Autobiographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Biographies of individuals written by themselves.
Found in 201 Collections and/or Records:
Other literary works of George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1953]-[?1963], undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26964-26969
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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:
[?1953]-[?1963], undated.
Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14323-14400
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers of and concerning James Nasmyth., 1861-2002.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42502-42506
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1861-2002.
Papers of George Smith relating chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine', and of books published by Smith, Elder and Company., 1860-1901.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23185-23192
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.
Dates:
1860-1901.
Papers of Janet Adam Smith relating to her autobiography., 1914-1998, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/72-77
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1914-1998, undated.
Papers of Muriel Spark, relating to her autobiography., Circa 1953-1992, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/190-280
Papers relating to ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, the autobiography of John Dover Wilson., 1963-[1969, or before].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14370-14372
Dates:
1963-[1969, or before].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Papers relating to ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, the autobiography of John Dover Wilson, and miscellaneous personal papers.
Papers relating to ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, the autobiography of John Dover Wilson, and miscellaneous personal papers., 1938-1968, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14370-14375
Papers relating to William Anderson, missionary in Jamaica and Calabar., 1841-1893.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8943-8951
Part of a manuscript related to 'The king my father's death' by Sydney Durward Tremayne., ?1972.
File
Identifier: MS.26697
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains chapters 1, 6-8, 19-23 and 26-30; also (folio 98) notes and odd sheets of text.
Dates:
?1972.
Partial manuscripts and typescripts of 'Carrying on with a broken back: postscript to a poet's autobiography' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [1943, or before]-[1955, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27041
Scope and Contents
Begun as the foreword to ‘Lucky poet’, it became an essay on the problems of splitting up the work and other topics. The essay was not published in its entirety, but folios 59-68 were used in ‘Francis George Scott’ (Edinburgh, 1955).
Dates:
[1943, or before]-[1955, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Books of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Photocopies of autobiographical notebooks of Hew Morrison., ca. 1930.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14317/9-11
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of three autobiographical accounts of Hew Morrison, made with the permission of Morrison's descendants, the donors. Two are written by hand in notebooks, the third is in the form of type-written sheets. All accounts are undated, but were written late in his life.
Dates:
ca. 1930.
Portions of an autobiography of John Stuart Blackie, published as ‘Notes of a life’, followed by other biographical notes, journals, and reminiscences., 1837-1893, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2645
Dates:
1837-1893, undated.
'Private notices' of Thomas Murray, author of 'The literary history of Galloway'., 1840, 1849.
File
Identifier: MS.184
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Reminiscences of a Journey’ to London, 19 May 1840. Murray went from Edinburgh via Glasgow to Liverpool by coach and thence by rail to London, where he visited J R McCulloch, the economist. Pages 35-51 (the end) contain a long account of his friend.(ii) ‘Personal Narrative, with a collateral account of some eminent and interesting men’ (including Thomas Carlyle), 1849 (other end of the volume, with an alternative version of the...
Dates:
1840, 1849.
Prose works of Joseph Macleod., 1921-1981, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10590/16-69
'Random Memories', being Robert Louis Stevenson's rough draft of the beginning of an autobiographical work, with a typed transcript., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 304-311
Scope and Contents
Robert Louis Stevenson speaks of his birth in Edinburgh, and describes a visit made to Homburg when he was twelve.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book I: 'Gibraltar, England, Toulon', containing chapters 1-2., July 1783-May 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.1836
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see...
Dates:
July 1783-May 1793.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book II: 'Toulon', containing chapters 3-5, with a map., June-December 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.1837
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see...
Dates:
June-December 1793.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book III: 'Hieres Bay, Elba, Corsica, St Florenzo', containing chapters 6-9., December 1793-May 1794.
Item
Identifier: MS.1838
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see...
Dates:
December 1793-May 1794.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book IV: 'Corsica, Bastia, Calvi, Corte, Bastia', containing chapters 10-13., May 1794-February 1795.
File
Identifier: MS.1839
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see...
Dates:
May 1794-February 1795.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book V: 'Corsica, Bastia, Corte', containing chapters 14-16., February 1795-October 1796.
File
Identifier: MS.1840
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see...
Dates:
February 1795-October 1796.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book VI: "Elba, Porto, Ferajo, Naples, Gibraltar, Battle off St. Vincent's", containing chapters 17-18., October 1796-March 1797.
File
Identifier: MS.1841
Scope and Contents
Includes the printed ‘Narrative’ of the battle of Cape St Vincent, which Colonel Drinkwater published anonymously in 1797, followed by the manuscript on which he based the matter, on pages 77-97, in the second edition, 1840.
Dates:
October 1796-March 1797.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797., [1797, or after.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1836-1842
Scope and Contents
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see...
Dates:
[1797, or after.]
Recollections of events in the life of Mary E Haldane from 1850 until about 1860, concerning her marriage and the birth of her older children, written in her own hand between 1919 and 1922, with a few later additions and alterations., 1919-1922.
Item
Identifier: MS.20150
Scope and Contents
The volume continues the account started in MS.20149.
Dates:
1919-1922.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
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Diaries and notebooks of Mary E Haldane.
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Notebooks of Mary E Haldane chiefly containing travel and autobiographical writings.
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Account of the life of Mary E Haldane.
‘Some of the incidents of my military life', undated, by the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14808
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
19th century.