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Biographies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.

Found in 520 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript of a biography of Sir Stamford Raffles by George Reith., [?1885-?1941.]

 Item
Identifier: Acc.3564/101
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1885-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith. / Works of George Reith intended for publication. / Notes for and a manuscript of a biography of Sir Stamford Raffles by George Reith.

Manuscript of a biography of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, by an unidentified author., Circa 1834.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42590
Scope and Contents

Watermark, 1834.

Dates: Circa 1834.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Manuscripts by unidentified authors.

Manuscript of Alexander Scott's biography of the poet William Soutar, 'Still life'., [1958, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26479
Scope and Contents

The manuscript differs considerably from the published version. It is written in a series of eighteen notebooks with continuous foliation, and includes a few notes on vocabulary by William Soutar (folio i).

Dates: [1958, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of work by Alexander Scott (1920-1989). / Manuscripts and duplicated typescript of the comedy 'Right Royal' by Alexander Scott.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19463-19466
Scope and Contents

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19463
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19463 (part 1)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19463 (part 2)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19464
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19464 (part 1)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19464 (part 2)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19465
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19465 (part 1)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19465 (part 2)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19466
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of part 3 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1943-1946, 1951-1957.

 File
Identifier: MS.50198
Scope and Contents Another copy of the manuscript, the typescript portions of which are carbon copies of those in MSS.50203-50204. Like the other copy this is a composite of articles in typescript and offprint arranged in the sequence in which they were to be published in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’. Each of the articles has been amended by Fairbairn in preparation for its inclusion in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’.Part 3.Amended offprint from...
Dates: 1943-1946, 1951-1957.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. / Lectures and articles of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. / Articles and lectures of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. / Draft manuscripts of `Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality`, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. / Draft manuscript of `Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality`, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.

Manuscript of 'Some Account of the Life of the late Colonel Hume Caldwell ... who was killed, in the 27th year of his age, in the Service of her Imperial Majesty [Maria Theresa], as he was conducting a sally from the Fortress of Schweidnitz [1762] ... To which are added Authenticated copies of some Original Papers relative to his Family'., 1775.

 File
Identifier: MS.5748
Scope and Contents

The 'Authenticated copies of Original Papers' chiefly concern Hume Cadwell's great-grandfather and his brother, Sir James Caldwell, 1st and 3rd Baronets of Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh. The work was written in 1775 for publication (see note on folio 17 verso), but is apparently unpublished.

Dates: 1775.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey. / Historical manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.

Manuscript of `The Lief of the Holy Kinge St Edwarde the Confessor translated into Englishe by G.L. accordinge to the wrytten copye thereof`, being a translation of the work by Ailred of Rievaulx.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.1
Scope and Contents

The work is preceded by a note on Ailred`s life and works, and is followed (folio 67) by a table of contents. The translator has noted a number of other sources for the history, such as John Bale, William of Malmesbury, and the Polychronicon; he has also made a few remarks, mostly opposing William Lambarde`s objections to the miracles, in the latter`s ‘Perambulation of Kent’.

Inside the front cover is the name Richard Chenery in a 17th-century hand.

Dates: 17th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript of the 'Life of Henry Dundas, Lord Melville' by John Philp Wood, in the author’s hand.

 Item
Identifier: MS.547
Scope and Contents

The last date mentioned, on folio 464 verso, is 1830.

Dates: [1830, or after.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript, possibly from Mount Athos, of St Dorotheus and the sermons of Isaias, with an account of the miracle performed by the Virgin at Blachernae.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.21
Scope and Contents (i) St Dorotheus: letter (folio 1; ‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’, ‘Auctarium’ 2116z, ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1613); beginning of life of St Dositheus, differing from the version below, folio 17 verso (folio 5); teachings 21 (folio 5 verso; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1812), 18 (folio 11; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1804, ‘Oeuvres spirituelles’, 504), 16 (folio 13 verso; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1793, ‘Oeuvres spirituelles’, 488); life of St Dositheus (folio 17 verso,...
Dates: Late 10th century-early 11th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript, probably Scottish, of the 'Vitae Caesarum’ of Suetonius.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.11
Scope and Contents

The final lines, ‘pro certo habuisse’ etc., are lost.

Before the text is placed without heading Ausonius, `Caesares` (XXI Monosticha 6-41 in Karl Schenkl`s edition), which is found in other 15th-century manuscripts of Suetonius, and a list of chapters.

Ornamental initials in blue and red.

Marginalia throughout in the hand of Archibald Whitelaw, secretary to James III.

Dates: Late 15th century
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript, "Short notes of the life of Horatio Walpole, youngest son of Sr. Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and of Catherine Shorter, his first wife", by an unidentified author., ? 1810-? 1840.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42597
Scope and Contents

The date of the watermark of the paper of the wrapper binding is 1810. The watermark of the paper of the manuscript itself is 1840. The manuscript is written in the first person and may, therefore, be a copy of a manuscript by Walpole.

Dates: ? 1810-? 1840.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Manuscripts by unidentified authors.

Manuscript, undated, and apparently unfinished, of a biography of Sir Charles Pasley by his grand-daughter Amelia Tyler., 19th century-early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.9879
Scope and Contents

The biography is concerned with Sir Charles Pasley's early career in the army from 1796, his war service in the Mediterranean, Denmark, and Walcharen, and his establishment and organisation of the Royal Engineer Establishment, 1812-1818. The narrative is composed largely from extensive excerpts from Pasley's diaries and correspondence.

The manuscript lacks chapter IX (original folios 223-272).

Dates: 19th century-early 20th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, draft biography, and family correspondence of General Sir Charles William Pasley (1780-1861), military engineer.

Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.12
Scope and Contents Most of the leaves are palimpsest, but the underwriting is illegible; it may be from the same manuscripts as that in Adv.MS.18.7.8 (pricking from the original manuscript survives on folios 3+6, 9, 16+23, 17+22, 26+29, 34+35, in one or both edges of the text-frame; the width of the ruled area was 172 millimetres in folios 3+6, 17+22, 26+29, 192 millimetres in folio 9.). See 'Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit d' Edinbourg', 33 and what follows.The contents of the manuscript are as...
Dates: Late 11th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscripts by Washington Irving, with some proofs of works by Irving., Circa 1829-1850.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42310-42315
Scope and Contents

Irving produced many popular and successful works throughout his writing career, most of which were published in Britain by John Murray. The manuscripts in this sequence relate to some of these works, including 'The Crayon Miscellany' and three volumes of 'A Chronicle of the conquest of Granada'. In addition, there is an incomplete manuscript for a review for the 'Quarterly Review', and a letter that contains a personal outline of his life up until 1837.

Dates: Circa 1829-1850.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Papers of and concerning Washington Irving.

Manuscripts of biographical articles for the 8th edition of the `Encyclopaedia Britannica` by Lord Macaulay.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11868
Scope and Contents

Essays on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and William Pitt

Dates: circa 1852-1859.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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