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart PapersHelen Burness Cruickshank (1886-1975)See: Helen Cruickshank PapersAlexander Cunningham (1655–1730)Poetry: Laing CollectionAllan Cunningham (1784-1842)Self-Standing MaterialsPoems: 'Battle Song of Earl Douglas', ‘The Morning Song’, ‘Nith sent no minstrel’ (9 lines from ‘The Maid of Elvar’), and ‘Address to Nithsdale’ (Gen. 1730/Cunningham/8, 10, 15, 37)Sea Song ('A wet sheet and a flowing sea'), autograph poem (Coll-1848/18-0130)Letter to Rev. J. G. Brett, 25 August 1832 (Gen. 1733/50)3 letters, 1 of them to R. Montgomery and 1 of them to Charles Johnstone, 1834-1835 and undated (Dc.4.101-103)Letter to Thomas Pringle, 1832 (Dh.6.67/201)34 letters to various correspondents, 1823-1850, and undated (Gen. 1730/Cunningham)4 letters to various correspondents, 1826-1833, and undated (Coll-1889)Letter from Letitia Elizabeth Landon to Cunningham, 1829 (Gen. 1731/L/3)Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Cunningham, 24 December 1825 (Gen. 1732/S/27)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Ian R. Grant Collection, Laing Collection, Sir Walter Scott LettersJames Cunningham (18th century)Poetry: Laing CollectionReligious Writings: Laing CollectionR. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)Self-Standing MaterialsLetter to Elkin Mathews, 4 December 1917 (Gen. 1730/C/35)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Charles Saroléa PapersSecondary Materials: 'Jabberwock' Archive, Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart PapersCatherine Lucy Czerkawska (1950- )Correspondence: Hamish Henderson ArchiveDavid Daiches (1912-2005)Self-Standing MaterialsTS review of 'The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950' and 'The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse' for 'The Review of English Studies' (1973) (E87.97)Letters from Scottish writers, 1951-1979 (E92.46)Letters from British and American writers, 1952-1975 (E92.70)4 letters to Roger Sharrock, 1962-1978 (E93.122)Letter to Jonathan Penner, 3 March 1978 (Coll-1848/21-0015)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Andrew Graham Grieve Papers, Hamish Henderson Archive, Norman MacCaig Papers, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, John C. Weston PapersSecondary Materials: Norman MacCaig Papers, Quatercentenary CollectionJames Dalrymple (18th century)Poetry: Laing CollectionJohn Davidson (1857-1909)Secondary Materials: Maurice Lindsay Papers, Tom Scott PapersThomas Davidson (1838-1870)‘A Doggerel Allegory of Hemophthisis’, poem, 1869 (MS.3112, f. 302)Letter from Davidson to Professor Forbes, undated (Gen. 1733/114)Elspeth Davie (1918-1995)Typescript Short Story: Records of 'Scottish International Review'Correspondence: Records of 'Scottish International Review'Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart PapersLavinia Derwent (1909-1989)Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid PapersGavin Douglas (c.1474?-1522)Self-Standing Materials'Virgil's Aeneid', MS copy, ca. 1515-1520 (Dk.7.49, part I, ff. 2r-367v)'Virgil's Aeneid', MS copy, mid-late 16th century (Dc.1.43)TS of work by Mary Ringsleben on Gavin Douglas (Coll-1400)Materials in Other CollectionsPoetry: Laing CollectionNorman Douglas (1868-1952)Self-Standing MaterialsLetter to Emilio Papa, [August 1944) (Gen. 1731/D/8)Materials in Other CollectionsSecondary Materials: Hugh MacDiarmid PapersO. Douglas (Anna Masterton Buchan) (1877-1948)Secondary Materials: Marion Lochhead Papers, Thomas Nelson ArchiveArthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)Self-Standing Materials'An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis', MD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1885 (MS 2600)'Thomas Carlyle, the Man, the Writer, and the Philosopher', MS of lecture to the Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society, January 1886 (Gen. 2122/9)Letter (on spiritualism) to Henrik Enesy, 8 March 1926 (Coll-1848/18-0167)Letter to unnamed correspondent, 29 December [1914] (Dc.4.101-103)Letter (on spiritualism) to unnamed correspondent, 14 February [19--?] (Coll-1545)Letter, 23 March 1901 (Gen. 1731/D/12)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Charles Saroléa PapersSecondary Materials: Thomas Nelson ArchiveAdam Drinan (Joseph Macleod) (1903-1984)Typescript Poems: Hugh MacDiarmid PapersCorrespondence: Maurice Lindsay Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers, Tom Scott PapersSecondary Materials: Tom Scott PapersWilliam Drummond (1585-1649)Self-Standing MaterialsWilliam Drummond of Hawthornden Manuscript CollectionMS annotations by Drummond in copy of Robert Estienne, 'Les mots françois selon l’ordre des lettres' (Paris, 1544) (De.4.15)MS annotations by Drummond in copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘The Faerie Queene’ (London, 1609) (JY 1069)Materials in Other CollectionsPoetry: Halliwell-Phillipps Collection (MS H.-P. Coll. 401), Laing CollectionSignature: Records of the University of EdinburghJames Dudgeon (18th century)MS Poems (Coll-1542/3)William Dudgeon (ca. 1753-1813)MS Poems (Coll-1542/4)Carol Ann Duffy (1955- )Correspondence: Robert Nye PapersWilliam Dunbar (1460?-1520?)Self-Standing Materials'Ros Mary: Ane Ballat of Our Lady', MS copy, late 15th-early 16th century (MS 205, f. 183v)Materials in Other CollectionsPoetry: Laing CollectionLaurence Dundas (1662-1734)Poetry: Laing CollectionDouglas Dunn (1942- )Self-Standing MaterialsTSS of lecture 'Under the Influence' and poem 'December's Door' (E87.48)Letters to Brenda Moon, Edinburgh University Library, 12 February 1986 (Gen 1733/110), 29 January 1987 (E87.48), 27 August 1988 (E88.108)Letter to Peter Freshwater, Edinburgh University Library, 26 March 1991 (E91.42)Materials in Other CollectionsCorrespondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Robert Nye PapersSecondary Materials: George Mackay Brown Papers, Fred Urquhart PapersDorothy Dunnett (1923-2001)Self-Standing MaterialsLetters, 6 November and 25 November 1985, and postcard, 25 March 1994 to Edinburgh University Library (Gen 1733/133-34, E95.50)Materials in Other CollectionsSecondary Materials: Fred Urquhart PapersG. F. (Geoffrey Fraser) Dutton (1924-2010)Correspondence: Hamish Henderson ArchiveGeorge Eglisham (fl. 1612–1642)Poetry: William Drummond ManuscriptsSir David Erskine (1772-1837)Correspondence: Laing CollectionRalph Erskine (1685-1752)Self-Standing MaterialsNotebooks of Ralph Erskine (New College Library Special Collections)Papers relating to James Hadow, Alexander Hamilton, John Stirling, Ralph Erskine, and John Warden (New College Library Special Collections)Letter to Rev. George Whitefield, 10 April 1741 (Coll-1267)Materials in Other CollectionsPoetry: Laing CollectionCorrespondence: Laing CollectionGavin Ewart (1916-1995)Correspondence: Robert Nye Papers This article was published on 2024-08-21