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 189 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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 Elizabeth Grant, "Memoirs of a Highland Lady"
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9214
Dates:
1845.
Manuscript of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26974-26976
Scope and Contents
The memoir was not published, but twenty copies were circulated in typescript.
Dates:
[1987.]
Manuscript of Moray McLaren, "Return to Scotland: an Egoist`s Journey".
Item
Identifier: Acc.3580
Dates:
circa 1964.
Manuscripts and typescripts of "Right, Left" (1948), "An Early Education" (1947) and "Dry Fun" (published as part of "Innocent Merriment", 2004) by Thomas Blantyre Simpson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12452
Scope and Contents
Includes associated correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1946-1994.
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Manuscripts of two apparently unpublished genealogical works by John Philp Wood.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5271-5272
Dates:
1830.
Material connected with the ‘Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, Knt., Engraver ... and of his brother-in-law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes’, by James Dennistoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2898-2902
Dates:
1836-1855, undated.
Memoir and journal of a tour to Italy of Charlotte Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.8110
Dates:
1789-1800.
Memoir, circa 1950, of Patricia Baker "Some Personal Memories of the National Library of Scotland, 1930-1945".
File
Identifier: Acc.9060
Scope and Contents
With photograph of the staff in 1931, and photographs of the demolition of the Sheriff Court Building in 1938.
Dates:
1931-circa 1950.
Memoir of Alastair Shanks, "Rev Vera Kenmure of Christchurch".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8523
Dates:
1978.
Memoir of George Romanes in the form of a letter to his son Professor George Romanes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12749
Scope and Contents
Memoir covers some Romanes family history, George Romanes` early life in Edinburgh, his early work as a civil engineer in Egypt and Calgary and war service with the Royal Engineers from 1917-1919. Includes transcript.
Dates:
1957.
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 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.
“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