Autobiographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Biographies of individuals written by themselves.
Found in 294 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous notes and articles of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.9322
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, undated, entitled 'On teaching poetry', being the text of a lecture delivered to a group of teachers at some time during Sir Herbert Grierson's tenure (1894-1915) of the Chair of English at Aberdeen (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript, undated of part of a bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy compiled by R B H Thomson and presumably in his hand (folio 27);(iii) Manuscript, 1916, entitled 'Shakespeare Centenary...
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Miscellaneous notes and writings of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17802
Scope and Contents
The volume contains miscellaneous historical notes, 18th and early 19th centuries, many by Martha Fletcher and her father Henry (on military matters and against the union of 1707); also an essay on Machiavelli, notes by Lord Milton (presumably lecture notes from Leyden) on the Roman constitution, continuation of the autobiography of the 4th Earl of Panmure (see MS.17804), and an obituary of General John Fletcher.
Dates:
18th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Miscellaneous notes, articles, financial records and other papers., 1801-1986, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9533/306-337
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
1801-1986, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Ruthven Todd., [Circa 1920]-1981, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26883-26888
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...
Dates:
[Circa 1920]-1981, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Hays of Yester., 1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14778-14827
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:
1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Oliphants of Gask., 17th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.9.1-82.9.16
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous prose of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., ?1936-1950, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27083-27084
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as writing books, Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a manuscript was intended for publication or for a talk;...
Dates:
?1936-1950, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Broadcasts and speeches of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Miscellaneous single letters, poetry, etc., of celebrities, collected by Allan Park Paton., 1762-1900, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3219
Scope and Contents
Among the writers are: Hugh Blair, writing of Ossian and of University matters, 1762 (folio 1); Robert Burns, part of a letter to Mrs McLehose (Clarinda) (published), 1787 (folio 3); 'An American gentleman', probably the Reverend Heman Humphrey, on the field of Waterloo, 1835 (folio 36); Principal Alexander John Scott, a sonnet, 'Harold complains that mountain-climbers find', ?1844 (folio 58); Lord Dufferin, commending Ebenezer Wyse, who navigated the ‘Foam’ to Iceland, etc., on the voyage...
Dates:
1762-1900, undated.
"Mr. James Murray's Diary, or, a succinct record of quhat was remarkable with relation to him for ye glory of God & of his own shame & downcasting"; James Murray was Minister of Penpont, Dumfriesshire, 1693-1735.
Item
Identifier: MS.3045
Scope and Contents
The work, which is more of an autobiography than a diary, James Murray's life until about 1717. It includes 'A short account of quhat was memorable in ye life, especially at ye death, of Agnes Gilchrist, spouse to Jo. Duncan in Penpont' (folios 60-64).
Dates:
?Late 17th century-1717.
"My Patient's recollections", an account in an unidentified twentieth-century hand of the early life, until about 1849, of Mary E Haldane., [1917, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.20149
Scope and Contents
Although Mary Haldane is consistently referred to as ‘My patient’ it seems probable that much of the information, if not the narrative came from herself, for it breaks off in mid-sentence at folio 102 verso and ends on a half-sheet of paper found loosely enclosed and since tipped in at the end (folio 103). There are lengthy additions in her hand, dated 1917, at folio 4 verso, 12 verso, 53 verso, 54 verso, and many small pencil corrections throughout, also in her hand.The account...
Dates:
[1917, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
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Diaries and notebooks of Mary E Haldane.
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Notebooks of Mary E Haldane chiefly containing travel and autobiographical writings.
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Account of the life of Mary E Haldane.
Notebook containing an account by Mary E Haldane of her ancestors and her early years as far as about 1846., [After ?1868.]
Item
Identifier: MS.20018
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence is largely concerned with family events and personal matters, many of which are connected with evangelical religion, in which both the Haldane and Burdon-Sanderson families were influential.
Dates:
[After ?1868.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
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Correspondence and papers of Mary E Haldane, consisting chiefly of letters written to her by members of her family, chiefly her sisters and brother, and of her husband's family, and by friends.
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Notebooks, apparently the first and last of a series of three, containing parts of an account by Mary Haldane of her life and experiences.
Notebook containing an account by Mary E Haldane of her life and experiences resuming, at about 1856, the narrative started in MS.20018: Notebook containing an account by Mary E Haldane of her ancestors and her early years as far as about 1846., [After ?1868.]
Item
Identifier: MS.20019
Scope and Contents
The narrative breaks off in mid-sentence (folio 45) part-way through a summary of the visit to Italy in 1868 (cf. MS.20014). At the back (folio 1 inverted) is an account possibly derived from a printed source, of Port Royal and Angelique Arnauld.
