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Papers of the Very Reverend A Nevile Davidson.
Including newspapers cuttings, 1935-1945, and the typescript of Davidson`s autobiography, 1977.
Personal and literary papers of Wendy Wood, including notes, correspondence, diaries, corrected typescripts of autobiographical work, records of the Scottish Patriots, and associated press cuttings.
Photocopy of an autobiographical fragment of John Saunders.
Describing country life in Perthshire.
Photocopy of corrected typescript of autobiography of George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, "My Father`s Son"
Photocopy of manuscript autobiography of Dr Farquhar MacRae, Ratagan, Kintail.
Photocopy of the Reverend Archibald Allan, "Autobiographical Notes".
Includes an account of his early years in the Fife coalfield.
Photocopy of typescript of "Reminiscences of Argentina and Uruguay", an autobiography by George Bruce.
Details Bruce`s life in the Scots communities in South America.
Portion of the autobiography of George Miller, bookseller in Haddington and Dunbar, covering the years 1803 to 1818.
Some leaves are missing at the beginning and end of the volume.
Inserted are some letters to George Miller, printed prospectuses, subscription sheets, etc.
`Some Remarks on Providence and the Lord`s dealings with me in my tender years, and progressively carried on since. Together with some Meditations on various subjects`, by Hugh Camron, a catechist and schoolmaster in Lochbroom.
The first 12 chapters are mainly autobiographical. There are two later insertions however, the preface and the section between folios 49 and 53 verso, which deals with later events in his life dating from 1751 to 1763. Chapter 13 is divided into 16 sections taking the form of moralising essays on various aspects of Christian behaviour. The work is apparently unpublished.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Typescript autobiography of Mary M Couper, "Zest for Life".
Typescript copy of 'Green days in forests. Some recollections and reflections of a timber merchant' by James Begg, with original photographs.
The volume contains photographs, pasted in, of loggers and timber merchants and their horses and machinery at work in and around Glasgow; farm animals and birds; landscapes and scenery encountered in the course of Begg's work; and a portrait photograph of the author's father.
Typescript copy of volume 6 of the 'Scottish Solider' by Douglas N Wimberley.
Consisting almost entirely of family letters, 1890-1945.
Typescript of "Reminiscences of my life in the Highlands" by Joseph Mitchell.
Typescript, undated, of an autobiographical work of Margaret Mackenzie Scott, "Childhood of a Nobody", with other papers.
Including typescripts of a short story, undated, and articles, 1923-1940.
Typescripts of diaries and autobiographical pieces of C Meadmore.
Material concerns life in post-war Edinburgh and holidays in Scotland, and includes three letters of Miss Meadmore to her mother.