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Research notes, manuscripts and correspondence concerning, and proofs of, the 'Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino' (London, 1851), by James Dennistoun.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5524/1-47
Dates:
1845-1851, undated.
Revised manuscript draft of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8471
Dates:
1983.
Script of broadcast of reminiscences of H W Meikle and H J C Grierson, with annotations by Grierson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5350
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1960.
Seven notebooks and a manuscript of Morley Jamieson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8004
Scope and Contents
Containing drafts of a memoir and associated short story.
Dates:
1980.
"Singapore and Afterwards", manuscript account of the fall of Singapore in 1942, by W D Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.9948
Scope and Contents
With typed transcript, 1989.
Dates:
circa 1943.
Six volumes of "scrapbooks" constituting the memoirs of David Douglas, bookseller, chronicling the years 1847-1903.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12309
Dates:
1903-1906.
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates:
1645-1936, undated.
'The memoirs [and] reflections of Hr McNiell [of the Harp], written by himself', a manuscript copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.
Item
Identifier: MS.50257
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in various hands.Title page, including an epigram, in Latin, of Cicero (folio iii).'Chap. I The Authors Parentage.' Information concerning MacNeill’s grandfather and father (pages 1-9).'Chap. II. An unfashionable picture of Domestic Life.' An account of the MacNeills’ domestic life at their home at Rosebank, near Roslin, and subsequently near Loch Lomond (pages 9-17).'Chap. 3d. Some account of the Author.' Information...
Dates:
1804, 1912.
Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents
Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Transcript of "Accompt of the Expence of my Ffaither`s Ffuneralls", transcribed by James Masterton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5599
Dates:
1717.
Two letters, 1845, of James Lindsay, Lord Balcarres, to John Riddell.
File
Identifier: Acc.11933
Scope and Contents
Concerns Riddell`s work on the Crawford peerage case and the fee thought appropriate for this. Includes a printed memoir, circa 1862, of Riddell by Lord Lindsay.
Dates:
circa 1845-1862.
Typescript account of captivity in France as a prisoner of war by David Band, seaman, Crail.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10054
Dates:
1809.
Typescript copy of "A Soldier`s Story" by Captain Gregor Macdonald, Queen`s Own Cameron Highlanders.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12532
Dates:
2nd half of 20th century.
Typescript copy of Lieutenant John G Crabbe`s experiences in the Battle of Marne, 1914.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11460
Dates:
circa 1918-1961.
Typescript copy of unpublished autobiography of Sir George Paget Thomson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14524
Scope and Contents
Autobiographical memoir written for private circulation, covering Sir George Thomson's childhood; education; experiences and military and scientific postings during the First and Second World Wars; research and work on electron diffraction; role as the Scientific Adviser to the British Delegation to the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations, 1946-47; professional appointments and publications; leisure international visits and holidays after 1945; and the life and work of his father,...
Dates:
1966.
Typescript memoir by Dugald Malcolm concerning Neill and John Malcolm, 13th and 14th of Poltalloch.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10775
Dates:
1991
Typescript memoir entitled "Some Private Recollections of a Base Wallah 1914-1919" by Colonel Charles Louis Spencer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12284
Dates:
? 1933.
Typescript memoir of the "Bathgate Spade and Shovel Forge", by William Wolfe.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11824
Dates:
1999.
Typescript memoir of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 by Dr Iain Gordon Brown.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13822
Dates:
?2015-?2016
Typescript of a novel and a memoir of Colin Mackay.
File
Identifier: Acc.12540
Scope and Contents
Includes related letters to Heather Scott.
Dates:
2003.
Typescript of B N Lahiri, "Leaves from a Policeman`s Diary".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8122
Dates:
circa 1950.
Typescript of Donald Fraser's 'Memoirs of an Unsuccessful Revolutionary', with biographical notes and a chronological index.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13176
Scope and Contents
Typescript memoirs of Donald Fraser (1904-1956), Scottish politician and a leading member of the Common Wealth Party. The memoris are incomplete as a result of Fraser`s premature death in 1956. They chart his early life, professional activities and his involvement in inter-war politics, particularly the ILP and the Common Wealth Party that had been founded by the Liberal MP Sir Richard Acland in 1942 to contest by-elections against reactionary candidates. The manuscript biographical notes...
Dates:
Circa 1955.
Typescript of "Lt Colonel William Cleland", a memoir by W L Cleland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9938
Dates:
1989.