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Manuscripts of Scottish writers including Violet Jacob, Jessie Kesson, Andrew Lang, Lady Anne Lindsay, Sir David Lindsay, Henry Mackenzie, Sorley Maclean, and F. Marian McNeill.

Alan Jackson (1938- )

Violet Jacob (1863-1946)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to unknown correspondent, 6 April [1936?] (E2013.33)
  • Letter to Dr Tristin, n.d. (Gen. 1731/J/2)
  • Letter to 'Maie', n.d. (Gen. 1731/J/1)
  • Letter to unknown correspondent, 27 February 1930 (Gen. 1731/J/3)
Materials in Other Collections

James VI and I (1566-1625)

Morley Jamieson (1913-1978)

Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)

Self-Standing Materials
  • 2 letters, 1 to Lady Bell and 1 to Miss Pollock, [184-?] and undated (Dc.4.101-103)
  • 4 letters, to Dr John Brown, John Hunter, A. Reily, Sir George Talbot, 1847-1849 and undated (Dc.4.101-103)
  • 3 letters, 1 to [Lord?] Craig, 1 to the Duchess of Sutherland, 1 to an unidentified recipient (Gen.863/8/35; Gen. 1429/18/17; Gen. 1995/41
  • 2 letters to Mrs Fletcher, 24 July 1844 and 18 September [18--] (Gen. 1731/J/10-11)
  • Letter [to James Reddie?], 28 September 1817 (Gen. 1731/J/9)
  • Letter to Lady McNiel, 1841 (Gen. 1731/J/8)
  • Letter to Mrs Waddington, undated (Gen. 1731/J/7)
  • 24 letters to Professor G. Wilson, 1847-1849, and undated (Dk.6.23/1)
  • Letter to Jeffrey from Thomas Campbell, 22 February 1834 (Coll-1176)
Materials in Other Collections

William Jeffrey (1896-1946)

Robin Jenkins (1912-2005)

John Johnston (c.1570–1611)

Jane Kellie (18th century)

James Kelman (1946- )

Robert Kemp (1908-1967)

James Kennaway (1928-1968)

Grace Kennedy (1782-1825)

William Kennedy (1799-1871)

Sir Robert Kerr (or Carr), 1st Earl of Ancram (c. 1578–1654)

Roderick Watson Kerr (1893-1960)

Jessie Kesson (1916-1994)

T. T. Kilbucho (Tom Todd) (b. 1899)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to Marion Lochhead, 2 October 1968 (Gen. 1733/78)
Materials in Other Collections

John Macdonald Kinneir (1782-1830)

  • Letter book and papers relating to Persian affairs, 1824-1830 (Dk.2.37-38; Df.1.53)

Alanna Knight (1923-2020)

Frank Kuppner (1951- )

Alexander Laing (1787-1857)

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Self-Standing Materials
Materials in Other Collections

John Lapraik (1727-1807)

Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1784-1848)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Account of a scene after a pageant, attrib. to Lauder, ca. 1820 (Gen. 1995/42)
  • Letter to F. Dun, 1841 (Da.Reid 9)
  • Letter to W. H. Lizars, 1839 (Dk.6.20/197)
Materials in Other Collections

T. S. (Thomas Sturdy) Law (1916-1997)

Tom Leonard (1944-2018)

John Leyden (1775-1811)

Eddie Linden (1935- )

Lady Anne Lindsay (1750-1825)

Frederic Lindsay (1933-2013)

Maurice Lindsay (1918-2009)

Joan Lingard (1932- )

Eric Linklater (1899-1974)

William Lithgow (1582-1645?)

Liz Lochhead (1947- )

Marion Lochhead (1902-1985)

John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)

Self-Standing Materials
  • 'Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk', 2 fragments, containing parts of letters XVII and LXIX, Dk.3.8/11
  • 4 letters, including 1 to Peter Cunningham and 1 to Sir Joseph Lock, 1839-1840, and undated (Gen. 1731/L/9-10, 13-14)
Materials in Other Collections

John Logan (1748-1788)

Self-Standing Materials
  • 2 letters to A. Carlyle, 1781-82 (Dc.4.41/106-107)
Materials in Other Collections

Robin Lorimer (1918-1996)

David Love (1750-1827)

John Lowe (1750-1798)

