Works

• The wisdom of Solomon, 1755 external source
• Memorials and letters relating to the history of Britain in the reign of James the First, 1766 external source
• The Secret Correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI. King of Scotland, 1766 external source
• Ancient Scottish poems. (ed.) 1770 external source
• Account of the martyrs at Smyrna and Lyons, in the second century. 1776 external source
• Annals of Scotland, 1779 external source

3rd Edition: Annals of Scotland: From the Accession of Malcolm III. to the Accession of the House of Stewart, 1797 in 3 vols. vol 2

• Of the manner in which the persecutors died: a treatise by Lactantius, 1782 (tr.) external source
• The opinions of Sarah, duchess-dowager of Marlborough, 1788 (ed.) external source
• The address of Q. Sept. Tertullian, to Scapula Tertullus, proconsul of Africa, 1790 (tr.) external source
• The Little Freeholder, a Dramatic Entertainment, in Two Acts, 1790 external source

Works about Dalrymple

• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hailes, Dalrymple David, Lord
• Dalrymple, David (1726-1792) (DNB00)
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Hailes, David Dalrymple, Lord
• Hailes, Lord (DNB00)