Autobiographies.
Found in 294 Collections and/or Records:
Early version of the ‘Autobiography’ of Richard Haldane., [?1927.]
Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.
Family papers of Sir Alexander Gray., 19th century-mid 20th century.
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.
File entitled, 'Brief life and words' of Michael M Stuart, containing brief autobiography and copies of published articles., Undated.
Papers of Michael Moncrieff Staurt, CIE OBE concerning his career in India and East Pakistan, 1927-1950, and his research into the Scottish Nabobs and other matters concerning the history of India, circa 1950-1986.
Final typescript of 'Boys do not kiss' by Sydney Durward Tremayne, with a few manuscript corrections., [1979, or before.]
In 1972 and following his move to Gairloch in 1976, Sydney Durward Tremayne was working on an autobiography which survives in several versions. It describes his childhood, his career in journalism, and his stormy relationship with his father; it also indicates the circumstances in which he wrote some of his poems.
First proof, "Sir A. Henry Layard G.C.B., D.C.L. : autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid" : "Chapter [VII]. Politics and art, 1851-69"., ? 1903.
Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.
The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.
Folder containing autobiographical writings, given to the BBC but not used., Undated.
Titles include: 'On the eve of freedom'; 'Partition'; and 'Dispensing with justice'.
Foreign Mission records of the United Presbyterian Church., 1841-1893.
Fragments of the manuscript of Henry Cockburn, "Memorials of His Time", with many unpublished and variant passages.
Further literary papers and correspondence of and relating to Gael Turnbull.
Galley proofs with manuscript corrections of ‘Lucky poet’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., 1943.
Hugh MacDiarmid originally submitted the text to a publisher in 1939 but was obliged to reduce its length very considerably. For his accounts of this, see his manuscript introduction (MS.27036, folio l, and what follows) and his prefaces to the editions of 1943 and 1972.
'Green days in forests. Some recollections and reflections of a timber merchant' by James Begg.
The author, James Begg, belonged to a Glasgow firm of saw millers.
Reproduced from typescript with a few manuscript corrections.
Heavily annotated typescript of ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, chapter VII onwards., [1969, or before.]
Heavily corrected typescript of ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, chapters I to VI., [1969, or before.]
Heavily corrected typescript of ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, corresponding more or less with the printed text., [1969, or before.]
Imperfect typescript of, with manuscript corrections and additions to ‘Lucky poet’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [?1942-?1943.]
As well as the text as published, it includes part of two chapters which were excised: 'The Condition of Scotland today' (folio 680) and 'My Best Friends' (folio 719). Much of the latter was later published in ‘Francis George Scott: an essay’ (Edinburgh, 1955). The versos of folios 323-400 passim have been used to compile an index.
Incomplete proofs, "Sir A. Henry Layard G.C.B., D.C.L. : autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid"., ? 1903.
Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.
The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.
Incomplete second proof, "Sir A. Henry Layard G.C.B., D.C.L. : autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid" : signatures A-I, K-U, X-Y, chapters I-VIII [part], pages [1]-352., ? 1903.
Incomplete third proof, "Sir A. Henry Layard G.C.B., D.C.L. : autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid" : signatures "Vol. II." A-I, chapters I-V [part], pages [1]-144., ? 1903.
The chapter headings are :
chapter I : "Letters from Baghdad and Persia 1840-42";
chapter II : "Western Turkey, and Sir Stratford Canning 1842";
chapter III : "Politics and society in Constantinople 1842-45";
chapter IV : "Politics and society in Constantinople - continued. 1843-1845";
chapter V : "Constantinople - Mission to Albania 1843-45".
Journals and an autobiography of Alexander Murray, a farmer of Blackhouse, Peterhead.
Journals and papers of David Stephen, composer and organist.
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.
'Leading Incidents in the Life of Colonel Drinkwater', down to 1833., [1833, or after.]
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.]
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).