Thomas Lyle (1792-1859)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to John Aitken, 28 May 1827 (Coll-1265)
Materials in Other Collections

Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490-c. 1555)

Self-Standing Materials
  • ‘The Complaynt of Schir Dauid Lindesay’, MS copy, ca. 1563-1566 (Dk.7.49, Part II, ff. 118r-124r)
  • ‘The Deploratioun of the Deith of Quene Magdalene’, MS copy, ca. 1563-1566 (Dk.7.49, Part II, ff. 125r-127v)
  • ‘Ane Dialog betuix Experience and Ane Courteour of the Miserabyll Estait of the Warls (The Monarche)’, MS copy, ca. 1563-1566 (Dk.7.49, Part II, ff. 1r-99r)
  • ‘The Dreme of Schir Dauid Lyndesay’, MS copy, ca. 1563-1566 (Dk.7.49, Part II, ff. 99v-118r)
  • ‘The Testament and Complaynt of the Papyngo’, MS copy, ca. 1563-1566 (Dk.7.49, Part II, ff. 128r-144v)
Materials in Other Collections

Alexander McArthur (1901-1947)

Bessie J. B. (Jane Bird) MacArthur (1889-1983)

Donald MacAulay (1930-2017)

George MacBeth (1932-1992)

Self-Standing Materials
Materials in Other Collections

Brian McCabe (1951- )

Norman MacCaig (1910-1996)

Alexander McCall Smith (1948- )

Ewan MacColl (1915-1989)

Fionn MacColla (1906-1975)

Guy McCrone (1898-1977)

Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)

George Macdonald (1824-1905)

Carl MacDougall (1941- )

William MacDowall (1815-1888)

Ronald Campbell Macfie (1867-1931)

John McGrath (1935-2002)

Tom McGrath (1940-2009)

Stuart MacGregor (1935-1973)

William McIlvanney (1936-2015)

Lorn Macintyre (1942- )

Charles Mackay (1814-1889)

Self-Standing Materials
  • ‘Inquiry’, poem (Dc.6.111, f. 212)
Materials in Other Collections

Agnes Mure Mackenzie (1891-1955)

Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972)

Self-Standing Materials
  • 'Sir Compton Mackenzie Salutes the Memory of a Great Patriot': typescript article on death of R. E. Muirhead, with accompanying letter to Tom Spence, 25 August 1964 (Gen. 900)
  • Letter to Mr Barr Adams, 1 January 1931 (Gen. 1732/M/2/iii)
  • Letter to Miss N. C. Barr Adams, 30 March 1931 (Gen. 1732/M/2/iv)
  • Letter to Lewis S. Benjamin, 6 July 1925 (Gen. 1732/M/28)
  • Letters to C. Bramly, 19 July, 26 August 1929 (Gen. 1732/M/2/i-ii)
  • Letters to N. P. Macdonald, 3 October, 20 November 1934 (E89.70)
  • Letter to Mr McLellan, 12 May 1952 (Gen. 1732/M/12)
  • Letter to Miss Martin, 11 July 1945 (Gen. 1732/M/2/v)
  • Letter to R. E. Muirhead, 22 May 1928 (AAF)
Materials in Other Collections

Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to Rev. A. Alison (Dc.3.99/13, f. 3)
  • Letter to Henry Liston, 1828 (Gen. 1982/41)
  • 3 letters to Anna Munro Ross, 1792-1812 (Gen. 301/3)
  • Letter to ‘My dear Henry’, 3 May 1820 (Gen. 1732/M/27)
Materials in Other Collections

A. D. (Albert David) Mackie (1904-1985)

Alastair Mackie (1925-1995)

Rayne Mackinnon (1937-2002)

Moray McLaren (1901-1971)

Alasdair Maclean (1926-1994)

Allan Campbell McLean (1922-1989)

Duncan McLean (1964- )

Sorley MacLean (1911-1996)

Self-Standing Materials
Materials in Other Collections

Robert McLellan (1907-1985)

Hugh McMillan (1955- )

Aonghas MacNeacail (1942- )

F. (Florence) Marian McNeill (1885 -1973)

Hector Macneill (1746-1818)

Eona Macnicol (1910-2002)

James Macpherson (1736-1796)

Candia McWilliam (1955- )

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