Autobiographies.
Found in 294 Collections and/or Records:
Autobiography of Aylmer Haldane., [?1941-?1945.]
Personally typed by Aylmer Haldane, apparently over a period of years between about 1941 and 1945, originally as a single volume but bound in two volumes (interrupting the narrative in 1905).
A few letters and other papers are pasted in where they illustrate the narrative.
Autobiography of Aylmer Haldane, covering the years from 1905., [?1941-?1945.]
Personally typed by Aylmer Haldane, apparently over a period of years between about 1941 and 1945, originally as a single volume but bound in two volumes (interrupting the narrative in 1905).
A few letters and other papers are pasted in where they illustrate the narrative.
Autobiography of Aylmer Haldane, covering the years up to 1905., [?1941-?1945.]
Personally typed by Aylmer Haldane, apparently over a period of years between about 1941 and 1945, originally as a single volume but bound in two volumes (interrupting the narrative in 1905).
A few letters and other papers are pasted in where they illustrate the narrative.
Autobiography of Chilton L Addison-Smith.
Covering up to 1929.
With biographical papers.
Autobiography of Douglas Wimberley, "Scottish Soldier".
Autobiography of George Combe., 1858.
Autobiography of George Combe., 1858.
Autobiography of George Combe., 1858.
Autobiography of John Simpson Kidd.
Describing his early days in Aberdeenshire, and his enlisting in the 21st Foot.
Autobiography of John William Ballantyne, written 1910-1921 and covering the years 1861-1896., 1910-1921.
With letters and memorabilia pasted in.
Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Autobiography of Sydney Durward Tremayne., 1972-[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.
Autobiography of Thomas Mitchell addressed to Thomas Boston, minister of the Gospel at Jedburgh. With a 'History of Thomas Mitchell, born and educated among the Gypsies; afterwards a soldier in the 21sts Regiment of Foot or North British Fusiliers', published by the Edinburgh Religious Tract Society, 1816.
Biographical notes of John Purves on several 18th and 19th century Scottish scholars, with extracts from the autobiography, 1695, of Sir Robert Sibbald., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Biographical papers of members of the Elliot family of Minto., [?Circa 1858], undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Draft biography of Charles James Fox by the 2nd Earl of Minto, ?circa 1858 (folio 1); (ii) Autobiographical notes by the 2nd Baron and Baroness Dunfermline, undated (folio 58).
Biographical papers of various members of the Elliot family of Minto., 1858-1934, undated.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Bound volume entitled ‘Further Memories’ by Richard Haldane., 16 January 1925.
The volume, dated 16 January 1925 (folio 71), is the carbon copy of a retyped version of MS.5921 as revised, and was presented by Richard Haldane to his mother on her hundredth birthday, 9 April 1925 (folio iii).
Carbon copy of MSS.20063-20064: Typed copy of a revised version of the ‘Autobiography’ of Richard Haldane", as revised, containing a few further alterations., [?1927, or after.]
The most substantial of the alterations are the additions at folios 97-101, 125, 163-164 and 253-254. The chief difference between this final copy and the printed book is the deletion of folios 199-242.
Continuation of Morrison's autobiography from 1866 onwards., ca. 1930.
Photocopies from a notebook containing the continuation of Morrison's handwritten autobiography, beginning "On the 10th October 1866 I began teaching in Eriboll". The writing covers 48 leaves, mainly written on the recto sides only. The versos of pages 34-36 contain the additional story of the "Tongue piano". The original notebook remains in private hands.
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘An account of the life of Philocris… written by himself’ i.e. James Frazer of Brea.
Copy, 1828, of the account of his activities leading to his flight from Scotland in 1567 and his subsequent adventures on the coast of Norway composed by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, in 1568, whilst he was confined at Copenhagen by order of the King of Denmark.
The account was intended to show that Bothwell was the victim of ill will on the part of the Scottish nobility, and to persuade the King to release him; but he was unsuccessful and remained in prison until his death in 1578.
Following an application by the Curators of the Advocates` Library to the philologist R C Rask, this copy was made in 1828 from the original, in Drottningholm, by P A Wallmark, Librarian to the King of Sweden.
Copy, dated June 16 1727 (page 178), of the autobiography of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, which was written (in the third person) apparently in 1714 (page 171).
The text ends at page 171: the following pages contain passages intended for previous insertion.
Copy in an eighteenth-century hand of an autobiography, undated, of the Reverend Gabriel Semple, Minister of Jedburgh., [Before 1707.]
Inside the front cover is the following note in the Very Reverend John Lee's hand: 'The original by the author is written in a pocket-book, in some haste, and a little incorrectly in some places, but it is here as in the original'.