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Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Further literary papers and correspondence of and relating to Gael Turnbull.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Memoir of George Romanes in the form of a letter to his son Professor George Romanes.
Memoir covers some Romanes family history, George Romanes` early life in Edinburgh, his early work as a civil engineer in Egypt and Calgary and war service with the Royal Engineers from 1917-1919. Includes transcript.
Microfilm of 'Parte of the life of Lady Margaret Cunningham, Daughter to the Earle of Glencairn yt she had wt her first husband the master of Evandale. The just and true account yrof as it was first written wt her oun hand’, 1608, with letters and her will, 1607, 1622.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Papers of and concerning Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haldane, Royal Engineers.
The manuscript consists of:
Letters, 1796-1797, 1805 to Henry Haldane concerning his applications to retire from the army (folio 1);
Haldane’s account, circa 1821, of his military career (folio 17);
Letters, 1825, concerning the award of a pension to Haldane’s children (folio 23);
Legal papers, 1798-1848, concerning Haldane’s family (folio 30);
Genealogical papers, ?1796, undated, concerning the Haldane family (folio 42).
Papers of and concerning T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including corrected typescripts of novels and autobiographical work; and five letters of C M Grieve to Mary MacDonald.
Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).
George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including notebooks, typescripts of novels and autobiographical work, and letters from various correspondents, including six from C M Grieve and four from Edwin Muir.
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.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Typescript copy of volume 6 of the 'Scottish Solider' by Douglas N Wimberley.
Consisting almost entirely of family letters, 1890-1945.
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.