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Memoirs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Narratives or histories autobiographical in nature or stressing the author's personal experience of the events.

Found in 366 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Henry Craik, with correspondents with surnames from J-W., 1865-1926.

 File
Identifier: MS.7175
Scope and Contents

At the end of the volume are some miscellaneous papers relating to Sir Henry Craik, including a memoir of a meeting with Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in 1891.

Dates: 1865-1926.

Diary, two letters and typescript reminiscences of Sergeant Harry Hawthorne, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12568
Scope and Contents Lance Sergeant Harry Hawthorne served in the 5th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borders during World War II. He was made a prisoner of War in early February 1945 and released by British troops on 2 May 1945. This small collection contains some correspondence and several manuscript and typescript extracts from his diary, which provide an insight into his experiences during the war.Contains the following:1. Letter from Major A.D. Macdonald, C.C. D. Company, 5th...
Dates: 1945, [circa 1980-1989], undated.

Draft and notes towards the autobiography of Lady Lucinda Mackay, entitled 'My Life as an Artist', 2022

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.50838-MS.50839
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains correspondence, ephemera, research notes, and personal photograph albums documenting Lucinda Mackay's family life, from birth to the present day. It also includes preparatory drafts and notes towards an as-yet-unpublished memoir entitled 'My Life as an Artist.'

Dates: 2022

Draft memoir of the life of Jasvant Rao Holkar., [Circa 1821.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.13834
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates: [Circa 1821.]

Family Papers of Lucinda Mackay, 1941-2022

 Series
Identifier: MSS.50828-50839
Scope and Contents

This series contains correspondence, ephemera, research notes, and personal photograph albums documenting Lucinda Mackay's family life, from birth to the present day. It also includes preparatory drafts and notes towards an as-yet-unpublished memoir entitled 'My Life as an Artist.'

Dates: 1941-2022

Family papers of Sir Alexander Gray., 19th century-mid 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26015-26018
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.

Dates: 19th century-mid 20th century.

"Fifty Years a Reader: Memories of the National Library" by Donald Whyte.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11871
Scope and Contents

Includes bibliography of works written from research in the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: circa 2000.

"Forty Years Ago" a manuscript memoir by Alexander Simpson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11916
Scope and Contents

Describes life in Johnshaven and Benholm, Kincardineshire.

Dates: circa 1920-1965.

Genealogical and other papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux., 1742-1801, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.25170
Scope and Contents

The papers include a supposed memoir, 'Histoire de Mr Le Grand', submitted to the ‘Lady's Magazine’ (folios 18, 12) and notes on Scottish history with particular reference to the Grant family (folio 29).

Dates: 1742-1801, undated.

'Genealogical Memoirs of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun' and of related families., [Circa 1780.]

 File
Identifier: MS.17859
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: [Circa 1780.]

'Historical notices of Guzerat and a life of Jaswant Rao Holkar'., [Circa 1821.]

 File
Identifier: MS.13833
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes (pages 73 and 337) extracts from a history of Gujarat by Ali Mahommed Khan, Diwan of Ahmedabad, in a translation by S A Greenwood (see MS.13916 and the ‘Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum’, volume 1, pages 288-289).

The volume also contains (page 173) extracts from the life of Sultan Ghiass ul dein Khilchee, Emperor of Malwa, in the Tubruckat Ackberi, see MS.13915, and (page 193) a memoir of the life of Jaswant Rao Holkar.

Dates: [Circa 1821.]

'History of the Clan Chisholm, being genealogical and historical memoirs of the chiefs and cadets of this ancient Highland family'., 1840-1860, undated

 Item
Identifier: MS.3570
Scope and Contents

References on folios 41 and 81 show that the manuscript was written in 1840. More recent additions in another hand are made at intervals, one on folio 48 verso referring to a date in 1860. There are indexes on folios 138-143.

Dates: 1840-1860, undated

Incomplete, marked proofs, 'A contemporary narrative of events connected with [=Contemporary account of] the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also an account of the destruction of Lord Byron`s memoirs', by John Cam Hobhouse., 1870.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42299
Scope and Contents The arrangement of these parts differs from the final edition in that the appendix follows the account of the destruction of the memoirs, although there is a manuscript note on it advising that is should follow page 182 of the finished volume.The proofs for this work are annotated throughout. The proofs want everything from page ix to page 176. They comprise therefore of:the title page and part of a preface: folios 1-4;five pages of the account...
Dates: 1870.

Incomplete 'Memoirs of a long life of 4 score years', by George Robert Gleig, but not in his hand., 1886.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3872
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Also included is some correspondence of Sir Henry George Ward, a connection of Henry J S Bailey's family, and of Bailey himself.

Dates: 1886.