Janet H. (Hinshaw) Caird (1913-1992)
- Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
Angus Calder (1942-2008)
- Typescript Poem: Hamish Henderson Archive
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
Norman Cameron (1905-1953)
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers
Alexander Campbell (1764-1824)
Self-Standing Materials
- ‘Ode to Dugald Stewart’, 1806 (Dc.6.11, ff. 1-2)
Materials in Other Collections
- Poetry: Laing Collection
- Travel Writing: Laing Collection
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Angus Peter Campbell (1952- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
Donald Campbell (1940-2019)
- Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Records of 'Scottish International Review'
- Secondary Materials: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
John Campbell (1708-1775)
Self-Standing Materials
- Miscellaneous Papers, 21 categories of items (Dc.1.67)
Materials in Other Collections
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
John 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 Materials
- Poems: ‘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 Collections
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
- Financial/Legal Papers: Laing Collection
Cape Club
- Poetry: Laing Collection
David Carey (1782-1824)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Cargill, James (19th century)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Jane 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 Materials
- Deed 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 Collections
- Correspondence: Margaret Duncan Campbell Collection, Laing Collection
- Edinburgh University Rectorial Address: Records of the University of Edinburgh
- Secondary Materials: Thomas Nelson Archive
Robert Carruthers (1799-1878)
Self-Standing Materials
- Letter to G. Bullen, 1857 (Gen. 1790, no. 57)
Materials in Other Collections
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Catherine Carswell (1879-1946)
Self-Standing Materials
- Correspondence 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 Collections
- Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
- Secondary Materials: Helen Cruickshank Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
Robert Chambers (1802-1871)
Self-Standing Materials
- 2 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 Collections
- Correspondence: Sir Archibald Geikie Papers, Laing Collection, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison Correspondence
Douglas Cheape (1797-1861)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Jo Clifford (1951- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
J. (Joseph) Storer Clouston (1870-1944)
- Correspondence: Charles Saroléa Papers
- Secondary Materials: Thomas Nelson Archive
Alison Cockburn (ca. 1712-1794)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (1779-1854)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
W. D. (William Dixon) Cocker (1882-1970)
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers
Samuel Colvil (fl. 1640-1680)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Robert Colvill (d. 1788)
- Financial document: Laing Collection
Stewart Conn (1936- )
- Correspondence: George Mackay Brown Papers, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Robert Nye Papers
- Secondary Materials: Records of 'Scottish International Review', Fred Urquhart Papers
Joe Corrie (1894-1968)
- Manuscript and Typescript Songs: Hamish Henderson Archive
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Tom Scott Papers
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
William Craig, Lord Craig (1745 -1813)
Self-Standing Materials
- Fragment (Gen. 1730/C/11)
Materials in Other Collections
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Louisa Matilda Crawford (ca. 1791-1857)
Robert Crawford (1959- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett (1859-1914)
Self-Standing Materials
- Letter 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 Collections
- Correspondence: William Kirk Dickson Papers
- Secondary Materials: Thomas Nelson Archive, Fred Urquhart Papers
A. J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin (1896-1981)
- Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart Papers
Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886-1975)
Alexander Cunningham (1655–1730)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
Self-Standing Materials
- Poems: '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 Collections
- Correspondence: Ian R. Grant Collection, Laing Collection, Sir Walter Scott Letters
James Cunningham (18th century)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
- Religious Writings: Laing Collection
R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)
Self-Standing Materials
- Letter to Elkin Mathews, 4 December 1917 (Gen. 1730/C/35)
Materials in Other Collections
- Correspondence: Charles Saroléa Papers
- Secondary Materials: 'Jabberwock' Archive, Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
Catherine Lucy Czerkawska (1950- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
David Daiches (1912-2005)
Self-Standing Materials
- TS 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 Collections
- Correspondence: Andrew Graham Grieve Papers, Hamish Henderson Archive, Norman MacCaig Papers, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, John C. Weston Papers
- Secondary Materials: Norman MacCaig Papers, Quatercentenary Collection
James Dalrymple (18th century)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
John Davidson (1857-1909)
- Secondary Materials: Maurice Lindsay Papers, Tom Scott Papers
Thomas 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 Papers
Lavinia Derwent (1909-1989)
- Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
Gavin 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 Collections
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
Self-Standing Materials
- Letter to Emilio Papa, [August 1944) (Gen. 1731/D/8)
Materials in Other Collections
- Secondary Materials: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
O. Douglas (Anna Masterton Buchan) (1877-1948)
- Secondary Materials: Marion Lochhead Papers, Thomas Nelson Archive
Arthur 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 Collections
- Correspondence: Charles Saroléa Papers
- Secondary Materials: Thomas Nelson Archive
Adam Drinan (Joseph Macleod) (1903-1984)
- Typescript Poems: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
- Correspondence: Maurice Lindsay Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers, Tom Scott Papers
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers
William Drummond (1585-1649)
Self-Standing Materials
- William Drummond of Hawthornden Manuscript Collection
- MS 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 Collections
- Poetry: Halliwell-Phillipps Collection (MS H.-P. Coll. 401), Laing Collection
- Signature: Records of the University of Edinburgh
James 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 Papers
William 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 Collections
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Laurence Dundas (1662-1734)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Douglas Dunn (1942- )
Self-Standing Materials
- TSS 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 Collections
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Robert Nye Papers
- Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001)
Self-Standing Materials
- Letters, 6 November and 25 November 1985, and postcard, 25 March 1994 to Edinburgh University Library (Gen 1733/133-34, E95.50)
Materials in Other Collections
- Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart Papers
G. F. (Geoffrey Fraser) Dutton (1924-2010)
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
George Eglisham (fl. 1612–1642)
- Poetry: William Drummond Manuscripts
Sir David Erskine (1772-1837)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)
Self-Standing Materials
- Notebooks 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 Collections
- Poetry: Laing Collection
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Gavin Ewart (1916-1995)
- Correspondence: Robert Nye Papers