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Alexander Wood, "Gleamings from Sixty Years of a Life Chiefly Spent in Edinburgh, 1823-1883".
Autobiographical and historical material compiled by John Kennedy Cameron.
Autobiography and diaries of foreign travel, circa 1953-1979, of Helen Henderson.
With photocopies of poetry, circa 1890, of William Constable (originals now destroyed).
Autobiography and notes of Thomas Dunachie.
Autobiography of Chilton L Addison-Smith.
Covering up to 1929.
With biographical papers.
Autobiography of Douglas Wimberley, "Scottish Soldier".
Autobiography of John Simpson Kidd.
Describing his early days in Aberdeenshire, and his enlisting in the 21st Foot.
Autobiography of Thomas Mitchell addressed to Thomas Boston, minister of the Gospel at Jedburgh. With a 'History of Thomas Mitchell, born and educated among the Gypsies; afterwards a soldier in the 21sts Regiment of Foot or North British Fusiliers', published by the Edinburgh Religious Tract Society, 1816.
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Copy, 1828, of the account of his activities leading to his flight from Scotland in 1567 and his subsequent adventures on the coast of Norway composed by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, in 1568, whilst he was confined at Copenhagen by order of the King of Denmark.
The account was intended to show that Bothwell was the victim of ill will on the part of the Scottish nobility, and to persuade the King to release him; but he was unsuccessful and remained in prison until his death in 1578.
Following an application by the Curators of the Advocates` Library to the philologist R C Rask, this copy was made in 1828 from the original, in Drottningholm, by P A Wallmark, Librarian to the King of Sweden.
Copy, dated June 16 1727 (page 178), of the autobiography of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, which was written (in the third person) apparently in 1714 (page 171).
The text ends at page 171: the following pages contain passages intended for previous insertion.
Copy of James Hog, minister of Carnock’s autobiography, `Memorial written by Philomathes and addressed to his surviving Friends`.
The work is written in the third person in eleven chapters, most of which concern Hog’s spiritual life.
The hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.9(i).
Copy of ‘The Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, M.D.’, made by William Gibb, writer, for the Advocates` Library, 1805, from the original manuscript, 1695, which has apparently been lost.
Corrected copies and manuscripts of works by Moray McLaren.
Corrected proof copy of `A Life in Pictures` by Alasdair Gray.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Correspondence and papers of Arthur Woodburn, including articles, press cuttings, lectures, photographs, glass slides and drafts of an autobiography.
Arthur Woodburn's strong interest in economics, education, European unity, international relations, modern languages and Scottish history and literature are reflected in the papers.
Correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Fragments of the manuscript of Henry Cockburn, "Memorials of His Time", with many unpublished and variant passages.
Further literary papers and correspondence of and relating to Gael Turnbull.
'Green days in forests. Some recollections and reflections of a timber merchant' by James Begg.
The author, James Begg, belonged to a Glasgow firm of saw millers.
Reproduced from typescript with a few manuscript corrections.
Journals and papers of David Stephen, composer and organist.
The collection contains journals and some other papers of David Stephen (1869-1946), organist and composer in Dundee, Arbroath and St Andrews, and from 1903 music director of the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Literary papers of John Herdman.
Includes literary notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of a novel, a play, short stories, poems, articles and an autobiography.