Scottish Authors P-R

Andrew Park (1807-1863)

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

Mungo Park (1771-1806)

• Financial Document: Laing Collection
• Secondary Materials: Carmichael-Watson Collection, Scotland Africa 97 Archive

Dorothy Paulin (1904-1982)

• Secondary Materials: Tom Scott

Walter Perrie (1949- )

• Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid

James Philp (1656 or 1657-1713?)

• Poetry: Laing Collection

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

• Correspondence: Robert Nye
• Secondary Materials: Tom Scott, Fred Urquhart

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)

• Prose: Laing Collection
• Correspondence: Laing Collection
• Secondary Materials: Carmichael-Watson Collection, Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon

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

• Drama: Laing Collection
• Poetry: Laing Collection
• Prose: Laing Collection
• Secondary Materials: Papers of David Gregory

Tom Pow (1950- )

• Correspondence: Hamish Henderson, Hugh MacDiarmid, Robert Nye, Records of 'Scottish International Review'
• Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown

William Power (1873-1951)

• Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid

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

• Correspondence: Laing Collection

John Purser (1942- )

• Correspondence: Records of 'Scottish International Review

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

• Correspondence: Fred Urquhart

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

• Drama: Laing Collection
• Poetry: Laing Collection

Tessa Ransford (1938-2015)

Self-Standing Materials

• Material relating to Tessa Ransford

Materials in Other Collections

• Typescript Poem: Hamish Henderson
• Correspondence: Hamish Henderson, Robert Nye

Alastair Reid (1926-2014)

• Correspondence: Hamish Henderson, Maurice Lindsay

Alexander Reid (1914-1982)

• Manuscript and Typescript Poems and Play: Hugh MacDiarmid, Fred Urquhart
• Correspondence: Tom Scott, Fred Urquhart
• Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart

John MacNair Reid (1895-1954)

• Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid, Fred Urquhart

Robert Rendall (1898-1967)

• Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown, Tom Scott

Alan Riach (1957- )

• Correspondence: Hamish Henderson, Hugh MacDiarmid

William Richardson (1743-1814)

• Correspondence: Laing Collection

Henry Scott Riddell (1798-1870)

Self-Standing Materials

• Letter to Peter Laidlaw, 1850 (Gen.1983/46)

Materials in Other Collections

• Correspondence: Laing Collection
• Secondary Materials: Papers of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865)

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

Alexander Robertson of Struan (c.1669-1749)

• Correspondence: Laing Collection

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

• Secondary Materials: Tom Scott, Records of 'Scottish International Review'

Alexander Rodger (1784-1846)

• Poetry: Laing Collection

Charles Rogers (1825-1890)

• Poetry: Laing Collection
• Correspondence: Laing Collection

Bess Ross (1945- )

• Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown

Thomas Ross (d. 1675)

• Poetry: Laing Collection

Christopher Rush (1944- )

• Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown, Fred Urquhart