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Copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
Copy of typescript of "G S Fraser: A Memoir" by Paddy Fraser.
Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.
Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.
Corrected typescript of Greville MacDonald, "The Story of a Sinn Feiner"
Corrected typescripts of Malcolm Slesser, "Red Peak: a Personal Account of the British-Soviet Pamir Expedition 1962" (London, 1964).
With three published works of Slesser.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin, and George Robert Gleig, author of ‘The Subaltern’.
Also included is some correspondence of Sir Henry George Ward, a connection of Henry J S Bailey's family, and of Bailey himself.
‘Crawfurd’s genealogical collections’, containing memoirs and scattered notes of families by George Crawfurd, in his own hand.
Description of his ascent of Mont Blanc in 1825, by Markham Sherwill.
Diary, two letters and typescript reminiscences of Sergeant Harry Hawthorne, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Draft manuscript of the introduction and book I, chapters 1 and 2 of `Forty-three Years at the Cathedral Perth 1883-1926` by the Reverend George T S Farquhar, Dean of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
Fair copy of the text printed as ‘Memoirs of the secret services of John Macky’, without the introduction.
"Fifty Years a Reader: Memories of the National Library" by Donald Whyte.
Includes bibliography of works written from research in the National Library of Scotland.
"Forty Years Ago" a manuscript memoir by Alexander Simpson.
Describes life in Johnshaven and Benholm, Kincardineshire.
Genealogical material relating to various families in Scotland.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Illustrated typescript of "My Bit in the South African War, 1899-1900-1901" by Captain Cecil C Daniel, the Royal Scots.
Inscribed copy of George S Robertson, "Reminiscences of an Orkney Nonagenarian" (1977).
Includes a letter of Robertson.
"Interrupted Odyssey", an unpublished memoir of Henry Curran.
Memoir describes Curran`s time as an engine-room boy on a Norwegian tanker in an Atlantic convoy of 1942, and his six week imprisonment in Galveston, Texas, after jumping ship.
Journal of Morley Jamieson and manuscript of his "Echoes and Eccentrics: a Personal Account of Bookselling 1942-1966"
Journals and other papers of David Wilson Bogie.
The papers include a memoir of David Bogie`s time at George Watson`s College, an account of the Law Faculty at Edinburgh University and memorials of: the Faculty of Advocates; the Court of Session in the 1970s, and also of the Shrieval Bench in Aberdeen. The papers are accompanied by notes by Alan Bell, Bogie`s unofficial literary executor.