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:
Inscribed copy of George S Robertson, "Reminiscences of an Orkney Nonagenarian" (1977).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10199
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter of Robertson.
Dates:
1977.
"Interrupted Odyssey", an unpublished memoir of Henry Curran.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12620
Scope and Contents
Memoir describes Curran`s time as an engine-room boy on a Norwegian tanker in an Atlantic convoy of 1942, and his six week imprisonment in Galveston, Texas, after jumping ship.
Dates:
circa 2006.
John Murray Family Papers., 1877-1996
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13328/1696-1699
Scope and Contents
This brief series contains examples of the personal writing of John Murray IV, alongside a small number of letters sent to Murray from various correspondents including Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth; Henry Scott Holland, Professor of Divinity, Oxford University; Alexander Smith Kinnear, Baron Kinnear; Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys; and Mary Mackay, calling herself Marie Corelli. A small folder entitled "Family Papers" concludes this series, having been...
Dates:
1877-1996
Journal of Morley Jamieson and manuscript of his "Echoes and Eccentrics: a Personal Account of Bookselling 1942-1966"
File
Identifier: Acc.8878
Dates:
1961-1984.
Journals and autobiographical notes, with transcriptions., 1902-1946
Series
Identifier: Acc.14377/1-8
Content Description
From the Collection:
The collection contains journals and some other papers of David Stephen (1869-1946), organist and composer in Dundee, Arbroath and St Andrews, and from 1903 music director of the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Dates:
1902-1946
Journals and other papers of David Wilson Bogie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13267
Scope and Contents
The papers include a memoir of David Bogie`s time at George Watson`s College, an account of the Law Faculty at Edinburgh University and memorials of: the Faculty of Advocates; the Court of Session in the 1970s, and also of the Shrieval Bench in Aberdeen. The papers are accompanied by notes by Alan Bell, Bogie`s unofficial literary executor.
Dates:
1960-1999.
Later draft and final manuscript version of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson., [1987.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26975-26976
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoir was not published, but twenty copies were circulated in typescript.
Dates:
[1987.]
Later draft of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson., [1987.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26975
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoir was not published, but twenty copies were circulated in typescript.
Dates:
[1987.]
Lawrence Crawford, "A Brief Recollection of Passages in My Lord of Manchester`s Army", circa 1643, with annotated transcript, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.5002
Dates:
circa 1643, circa 1840-circa 1845.
Leaves found loose in MSS.1836-1841: 'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, bound together., [1783-1797.]
File
Identifier: MS.1842
Scope and Contents
References have been made from the loose leaf to the place where it was found and vice versa.
Included is a printed memoir of Colonel Drinkwater (folio 1).
Dates:
[1783-1797.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
Letters and papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux, chiefly of a personal nature., 1676-1824, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25166
Scope and Contents
The letters and papers include copies of Charles Grant's correspondence, 1780-1785, with an unidentified lady (Adelaide de R-, who later became a countess) with whom he had an affair; part of his diary kept while travelling in Normandy and Brittany in 1780 (folio 26); a long letter, recounting his family history and memoirs, 1785 (folio 165); and miscellaneous letters concerning his career.
Dates:
1676-1824, undated.
Letters and papers of various correspondents., 1579-1844.
File
Identifier: MS.3134
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous letters. Among the writers are:
The Earl of Mar, to Sir George Bowes, Marshal of Berwick, 1579 (number 1);
Edward Kellie, Receiver and Director of Music of the Chapel Royal, on arrangements made by him for services in Holyrood, 1632 (number 3); printed in Charles Rogers, ‘History of the Chapel Royal of Scotland’ (Grampian Club, 1882), page clxvi;
Nicolas Briot, making recommendations regarding the copper coinage of Scotland, 1631...
Dates:
1579-1844.
Letters and papers relating to Uganda; also containing photograph album, circa 1934, and a short memoir of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, relating to his time in Uganda., Circa 1934, 1951-1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/163
Dates:
Majority of material found within Circa 1934, 1951-1995.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Professional and business correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, containing some material on overseas travel.
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, relating to Africa, Uganda mostly.
‘Lettres et Memoires de Monsieur le Cardinal Mazarin à Messieurs le Tellier et de Lionne. Contenans le Secret de la Negociation de la Paix de Pyranées...’., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14784
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
17th century.
Literary papers, publications, photographs, memoirs and press cuttings of and concerning Edward Dwelly, Gaelic lexicographer, and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12052
Dates:
1864-1994.
"Long on Mud, Short on Glory", Florence Kaye`s typescript account of her time in the Scottish Women`s Land Army.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11662
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs
Dates:
Late 20th century.
Manuscript, 17th century, of the second part of ‘I.G.De Rebus ... sub imperio illustrissimi Jacobi Montisrosarum Marchionis ... anno MDCXLIV et duobus sequentibus praeclare gestis, commentarius’ by George Wishart.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.8
Scope and Contents
The beginning and end are missing.
Dates:
1644.
Manuscript, 17th century, of the second part of ‘I.G.De Rebus ... sub imperio illustrissimi Jacobi Montisrosarum Marchionis ... anno MDCXLIV et duobus sequentibus praeclare gestis, commentarius’ by George Wishart.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.16
Scope and Contents
Some corrections have been made and omissions supplied by another hand.
Dates:
1644-1646.
Manuscript draft of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8443
Dates:
1983.
Manuscript entitled 'Book of Memorandoms' by John Smith of Birkhill.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14273
Scope and Contents
The volume contains the memoirs of John Smith, a farmer. The memoirs include details of his work, family history, copies of letters, financial details relating to the farms, and various costs including those for funerals, furniture, and improvements. The memoirs narrate details of various members of the Smith family (such as details of births, marriages and deaths and the emigration of a brother to Jamaica), as well as the impact of world events on his life (such as...
Dates:
1806-1827.
Manuscript of 'A memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot' by the Countess of Minto, with considerable variations from the published text particularly in the later chapters., [1868, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19462
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Nina, Countess of Minto was the daughter of General Sir Thomas Hislop and granddaughter of Hugh Elliot. Lady Minto's papers reflect her wide ranging interests. She was the author of ‘A memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot’, of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751-1806’, and of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1807-14’. Her papers contain much material relating to these publications and also to her unpublished works....
Dates:
[1868, or before.]
Manuscript of 'A memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot' by the Countess of Minto, with considerable variations from the published text particularly in the later chapters., [1868, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19462 (part 1)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Nina, Countess of Minto was the daughter of General Sir Thomas Hislop and granddaughter of Hugh Elliot. Lady Minto's papers reflect her wide ranging interests. She was the author of ‘A memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot’, of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751-1806’, and of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1807-14’. Her papers contain much material relating to these publications and also to her unpublished works....
Dates:
[1868, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
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Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto.
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Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto.
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Manuscript of 'A memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot' by the Countess of Minto, with considerable variations from the published text particularly in the later chapters.