Scottish Authors M-R

Manuscripts of Scottish writers including Elizabeth Melville, Naomi Mitchison, Alexander Montgomerie, Edwin Morgan, Willa Muir, Allan Ramsay, and Tessa Ransford.

Wes Magee (1939-2021)

Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586)

John Malcolm (1795?-1835)

David Mallet (1705?-1765)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Translations and annotations in ‘Tractatus quinque medico-physic…’ (J. Mayow, 1674) (*G.31.24)
Materials in Other Collections

Gerald Mangan (1951- )

John Manson (1932-2020)

Bruce Marshall (1899-1987)

John Martin (18th Century)

Theodore Martin (1816-1909)

Allan Massie (1938- )

Gavin Maxwell (1914-1969)

John Mayne (1759-1836)

James Meek (1962- )

Andrew Melville (1545-1622)

Elizabeth Melville (c.1578–c.1640)

Self-Standing Materials
  • ‘Ane Godlie Dreame’, MS copy, 17th century (De. 3. 70)
Materials in Other Collections

Metrical Society

William Julius Mickle (1734-1788)

  • Letter from Mickle to D. Braithwaite, 1788 (Dc.4.101-103)

Hugh Miller (1802-1856)

Self-Standing Articles
  • Leading article for ‘The Witness’ [fragmentary], autograph (Dc.4.101-103)
  • Letter to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1838 (Gen. 1999/1/16)
Materials in Other Collections

Lydia Falconer Miller (1811?-1876)

Self-Standing Articles
  • Letter to Robert Carruthers, 1859 (JA 3653)
Materials in Other Collections

William Minto (1845-1893)

Mitchell, Joseph (1684-1738)

Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Postcard to Leicester Secular Society, 17 September 1932 (Gen. 1875, no. 95)
  • 2 letters from Wyndham Lewis, 5 May, 11 July 1931 (Dc.4.101-103)
Materials in Other Collections

David Macbeth Moir (1798-1851)

Self-Standing Materials
  • ‘Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine’ (Dc.6.92)
Materials in Other Collections

Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550?–1598)

Norah Montgomerie (1909-1998)

William Montgomerie (1904-1994)

James Montgomery (1771-1854)

James Moor (1712-1779)

John Moore (1729-1802)

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010)

David Morrison (1941-2012)

N. (Nancy) Brysson Morrison (1903-1986)

William Motherwell (1797-1835)

Self-Standing Materials
  • ‘The Parting’, poem, 182-?, with letter from Motherwell to Alexander Ramsay, 1827, and a note on the poem by P. A. Ramsay, 1842 (Dh.6.68/128)
Materials in Other Collections

Edwin Muir (1887-1959)

Willa Muir (1890-1970)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to Vernon Watkins, 24 January 1959 (Coll-1488)
Materials in Other Collections

Hugh Munro (1909-1982)

Neil Munro (1863-1930)

William Mure (1594–1657)

Angus Wolfe Murray (1937- )

Charles Murray (1864-1941)

Self-Standing Materials
  • 'Fae France' and 'The Thraws of Fate', manuscript poems in letter from Robert R. Walls to Prof. John MacQueen, 6 May 1967 (Gen. 1732/M/7)
  • Letter to William Armstrong, 24 September [1925] (in JA 3814)
Materials in Other Collections

Sir Charles Augustus Murray (1806-1895)

  • Correspondence from Thomas Carlyle (Gen. 1733)

William Henry Murray (1790-1852)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to Morris Bennett, 1836, with a fragment of a letter on the verso (Gen. 863/8/106)
  • Letter from Charles Kemble to Murray, 1844 (Dc.4.101-103)
Materials in Other Collections

Tom Nairn (1932- )

Lady Carolina Nairne (1766-1845)

Neaves, Charles Neaves, Lord (1800-1876)

William Neill (1922-2010)

Ada Nelson (20th Century)

John Nevay (1792-1870)

