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Scottish Authors C-E

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)

Angus Calder (1942-2008)

Norman Cameron (1905-1953)

Alexander Campbell (1764-1824)

Self-Standing Materials
  • ‘Ode to Dugald Stewart’, 1806 (Dc.6.11, ff. 1-2)
Materials in Other Collections

Angus Peter Campbell (1952- )

Donald Campbell (1940-2019)

John Campbell (1708-1775)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Miscellaneous Papers, 21 categories of items (Dc.1.67)
Materials in Other Collections

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

Cape Club

David Carey (1782-1824)

Cargill, James (19th century)

Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866)

  • 2 letters to W. E. Forster(?), undated (Gen. 1930/Carlyle/69-70)
  • Letter to Miss Lamont, undated (Gen. 1930/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. 1930/Carlyle/22)
  • 2 letters to Charlotte Southam, 16 September 1858, and undated (Gen. 1930/Carlyle/19-20)
  • Letter to Kate Sterling, undated (Gen. 1930/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. 1930/Carlyle/33)
  • 5 letters to Mrs Warren, 1865 & undated, microfilm copies (Mic.M.135)
  • Letter to Miss Wilson, undated (Gen. 1930/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

Robert Carruthers (1799-1878)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to G. Bullen, 1857 (Gen. 1790, no. 57)
Materials in Other Collections

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

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

Douglas Cheape (1797-1861)

Jo Clifford (1951- )

J. (Joseph) Storer Clouston (1870-1944)

Alison Cockburn (ca. 1712-1794)

Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (1779-1854)

W. D. (William Dixon) Cocker (1882-1970)

Samuel Colvil (fl. 1640-1680)

Robert Colvill (d. 1788)

Stewart Conn (1936- )

Joe Corrie (1894-1968)

William Craig, Lord Craig (1745 -1813)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Fragment (Gen. 1730/C/11)
Materials in Other Collections

Louisa Matilda Crawford (ca. 1791-1857)

Robert Crawford (1959- )

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

A. J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin (1896-1981)

Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886-1975)

Alexander Cunningham (1655–1730)

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

James Cunningham (18th century)

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

Catherine Lucy Czerkawska (1950- )

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

James Dalrymple (18th century)

John Davidson (1857-1909)

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)

Lavinia Derwent (1909-1989)

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

Norman Douglas (1868-1952)

Self-Standing Materials
  • Letter to Emilio Papa, [August 1944) (Gen. 1731/D/8)
Materials in Other Collections

O. Douglas (Anna Masterton Buchan) (1877-1948)

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

Adam Drinan (Joseph Macleod) (1903-1984)

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

James Dudgeon (18th century)

William Dudgeon (ca. 1753-1813)

Carol Ann Duffy (1955- )

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

Laurence Dundas (1662-1734)

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

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

G. F. (Geoffrey Fraser) Dutton (1924-2010)

George Eglisham (fl. 1612–1642)

Sir David Erskine (1772-1837)

Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)

Self-Standing Materials
Materials in Other Collections

Gavin Ewart (1916-1995)

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