Biographies.
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
Draft memoir of Hugh Miller, geologist, possibly by his son.
Draft memoir, ca. 1880, of Hugh Miller, geologist, possibly by his son Hugh Miller; with photograph possibly of Hugh Miller the younger.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
Duplicated typescript of `McAlpine`, an unpublished biography of Robert McAlpine by Compton Mackenzie. With some photographs of the McAlpine family.
Essays (historical and other), biographies, reminiscences, and other works by John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Advocate.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Fair copy of the text printed as ‘Memoirs of the secret services of John Macky’, without the introduction.
Fragments of a life of Sir William Wallace (folio 1) and of notes (folios 17, 19) relating to another, unidentified life, possibly an edition of Blind Harry`s ‘Wallace’, by Richard Augustine Hay.
The manuscript is undated, but from a reference to ‘the late Mr Lockhart of Carnwath’ (folio 29 verso), it seems that the notes at least were written probably in 1732; the life may have been written about the same time.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, concerning his research and non-parliamentary interests.
Greek poetry; a volume consisting of three printed books, with manuscript notes and annotations in Latin in an 18th-century hand.
'Instructions to Master David Erskine by his Father The Earl of Buchan 29 March 1784'.
The instructions were drawn up by the Earl of Buchan when his son (afterwards Sir David Erskine) entered Mr de Ribouville's Academy, Old Cavendish Street, London. Before the precepts, the Earl gives a brief account of his son's life up to that date. He gives the date of his birth as December 1771 (not 1772, as in the Dictionary of National Biography).
Letter of Viscount Elibank, enclosed in a presentation copy of his "Memorials of Sir Gideon Murray" (Edinburgh, 1932).
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
'Life of John McDiarmid, poet, journalist, & author, by A.J. Armstrong. From manuscript’, being a typescript account, undated, of the owner and editor of the ‘Dumfries and Galloway Courier’, probably by Andrew J Armstrong, author of Galloway novels and poems.
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volumes i-iii, v, and ix (ii and ix being of the second edition), by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand.
The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).
‘Life of Sir William Lockhart, 1621-1675’ by Alexander Robertson: author's draft, based on material in the Public Record Office, London.
Literary papers and correspondence of Henry Mackenzie.
Includes manuscript of, notes for and letters, circa 1810, 1812-1821, concerning Mackenzie`s "Life of Home". With manuscript page, undated, of "Douglas" by John Home and a diary, circa 1803, of Home`s journey to Bath with David Hume in 1776.
Literary works of Margaret Hamilton Noël-Paton (born 1896), grand-daughter of Sir Joseph Noël-Paton, the painter.
Lives of the bishops of Skálholt and Hólar by Jón Haldórsson, minister in Hitardal, Iceland, 1692-1736.
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 33. Jonæ Halthorii Vitæ Episcoporum Islandiæ Tom. I and No. 34 Tom. II.`
Manuscript and typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "Robert Louis Stevenson. The Unique Author".
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.
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.
Manuscript of the 'Life of Henry Dundas, Lord Melville' by John Philp Wood, in the author’s hand.
The last date mentioned, on folio 464 verso, is 1830.
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.
Manuscript, probably Scottish, of the 'Vitae Caesarum’ of Suetonius.
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.