Memoirs.
Found in 366 Collections and/or Records:
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
Copy, eighteenth century, of "My Lord Balcarras’s memoirs anent the Revolution in the year 1688, by way of a letter to His Majesty King James the VIIth", 1690., 1690.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Copy, eighteenth century, of the first part of the 'Memoirs of the life and actions of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiele', 1733-1737, by John Drummond., 1733-1737.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Copy, eighteenth century, of the 'Memoirs of the life and actions of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiele', 1733-1737, by John Drummond., 1733-1737.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Copy, eighteenth century, of the second part of the 'Memoirs of the life and actions of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiele', 1733-1737, by John Drummond., 1733-1737.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Copy in 5 volumes of corrected typescripts of journalism and broadcasts of Janet Teissier du Cros (nee Grierson); with copy of unpublished family memoir by Molly Dickins (nee Grierson).
Copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, minister of Culross.
This copy begins with the author`s preface, omitting the letter of dedication to Thomas Ross, and breaks off at the end of chapter 8. It contains a small amount of biographical material which does not appear in the published version.
The name William Lindsay, Letham, Dunnichen, appears on folio 1.
Copy, made in 1702, of letters and memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury (?1640-1692), concerning the campaigns in Scotland in 1689-1690, and in Ireland in 1691.
Copy of ‘An Account of the Lord`s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications` , being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, wife of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, written apparently in or about 1711, the date of the latest events recorded.
This copy, one of three known, which was written in a near-contemporary hand, appears to have lost all after page 74: the remainder is supplied on different sheets written in an apparently late 18th-century hand.
Copy of Claire Chevrillon-Fabre, "Cinq Années de Souvenir".
An account of life in France under the German occupation, 1939-1944.
Copy of James Loch, "Memoir of George Granville, late Duke of Sutherland" (1834).
With papers and letters, 1832-1833, mostly concerning the erection of memorials to the Duke.
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
Copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
Copy of typescript of "G S Fraser: A Memoir" by Paddy Fraser.
Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.
Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.
Corrected typescript of Greville MacDonald, "The Story of a Sinn Feiner"
Corrected typescripts of Malcolm Slesser, "Red Peak: a Personal Account of the British-Soviet Pamir Expedition 1962" (London, 1964).
With three published works of Slesser.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin, and George Robert Gleig, author of ‘The Subaltern’.
Also included is some correspondence of Sir Henry George Ward, a connection of Henry J S Bailey's family, and of Bailey himself.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly undated, of the family of Forbes of Culloden., [1625-1800.]
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes., 1714-1782, undated.
Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes (1692-1751) was MP for Haddington Burghs, 1722-1734, and Auditor-General of the Exchequer, 1721-1751. He married Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington in 1725.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchanan, 'Glasguensis', and papers collected by him, dealing almost exclusively with the history of Glasgow and district., 1759-1899.
Correspondence and papers of the younger children of Sir James Dalrymple., 1752-1808, undated.
Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes (1692-1751) was MP for Haddington Burghs, 1722-1734, and Auditor-General of the Exchequer, 1721-1751. He married Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington in 1725.