A bifolium originally found loosely enclosed is now MS.20016, folio 399.
Dates:
[After ?1868.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
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Correspondence and papers of Mary E Haldane, consisting chiefly of letters written to her by members of her family, chiefly her sisters and brother, and of her husband's family, and by friends.
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Notebooks, apparently the first and last of a series of three, containing parts of an account by Mary Haldane of her life and experiences.
Notebook containing recollections by the Honourable Gilbert Elliot of his childhood, adolescence and military career., [Circa 1855.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13105
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains some financial accounts at the end of the volume.
Dates:
[Circa 1855.]
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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Notebooks and diaries of and concerning the Honourable Gilbert Elliot (1826-1865), 6th son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade, and of Lady Harriet Anne Gertrude Elliot (died 1855), 5th daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
Notebook containing the original manuscript of 'An autobiography' by Edwin Muir., [1954, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19656
Notebook containing the original manuscript of 'An autobiography' by Edwin Muir., [1954, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19657
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains pages 205-250 of the published text, beginning on folio 10 and written on the rectos and then inverted on the versos; folio 1 and the rectos of folios 2-9 contain poems and notes, including material for the autobiography which was used by P H Butter in ‘Edwin Muir: man and poet’, 1966, pages 246-249.
Dates:
[1954, or before.]
Notebook containing the original manuscript of 'An autobiography' by Edwin Muir., [1954, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19658
Notebooks and journals of George Combe., 1807-1858.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7399-7434
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates:
1807-1858.
Notebooks, apparently the first and last of a series of three, containing parts of an account by Mary Haldane of her life and experiences., [After ?1868.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20018-20019
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence is largely concerned with family events and personal matters, many of which are connected with evangelical religion, in which both the Haldane and Burdon-Sanderson families were influential.
Dates:
[After ?1868.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
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Correspondence and papers of Mary E Haldane, consisting chiefly of letters written to her by members of her family, chiefly her sisters and brother, and of her husband's family, and by friends.
Notebooks containing the original manuscript of chapters 7-13 of 'An autobiography' by Edwin Muir., [1954, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19656-19658
Dates:
[1954, or before.]
Notes and copies or extracts from documents and printed books on historical and other subjects, titled ‘Miscellaneous Papers and Notes’; several of the notes are in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph., 1821-1850, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.911
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains material accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.The papers include :Copies of four letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1824, 1829 (folios 15-22);Information regarding Jonathan Swift supplied by Irish correspondents (folios 33, 70);Maria Edgeworth’s note of the tour which she took with Scott in August 1825 (folio 50);Thomas Moore’s journal, in his hand, of his visit to Abbotsford in 1825, used by Lockhart in his ‘Life...
Dates:
1821-1850, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Notes for and manuscript drafts of 'The wilderness', an autobiographical work designed as a case history, by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1938-1939.
File
Identifier: MS.26144
Scope and Contents
A letter of Sydney Goodsir Smith, describing the work and his state of mind, is included (folio l).
Dates:
1938-1939.
Notes, manuscript and typescript of autobiography of Jan Struther., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/27-29
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates:
Undated.
Notes on the illustrations to be included in the autobiography of Lucinda Mackay, 2022
File
Identifier: MS.50839
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, ephemera, research notes, and personal photograph albums documenting Lucinda Mackay's family life, from birth to the present day. It also includes preparatory drafts and notes towards an as-yet-unpublished memoir entitled 'My Life as an Artist.'
Dates:
2022
Notes towards the autobiography of Lucinda Mackay; and an addition entitled 'My Approach to Being an Artist', 2022
File
Identifier: MS.50838
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, ephemera, research notes, and personal photograph albums documenting Lucinda Mackay's family life, from birth to the present day. It also includes preparatory drafts and notes towards an as-yet-unpublished memoir entitled 'My Life as an Artist.'
Dates:
2022
Original manuscript of Alexander Carlyle's 'Autobiography'., 1801-1805.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23911-23916
Scope and Contents
Alexander Carlyle was engaged on his autobiography at
various times during the last five, years of his life but at his death the narrative had reached only 1770. When it was published, in 1860, a supplemental chapter was added by the editor, John Hill Burton, to cover the remainder of Carlyle's life. It is written on the rectos only, with additions, some, quite, lengthy, on the facing versos. A number of passages were deleted by Carlyle: these, were, not printed but the remainder...
Dates:
1801-1805.