Reminiscences.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Common-place book containing a collection of verse transcripts and reminiscences relating chiefly to Frasers and Roses, with some of the writings or compositions of Forbes and Culloden and John Roy Stewart, written by Peter Rose.
Copy, circa 1842, of 'Days of auld lang syne': reminiscences of life and manners in Ayrshire, chiefly in Beith and the surrounding country, 1780, by the Reverend Dr John Mitchell, Minister of Wellington Street Secession Church, Glasgow.
Correspondence and papers of Margaret O W Oliphant and others.
The collection consists of letters of and to and papers of Margaret Oliphant and members of her family (MSS.23209-23211), her bank pass-book (MS.23212), diaries (MSS.23213-23216) and manuscripts of two of her works (MSS.23217-23219).
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.
Microfilm of chiefly letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
Microfilm of letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh; and notebook of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, containing reminiscences of Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Microfilm of notebook of J B S Morritt containing reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott, written in 1832.
Notebook, number 13 of a series, of James Skene.
Most of the contents are theological, but there are reminiscences about James Skene’s family, the death of his wife, and the visit of the Prince of Wales to Oxford in 1863.
Oral history interviews conducted by David W. Lyle as research for his writings on the history of the town of St Andrews
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
‘Relics of Correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, Explanatory Notes, and other Reminiscences, by J. Skene, Edinburgh, 1833’.
Reminiscences and notes concerning the Moir family Bible which had belonged to Charles I.
Two copies, slightly differing in wording, of reminiscences, written by the engineer Robert Stevenson in 1850, of Sir Walter Scott's northern cruise in the lighthouse yacht in 1814.
The reminiscences include incidents of the cruise not recorded by Sir Walter Scott in his journal of it, later episodes relating to Scott, and some general facts about Orkney and Shetland. Most of these last are used by Robert Louis Stevenson in his ‘Records of a Family of Engineers’, 1912.
Typescript "Memories of the Advocates' Library" by William K Dickson, formerly Keeper of the Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
With a copy of William K Dickson’s ‘The National Library of Scotland', in ‘Juridical Review’, volume xl (1928), and a paper on the author by A A Grainger Stewart, ‘Scots Law Times’, December 1905 (both printed).