Showing Browse Resources: 1 - 5 of 5
Autobiography and diaries of foreign travel, circa 1953-1979, of Helen Henderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8867
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of poetry, circa 1890, of William Constable (originals now destroyed).
Dates:
circa 1890, circa 1953-1979.
Microfilm of autobiography, 1858, and journal, 1838-1839, of George Combe.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.745
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Journal, 1838-1839, of George Combe while in America (MS.7416);
Journal, 1839, of George Combe while in America (MS.7417);
Autobiography, 1858, of George Combe (MSS.7433-7434).
Dates:
1838-1839, 1858.
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.
Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26941-26972
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1951-1970, undated.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
File
Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents
This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates:
1765, 1800, 1819.