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)
- Correspondence: Robert Nye Papers
Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586)
- Poetry: William Drummond Manuscripts
John Malcolm (1795?-1835)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
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
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Gerald Mangan (1951- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
John Manson (1932-2020)
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
Bruce Marshall (1899-1987)
- Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart Papers, Scrapbook of Ella MacGregor
John Martin (18th Century)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Theodore Martin (1816-1909)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Allan Massie (1938- )
- Correspondence: Robert Nye Papers
- Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart Papers
Gavin Maxwell (1914-1969)
- Secondary Materials: Norman MacCaig Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
John Mayne (1759-1836)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
James Meek (1962- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
Andrew Melville (1545-1622)
- Poetry: William Drummond Manuscripts
Elizabeth Melville (c.1578–c.1640)
Self-Standing Materials
- ‘Ane Godlie Dreame’, MS copy, 17th century (De. 3. 70)
Materials in Other Collections
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Metrical Society
- Album: Laing Collection
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
- Correspondence: Records of Edinburgh Geological Society, Sir Archibald Geikie Papers, John Johnstone Papers, Laing Collection, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison Correspondence
Lydia Falconer Miller (1811?-1876)
Self-Standing Articles
- Letter to Robert Carruthers, 1859 (JA 3653)
Materials in Other Collections
William Minto (1845-1893)
- Correspondence: Halliwell-Phillipps Collection (L.O.A.197/25, L.O.A.225/16)
Mitchell, Joseph (1684-1738)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
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
- Typescript Poems: Hamish Henderson Archive
- Correspondence: Helen Cruickshank Papers, Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
- Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
David Macbeth Moir (1798-1851)
Self-Standing Materials
- ‘Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine’ (Dc.6.92)
Materials in Other Collections
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550?–1598)
Norah Montgomerie (1909-1998)
- Correspondence: Fred Urquhart Papers
William Montgomerie (1904-1994)
- Typescript Poems and Essay: Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
- Correspondence: George Mackay Brown Papers, Helen Cruickshank Papers, Hamish Henderson Archive, Maurice Lindsay Papers, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
James Moor (1712-1779)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
John Moore (1729-1802)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Edwin Morgan (1920-2010)
- Typescript Poems and Prose: Hamish Henderson Archive, Maurice Lindsay Papers, Norman MacCaig Papers,Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Records of 'Scottish International Review'
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Maurice Lindsay Papers, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Records of 'Scottish International Review'
- Secondary Materials: Norman MacCaig Papers, Tom Scott Papers, Records of 'Scottish International Review', Fred Urquhart Papers
David Morrison (1941-2012)
- Typescript Review: Records of 'Scottish International Review'
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Sorley MacLean Correspondence, Records of 'Scottish International Review'
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers
N. (Nancy) Brysson Morrison (1903-1986)
- Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart Papers
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
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Edwin Muir (1887-1959)
- See: Edwin Muir Papers
Willa Muir (1890-1970)
Self-Standing Materials
- Letter to Vernon Watkins, 24 January 1959 (Coll-1488)
Materials in Other Collections
- Correspondence: George Mackay Brown Papers, David Daiches Papers, Hamish Henderson Archive, Edwin Muir Papers, Tom Scott Papers
- Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown Papers, Helen Cruickshank Papers, Norman MacCaig Papers, Edwin Muir Papers, Tom Scott Papers, Records of 'Scottish International Review'
Hugh Munro (1909-1982)
- Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart Papers
Neil Munro (1863-1930)
- Correspondence: Charles Saroléa Papers
- Secondary Materials: Marion Lochhead Papers, Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
William Mure (1594–1657)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Angus Wolfe Murray (1937- )
- Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart Papers
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
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers
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
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Tom Nairn (1932- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive
Lady Carolina Nairne (1766-1845)
- Legal Document: Laing Collection
Neaves, Charles Neaves, Lord (1800-1876)
- Correspondence: Sir Archibald Geikie Papers, Laing Collection
William Neill (1922-2010)
- Typescript Essay: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
- Secondary Materials: Records of 'Scottish International Review'
Ada Nelson (20th Century)
- Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
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)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
John Ogilvie (1733-1813)
- Correspondence: Laing Collection
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant (1828-1897)
Self-Standing Materials
- Letter to Rev. J. Matheson, 1860 (Dc.4.101-103 (Irving))
Materials in Other Collections
- Secondary Materials: Marion Lochhead Papers
Christine Orr (1899-1963)
- Correspondence: Maurice Lindsay Papers
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)
- Financial Document: Laing Collection
- Secondary Materials: Carmichael-Watson Collection, Scotland Africa 97 Archive
Dorothy Paulin (1904-1982)
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers
Walter Perrie (1949- )
- Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
James Philp (1656 or 1657-1713?)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
J. B. (John Barclay) Pick (1921-2015)
- Correspondence: Robert Nye Papers
- Secondary Materials: Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
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, Donald Mackinnon Collection
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: David Gregory Papers
Tom Pow (1950- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Robert Nye Papers, Records of 'Scottish International Review'
- Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown Papers
William Power (1873-1951)
- Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
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 Papers
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
Materials in Other Collections
- Typescript Poem: Hamish Henderson Archive
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Robert Nye Papers
Alastair Reid (1926-2014)
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Maurice Lindsay Papers
Alexander Reid (1914-1982)
- Manuscript and Typescript Poems and Play: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
- Correspondence: Tom Scott Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
- Secondary Materials: Fred Urquhart Papers
John MacNair Reid (1895-1954)
- Correspondence: Hugh MacDiarmid Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers
Robert Rendall (1898-1967)
- Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown Papers, Tom Scott Papers
Alan Riach (1957- )
- Correspondence: Hamish Henderson Archive, Hugh MacDiarmid Papers
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: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Papers
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 Papers, 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 Papers
Thomas Ross (d. 1675)
- Poetry: Laing Collection
Christopher Rush (1944- )
- Secondary Materials: George Mackay Brown Papers, Fred Urquhart Papers