Autobiographies.
Found in 201 Collections and/or Records:
Other literary works of George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1953]-[?1963], undated.
George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.
Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers of and concerning James Nasmyth., 1861-2002.
Papers of George Smith relating chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine', and of books published by Smith, Elder and Company., 1860-1901.
The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.
Papers of Janet Adam Smith relating to her autobiography., 1914-1998, undated.
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Papers of Muriel Spark, relating to her autobiography., Circa 1953-1992, undated.
Papers relating to ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, the autobiography of John Dover Wilson., 1963-[1969, or before].
Papers relating to ‘Milestones on the Dover Road’, the autobiography of John Dover Wilson, and miscellaneous personal papers., 1938-1968, undated.
Papers relating to William Anderson, missionary in Jamaica and Calabar., 1841-1893.
Part of a manuscript related to 'The king my father's death' by Sydney Durward Tremayne., ?1972.
The manuscript contains chapters 1, 6-8, 19-23 and 26-30; also (folio 98) notes and odd sheets of text.
Partial manuscripts and typescripts of 'Carrying on with a broken back: postscript to a poet's autobiography' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [1943, or before]-[1955, or before.]
Begun as the foreword to ‘Lucky poet’, it became an essay on the problems of splitting up the work and other topics. The essay was not published in its entirety, but folios 59-68 were used in ‘Francis George Scott’ (Edinburgh, 1955).
Photocopies of autobiographical notebooks of Hew Morrison., ca. 1930.
Photocopies of three autobiographical accounts of Hew Morrison, made with the permission of Morrison's descendants, the donors. Two are written by hand in notebooks, the third is in the form of type-written sheets. All accounts are undated, but were written late in his life.
Portions of an autobiography of John Stuart Blackie, published as ‘Notes of a life’, followed by other biographical notes, journals, and reminiscences., 1837-1893, undated.
'Private notices' of Thomas Murray, author of 'The literary history of Galloway'., 1840, 1849.
Prose works of Joseph Macleod., 1921-1981, undated.
'Random Memories', being Robert Louis Stevenson's rough draft of the beginning of an autobiographical work, with a typed transcript., Late 19th century.
Robert Louis Stevenson speaks of his birth in Edinburgh, and describes a visit made to Homburg when he was twelve.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book I: 'Gibraltar, England, Toulon', containing chapters 1-2., July 1783-May 1793.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book II: 'Toulon', containing chapters 3-5, with a map., June-December 1793.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book III: 'Hieres Bay, Elba, Corsica, St Florenzo', containing chapters 6-9., December 1793-May 1794.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book IV: 'Corsica, Bastia, Calvi, Corte, Bastia', containing chapters 10-13., May 1794-February 1795.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book V: 'Corsica, Bastia, Corte', containing chapters 14-16., February 1795-October 1796.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book VI: "Elba, Porto, Ferajo, Naples, Gibraltar, Battle off St. Vincent's", containing chapters 17-18., October 1796-March 1797.
Includes the printed ‘Narrative’ of the battle of Cape St Vincent, which Colonel Drinkwater published anonymously in 1797, followed by the manuscript on which he based the matter, on pages 77-97, in the second edition, 1840.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797., [1797, or after.]
Recollections of events in the life of Mary E Haldane from 1850 until about 1860, concerning her marriage and the birth of her older children, written in her own hand between 1919 and 1922, with a few later additions and alterations., 1919-1922.
The volume continues the account started in MS.20149.