  • 'Mary Stuart’s Farewell to France', poem (Gen. 1995/55)

John Nichol (1833-1894)

  • Testimonial in favour of J. H. Stirling, 1868 (Dc.4.104/3, ff. 29-30)

Robert Nicoll (1814-1837)

John Ogilvie (1733-1813)

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant (1828-1897)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to Rev. J. Matheson, 1860 (Dc.4.101-103 (Irving))
Materials in Other Collections

Christine Orr (1899-1963)

George Outram (1805-1856)

  • Letter to his father, 1830 (Dc.1.100, no. 7)

Andrew Park (1807-1863)

  • Letter to Dr Richard, 1862 (Gen. 1982/73)

Mungo Park (1771-1806)

Dorothy Paulin (1904-1982)

Walter Perrie (1949- )

James Philp (1656 or 1657-1713?)

J. B. (John Barclay) Pick (1921-2015)

Andrew Picken (1788-1833)

  • 2 letters from James B. Fraser, 1 to Alaric A. Watts and 1 to Andrew Picken, 1829-1831 (Dk.8.4/3)

John Pinkerton (1758-1826)

Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Manuscript Copies of Texts by Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713), Physician and Poet (MS PIT)
  • 'Archimedis epistola ad regem Gelonem', prose fragment, attrib. to Pitcairne (Dc.4.101-103)
  • 'Georgius Buchanus Gualtero Dannistono', Latin poem, said to be in the hand of Pitcairne, on the fly end leaf of ‘Gualteri Dannistoni ad Georgium Buchanum epistola … 1706’ (De.7.69)
  • Mathematical and other papers, with items by or referring to Pitcairne (Dc.1.61)
  • 'Praxeos Pitcarnianae specimina', papers of Pitcairne containing medical prescriptions, notes on medical matters, correspondence, etc., ca. 1701-1708, with letters from Pitcairne to David Gregory (1700-1708) (Dc.1.62)
Materials in Other Collections

Tom Pow (1950- )

William Power (1873-1951)

Thomas Pringle (1789-1834)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to R. F. Housman, 1829, with an engraving of Pringle by W. Finden (Dc.4.101-103)
  • 2 letters to Edward Moxon, 1834, and undated (Dc.4.101-103)
  • Letter from Allan Cunningham to Pringle, 1832 (Dh.6.67/201)
Materials in Other Collections

John Purser (1942- )

Hugh C. (Crauford) Rae (1935-2014)

Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)

Self-Standing Materials
  • ‘An Elegy on Lucky Wood in the Canongate, May 1717’, autograph fair copy, written on the flyleaf of ‘Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems’ (James Watson) (JA 2025)
  • ‘The Miller and his Man, or, Self Deed Self Fae: A Tale’, autograph fair copy, ca. 1728 (Gen. 752)
  • ‘A Prayer’ (‘Father and Friend of Humane race’), autograph, corrected (Gen. 2122/14)
  • ‘To Mr James Home, Writer to the Signet’, autograph fair copy, 1730, written on a blank leaf in Ramsay’s 'Poems', 1721-1728 (JA 3822-3823)
Materials in Other Collections

Tessa Ransford (1938-2015)

Self-Standing Materials
Materials in Other Collections

Alastair Reid (1926-2014)

Alexander Reid (1914-1982)

John MacNair Reid (1895-1954)

Robert Rendall (1898-1967)

Alan Riach (1957- )

William Richardson (1743-1814)

Henry Scott Riddell (1798-1870)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to Peter Laidlaw, 1850 (Gen.1983/46)
Materials in Other Collections

Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865)

  • Letter from Ritchie, ca. 1860 (Gen. 1983/56)

Alexander Robertson of Struan (c.1669-1749)

Edith A. (Anne) Robertson (1883-1973)

Alexander Rodger (1784-1846)

Charles Rogers (1825-1890)

Bess Ross (1945- )

Thomas Ross (d. 1675)

Christopher Rush (1944- )

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