Biographies.
Found in 520 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Johnston family., Circa 1796-1920, undated.
Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
'Personal history and associations of Sir Walter Scott', by Helen J M Russell of Ashiesteel, in typescript and the author's autograph., Mid 19th century.
Photocopies of biography, 1603, of James VI and I, (Archiviolo b. 208, ff 12) and two other documents.
Includes:
instructions, 1538, to a Papal nuncio on visiting Scotland (Archiviolo b. 158, ff 323-324)
letter, 1593, of James VI to the King of Poland concerning the Grand Duke of Tuscany (Scaffalatura 69/51/23).
Photocopies of the Ceol Beag of Duncan Campbell.
With biographical material.
Photocopy, 1969, of Peter Kane, "Catholic Socialist".
Biographcial sketch of John Wheatley.
With four photographs, 1930, of Wheatley`s funeral.
Photocopy of corrected typescript of Malcolm MacDonald`s "Ronald Stevenson: a Musical Biography".
Photocopy of entry on James Ramsay MacDonald in the `Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals`, with a postcard of him., Undated.
Photocopy of typescript biography of Edwin Sargood Fry.
Photocopy of typescript monograph of James M Alston, "Charles Alston (1685-1760), Professor of Medicine and Botany at Edinburgh".
Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.
Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.
Poems and letters of the author and journalist William Henry ('Will H') Ogilvie (1869-1963); with photocopies of letters of his wife, Katherine, and other related papers. Included incorrectly is the typescript of "My mither's aunt and other verses" by William Ogilvie (1891-1939), Edinburgh architect.
Poems, prose pieces and music by various authors collected by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1942-1978, undated.
Many may have been sent to Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ for his opinion. A substantial number are unsigned and many are incomplete. They include part of a biography of John MacLean by James Maxton (folio 116), a chapter on the Celtic background of Scottish literature (folio 181), and part of an interview with MacDiarmid by Alexander Scott (folio 227).
Printed biographical notices of Persian statesmen and notables., 1906, 1910.
'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant., [1880, or after.]
This copy is wanting pages 31-32. It has fuller annotations than MS.17925.
Proceedings, lists and other papers relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
Proof copy of Dorothy Haig, "The Man I Knew".
Containing numerous passages crossed through or corrected with typed past-overs.
Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto., [1874, or before.]
The proofs are heavily corrected throughout by the author and others.
Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto., [1874, or before.]
The proofs are heavily corrected throughout by the author and others.
Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto., [1874, or before.]
The proofs are heavily corrected throughout by the author and others.
Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto, apparently an earlier version in larger format of the ‘Life and Letters’ as eventually published in 1874., [1874, or before.]
The proofs are heavily corrected throughout by the author and others.
Prose works of Joseph Macleod., 1921-1981, undated.
Reel-to-reel audiotapes of the master sound tracks, with transcripts, to three films, on Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean, and Eric Linklater, produced by Films of Scotland.
Reel-to-reel sound recording of the audio from a television programme concerning John Buchan, 'Man of Parts'.
The container has a typescript label affixed, 'Sound tape: John Buchan, Man of parts'.