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‘Memoirs’ by James Erskine, Lord Grange.
Item
Identifier: MS.1008
Scope and Contents
The memoirs consist chiefly of religious communings, but contain some mention of the writer, James Erskine's temporal activities, particularly in connection with the Jacobite movement and his brother, the Earl of Mar.
Dates:
3 May 1726-30 January 1727.
Memoirs, compiled ?1905-?1907, of John M'Kie, Fleet Engineer (circa 1820-1915).
Series
Identifier: MSS.24632-24636
Scope and Contents
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs of Ann Anderson, a nurse in Australia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11468
Scope and Contents
Includes documents and letters of and concerning Ann Anderson.
Memoir published in 1992.
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns in Spain, 1808, Netherlands, 1809, and the Peninsular War, 1812-1813.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23629-23631
Dates:
1808-1813.
Memoirs of Edward Robarts, an ordinary seaman, describing his travels and adventures in the South Seas from 1797 to 1824, particularly his seven year stay on the Marquesas Islands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.18
Scope and Contents
The memoirs give an account of the ‘manners and customs’ of the natives together with a vocabulary of the Marquesas language.
A short poem, not in Edward Robarts` hand, has been written in pencil on the back flyleaf.
Dates:
1824.
Memoirs of John Brand, Minister of Borrowstounness.
Item
Identifier: MS.1668
Scope and Contents
The memoirs, which are chiefly based on John Brand's diary, begin in 1669, the year of his birth, and continue to 1727, ten years before his death, with a gap from 1711 to 1714, for which period he says that he can find no diary. He describes his young days at the College of Edinburgh; his employment as a tutor after his graduation as Master of Arts; his appointment to Bo'ness; and his life after his marriage. The memoirs are chiefly of a personal interest since they were written for the...
Dates:
1669-1727.
‘Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott’ by William Dalgleish, Scott’s butler.
Item
Identifier: MS.5199
Dates:
1822-1829.
'Memoirs of the family of Grant. Written in the year 1752', being a history and genealogy of the Grants of Grant and several of their principal cadets.
Item
Identifier: MS.10970
Scope and Contents
The text was compiled in 1752, but has additions up to 1773, and is written on paper watermarked 1811. The manuscript may originally have been compiled by William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, the account of whose life is unusually detailed (folio 48) and whose Hanoverian politics are reflected in the account of some eighteenth-century Grants (for example folio 43).
Dates:
1752-1773.
Memoirs of the Rev Donald J. Gillies.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12991
Scope and Contents
Memoirs concerning life on the island of Saint Kilda before the evacuation of the last residents in 1930, his emigration to Canada and his pastoral work in Vancouver.
Dates:
Circa 1910-1993.
Microfilm of copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1110
Dates:
1675-early 18th century.
Microfilm of material concerning Tipu Sultan.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.784-785
Dates:
1574-1923.
Microfilm of memoir and journal of a tour to Italy of Charlotte Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1245
Dates:
1789-1800.
Microfilm of memoirs by John Y Gray, Sir Alexander Gray's father, of his family in Angus, titled, 'My Kith and Kin', with later additions.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1105
Dates:
[Circa 1916.]
Microfilm of 'Memoirs of Alexander Dalrymple, Esq., FRS, Hydrographer to the Admiralty and the Hon. the East India Company', anonymous, written after Dalrymple's death in 1808.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.894
Dates:
1808.
Microfilm of memoirs of Edward Robarts, an ordinary seaman, describing his travels and adventures in the South Seas from 1797 to 1824, particularly his seven year stay on the Marquesas Islands.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.222
Dates:
1824.
Microfilm of miscellaneous account books and copy of ‘An Account of the Lord’s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1046
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of ‘An Account of the Lord`s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications’, being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, wife of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, written apparently in or about 1711, the date of the latest events recorded (Adv.MS.34.6.22), 41 frames;Account book of the Sutherland estates (Dep.313/502), 121 frames;Account book of the Sutherland estates (Dep.313/503)...
Dates:
1650-1693, ?1711.
Microfilm of ‘Re-collections of an Indian Civilian’ by Francis Jeffrey Cockburn (London, 1906).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2028
Dates:
1906.
Microfilm of six volumes of ‘scrapbooks’, the memoirs of David Douglas, bookseller, chronicling the years 1847-1903.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1438-1441
Dates:
1903-1906.
Microfilm of the original manuscript, from the Scots College in Paris, of the memoirs of the Chevalier de Johnstone.
Item
Identifier: MS.1028 [Mf.MSS.1]
Scope and Contents
The memoirs consist of: volume i, "Mémoires de la Guerre d’Escosse en 1745”; volume ii, narrative of Chevalier Johnstone's adventures from 1746 to 1760; volume iii, "Guerre de l’lsle Royal et Siège de Louisbourg en 1758; La Guerre de Canada. Campagne de 1759” (containing "Dialogue des Morts entre M. le Marquis de Montcalm . . . et M. Wolf", “Suite de la Campagne de 1759”, and “Campagne de 1760. Jusques à la capitulation générale . . . faite le 7 Sepre. 1760".The volume bears the...
Dates:
1745-1760.
Microfilm of typescript of Austen Henry Layard’s memoir of his time as British minister to Spain, titled 'Spain Section 1 1869-1870'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2074
Dates:
1883.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 2. The correspondence and records of Smith, Elder and Company from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1235-1241
Dates:
[?1837-?1924.]
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
File
Identifier: MS.2618
Scope and Contents
The principle items are as follows.Letter, undated, of Alexander Alesius, Professor of Theology at Leipzig, to a patron, thanking him for favours. (Folio 1.)'A briefe relacon of all such passages as happened dureing the Seidge of the Castle of Edinburgh' (of 1640), written by one of the garrison in reply to ‘A True representation of the proceedings of the Kingdome of Scotland’ by the Estates of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1640). An item torn from a manuscript book. (Folio...
Dates:
[1640, or after]-1866, undated.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Testamentary Memoir written by Theophilus, in which his own dearest concerns are Ingenuously Narrated, and sundry of a more publick Nature are also touched, all Addressed to his surviving friends`, early 18th century. This is similar in style to the ‘Memorial` of James Hog, and the hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.8. The author appears to have written other memorials and a short history of the Covenanters based...
Dates:
18th century.