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:
‘Memoir of Mrs Traill’, written in 1842 by Thomas Stewart Traill being a biography of his wife, Christian Robertson, who died in that year., 1842.
Item
Identifier: MS.19391
Scope and Contents
, Thomas Stewart Traill also narrates current events such as the cholera epidemic of 1832 and its effect on Liverpool, and important happenings in the lives of other members of the family such as his own visit to Spain of 1814 (see MSS.19388-19389).
Dates:
1842.
Memoir of Sir Francis Grant "in his studio for the last time" by Sir George Scharf.
File
Identifier: Acc.11545
Scope and Contents
Includes anecdote and notes on Grant`s technique.
Dates:
1878.
'Memoir of Sir John Gilmour of Craigmiller, Knight' by John Philp Wood., ?1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.5272
Memoir of the family of Hastie of Bogohaugh and of John Hastie, written by William Hastie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10886
Dates:
1726-1728.
“Memoir of the military state of North Britain in 1803, By Colonel Alex : Dirom, Deputy Quarter Master General of His Majesty’s Forces in North Britain, F.R.S., London and Edin.”
Item
Identifier: MS.1754
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a description of the state of Scottish defences, with criticisms, and suggestions for improvements in the possibility of invasion.
Dates:
1803.
Memoir of Victor Amyot, with correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with Victor and Alexandre Amyot and others., 1794-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.11217
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Victor Amyot, ‘Exposé de ma conduite pendant la Revolution’, dated Portoferraio, 15 April 1794 (folio l). Amyot had been commissaire de la marine at Brest, whence he arrived at Paris in April 1792. The memoir gives an account of his experiences in Paris, his journey to Provence, and his flight from Toulon on its capture by Republican forces. Amyot was subsequently employed by the 1st Earl in Corsica, and he then went to London on the evacuation of the island...
Dates:
1794-1807.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto concerning Toulon and Corsica.
'Memoir on the defence of India', by David Hopkins, Bengal Medical Service, addressed to the President of the Board of Control., 8 April 1808.
Item
Identifier: MS.11720
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.
Dates:
8 April 1808.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
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Memoir and miscellaneous papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
'Memoir respecting the office of Auditor of Excise in Scotland', by John Philp Wood, 1827., 1797-1827, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3106
Scope and Contents
Inserted at the end are: memorial of John Philp Wood, 1806 (page 177); copy of report of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland to H M Treasury on the office of Auditor of Excise, 1812 (page 179); account of the establishment of the Auditor's office in 1797, by Wood, 1821 (page 185); account of sums recovered and saved for the Revenue by Wood, undated (page 187); history of the office, by Wood, with copies of correspondence relating to previous auditors, undated (page 195); copy of patent...
Dates:
1797-1827, undated.
“Memoire sur le Bourbonnois, les Rois, princes, princesses et anciens Seigneurs de l’auguste Maison de Bourbon, du Chateau de la ville et des Eaux Minéralles de Bourbon l’Archambault composé par le Sʳ Godin ancient Maire lieutenant General de police a Bourbon l’Archambault."
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.2
Dates:
18th century.
‘Memoires sur la Reformation de Geneve, tires des Registres publies depuis 1526 jusques à 1536.’
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.2
Dates:
1526-1536.
Memoirs and photograph albums of Lieutenant Colonel William Burton Stewart, army officer and politician.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13934/1-10
Content Description
Four volumes containing the unpublished handwritten memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel William Burton Stewart, circa 1916-1936, along with three volumes of typescript copies of the memoirs, and two family photograph albums, circa 1898-1919. The memoirs cover Stewart’s life from his birth in Glasgow in 1872, his schooling at Loretto, Edinburgh, education at Brasenose, Oxford, and subsequent travels with Malcolm Pilkington. The friends travelled widely, including India, China, Japan and...
Dates:
1898-1936
‘Memoirs’ by James Erskine, Lord Grange.
Item
Identifier: MS.1008
Scope and Contents
The memoirs consist chiefly of religious communings, but contain some mention of the writer, James Erskine's temporal activities, particularly in connection with the Jacobite movement and his brother, the Earl of Mar.
Dates:
3 May 1726-30 January 1727.
Memoirs by John Y Gray, Sir Alexander Gray's father, of his family in Angus, titled, 'My Kith and Kin', with later additions., [Circa 1916.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26016
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:
[Circa 1916.]
Memoirs, compiled ?1905-?1907, of John M'Kie, Fleet Engineer (circa 1820-1915).
Series
Identifier: MSS.24632-24636
Scope and Contents
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, 1846-1847, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
File
Identifier: MS.24633
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, ?1848-1853, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
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Identifier: MS.24634
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, 1854-1862, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
File
Identifier: MS.24635
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, ?1862-1871, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
File
Identifier: MS.24636
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, circa 1825-1846, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
File
Identifier: MS.24632
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
'Memoirs of a short tour through part of the Netherlands in the year 1733'., 1733.
Item
Identifier: MS.2146
Scope and Contents
The route was through the present Flanders and Northern France.
Dates:
1733.
'Memoirs of Alexander Dalrymple, Esq., FRS, Hydrographer to the Admiralty and the Hon. the East India Company', anonymous, written after Dalrymple's death in 1808., 1808.
Item
Identifier: MS.25292
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1808.
Memoirs of Ann Anderson, a nurse in Australia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11468
Scope and Contents
Includes documents and letters of and concerning Ann Anderson.
Memoir published in 1992.
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns in Spain, 1808, Netherlands, 1809, and the Peninsular War, 1812-1813.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23629-23631
Dates:
1808-1813.
Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns on the Peninsula., 1812-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23630-23631
Scope and Contents
The memoirs record James Stirling`s involvement in the Peninsular War campaign in Spain from 1 April 1812 to 11 November 1813. Included are descriptions of the towns and villages visited during the campaign, and details of British army troop movements.
Also included at the back of both volumes are lists of the places visited and cumulative totals of the distances travelled by the army during its deployment.
Dates:
1812-1813.
`Memoirs, of [Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of] campaigns on the Peninsula from 1st April 1812`., 1812.
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Identifier: MS.23630
Scope and Contents
The volume contains an account of the Battle of Salamanca, 22 July 1812, and a detailed description of 42nd Royal Highlanders stationing in Valladolid.Contained at the start of the memoirs is a map of Spain and Portugal highlighting geographical regions, and an engraving of the Duke of Wellington.There are four pages of sketches contained in the volume depicting the native Spaniards and their dress. Included at the back of the volume is a list of the...
Dates:
1812.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns in Spain, 1808, Netherlands, 1809, and the Peninsular War, 1812-1813.
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Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns on the Peninsula.