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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 189 Collections and/or Records:

Seven notebooks and a manuscript of Morley Jamieson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8004
Scope and Contents

Containing drafts of a memoir and associated short story.

Dates: 1980.

"Singapore and Afterwards", manuscript account of the fall of Singapore in 1942, by W D Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9948
Scope and Contents

With typed transcript, 1989.

Dates: circa 1943.

'The memoirs [and] reflections of Hr McNiell [of the Harp], written by himself', a manuscript copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50257
Scope and Contents The manuscript is in various hands.Title page, including an epigram, in Latin, of Cicero (folio iii).'Chap. I The Authors Parentage.' Information concerning MacNeill’s grandfather and father (pages 1-9).'Chap. II. An unfashionable picture of Domestic Life.' An account of the MacNeills’ domestic life at their home at Rosebank, near Roslin, and subsequently near Loch Lomond (pages 9-17).'Chap. 3d. Some account of the Author.' Information...
Dates: 1804, 1912.

Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents

Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.

Dates: 2nd half of 19th century.

Two letters, 1845, of James Lindsay, Lord Balcarres, to John Riddell.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11933
Scope and Contents

Concerns Riddell`s work on the Crawford peerage case and the fee thought appropriate for this. Includes a printed memoir, circa 1862, of Riddell by Lord Lindsay.

Dates: circa 1845-1862.

Typescript copy of unpublished autobiography of Sir George Paget Thomson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14524
Scope and Contents Autobiographical memoir written for private circulation, covering Sir George Thomson's childhood; education; experiences and military and scientific postings during the First and Second World Wars; research and work on electron diffraction; role as the Scientific Adviser to the British Delegation to the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations, 1946-47; professional appointments and publications; leisure international visits and holidays after 1945; and the life and work of his father,...
Dates: 1966.

Typescript of a novel and a memoir of Colin Mackay.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12540
Scope and Contents

Includes related letters to Heather Scott.

Dates: 2003.

Typescript of Donald Fraser's 'Memoirs of an Unsuccessful Revolutionary', with biographical notes and a chronological index.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13176
Scope and Contents Typescript memoirs of Donald Fraser (1904-1956), Scottish politician and a leading member of the Common Wealth Party. The memoris are incomplete as a result of Fraser`s premature death in 1956. They chart his early life, professional activities and his involvement in inter-war politics, particularly the ILP and the Common Wealth Party that had been founded by the Liberal MP Sir Richard Acland in 1942 to contest by-elections against reactionary candidates. The manuscript biographical notes...
Dates: Circa 1955.