Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 520 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of introductions and prefaces by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' to some of his own works, as well as to works by other writers., 1936-1978, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27067
Scope and Contents
The papers include fragments of the introduction to Hugh MacDiarmid's proposed biography of John Maclean, 1936 (folio 1), the introduction to his unpublished long poem 'Impavidi Progrediamur', 1956 (folio 58), and a partial typescript of the introductory essay to an anthology of work by contemporary Scottish poets, undated (folio 212).
Dates:
1936-1978, 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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Articles and short pieces of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Marguerite Wood, "The Lord Provosts of Edinburgh 1296-1932", with author`s annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6840
Dates:
circa 1932.
Marked and revised offprint of an article from the "Quarterly Review" : "Sterne" by Whitwell Elwin., ? 1853-? 1900.
Item
Identifier: MS.42207
Scope and Contents
Elwin`s article on Laurence Sterne was published in the "Quarterly Review", March 1854. The offprint has been bound in cloth covers and interleaved. Many of the pages have been marked with corrections and alterations. Certain passages have been re-worked on the interleaves. Included is a manuscript copy by Elwin of a letter, 1762, of Sterne to an unnamed recipient.The article was republished in Elwin`s, "Some XVIII century men of letters", under the following introduction :...
Dates:
? 1853-? 1900.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning Whitwell Elwin.
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Manuscript, notebooks, proofs and copies of published articles by Whitwell Elwin, and relating to his work as an editor.
Material, chiefly genealogical, collected by John Philp Wood, chiefly leaves found loose in MSS.1872-1877., 1775-1814.
File
Identifier: MS.1878
Scope and Contents
Also included are: a State of Terregles Parish, 1776 (folio 24); a printed ‘Song for the Duddingston Curling Society’, 1817, with manuscript notes of the names of the persons mentioned (folio 26); and two leaves printed from John Philp Wood's biographies of the Presidents of the Court of Session (Adv.MS.37.2.1, pages 1-19), showing that he intended to publish them (folio 28).
Dates:
1775-1814.
Material for a biography of Thomas Carlyle, part, at least, of which was collected by Frederick Martin., 1821-1877, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2884
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of Mary Carlyle Aitken and others to Frederick Martin, regarding his biography of Thomas Carlyle, 1877. (Folio 1.)(ii) Poems, apparently in the early handwriting of Jane Welsh. (Folio 13.)(iii) Copies of correspondence, 1821-1856, chiefly of letters of Jane Welsh and Emerson to Thomas Carlyle. (Folio 18.) Some of the letters of Jane Welsh are copied from originals placed in MS.2883.(iv) Copies of letters...
Dates:
1821-1877, undated.
Material for Sir Robert Sibbald`s projected `Bibliotheca Scotica`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) An alphabetical index of Scottish authors and their works, circa 1700 (folio 1). The beginning is probably missing (the pagination commences with page 11). Most of the entries are copied from ‘Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum lib.XIX’. It is followed by an appendix (folio 137 verso) in which the entries are more detailed.(ii) `De Scriptoris Scoticis`, circa 1702 (folio 150). A bibliography of works, including...
Dates:
Circa 1700, circa 1702.
Material relating to Bibi Salimah, including copies of 'The story of Bibi Salimah', undated; a copy of correspondence of Bibi Salima to her brother, with translation, circa 1883; and related correspondence of John Kirk and other individuals, 1875-1883., 1875-1883, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9942/20
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Bibi Salimah, sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar who married a German and fled Zanzibar.Typescript (2 copies) of 'The story of Bibi Salimah'.Manuscript account of the life of Bibi Salima (different text to the above).Copy of Bibi Salima's letter to her brother the Sultan, [noted on the translation to be circa 1876, but in reality circa 1883] and two English translations of this.Letters relating to Bibi Salimah:2...
Dates:
1875-1883, undated.
Materials for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.17
Scope and Contents
Thirty-nine of the baronetcies created by Charles I are covered; for each is given a brief account of the origin of the family, a fuller account of the holders of the baronetcy, and a description of the coat-of-arms. The paper of the manuscript is watermarked 1811. It is probable, therefore, that Samuel Bridges was working on this subject at the same time as, or shortly after, he re-edited Collins` ‘Peerage of England’ (London, 1812). However, he did not publish the work and it...
Dates:
1811, or after.
‘Memoir of Mrs Traill’, written in 1842 by Thomas Stewart Traill being a biography of his wife, Christian Robertson, who died in that year., 1842.
Item
Identifier: MS.19391
Scope and Contents
, Thomas Stewart Traill also narrates current events such as the cholera epidemic of 1832 and its effect on Liverpool, and important happenings in the lives of other members of the family such as his own visit to Spain of 1814 (see MSS.19388-19389).
Dates:
1842.
Memoir of Tipu, undated, written by a Maratha Sirdar in his service, with a draft preface by Alexander Walker, circa 1825., 1st quarter of 19th century, [circa 1825].
Item
Identifier: MS.13795
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century, [circa 1825].
Memoranda of a son, probably Andrew, of Andrew Massie, Regent of Philosophy at Edinburgh University and Advocate, recording important events in his own life and those of his family from 1672 to 1712, including all births and deaths.
Item
Identifier: MS.3077
Scope and Contents
The writer’s mother was Margaret, daughter of James Cheape, 1st of Rossie, and he married his cousin Isabella, daughter of Henry Cheape, 2nd of Rossie.
At folio 2 is an account of the last words, mainly biographical, of a dying lady, following a leaf inscribed 'Memoria D. Annae Lesleae'. There is a list of ladies' garments at folio 17. At the end the writer speaks of his conduct in the matter of private religion (inverted folio 1).
Dates:
1672-1712.
'Memorial' of Margaret Constable, written by one of her brothers or sisters, consisting of an account of her last days and death., 1838.
Item
Identifier: MS.23235
'Memorial' of Margaret Constable, written by one of her brothers or sisters, consisting of an account of her last days and death, with copies of related family correspondence.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23235-23236
Dates:
1838, 1878, 1901-[1902.]
Microfilm of 16th-century manuscript containing the 'Vie de saint Louis' of Jean de Joinville.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.352
Dates:
[Circa 1550.]
Microfilm of biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1024-1025
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Microfilm of biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie, subjects beginning A-Man., Late 19th century-?1956.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1024
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Subjects beginning A-Ga (MS.22130), 176 frames;
Subjects beginning Ga-MacD (MS.22131), 180 frames;
Subjects beginning MacE-Man (MS.22132), 208 frames.
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Microfilm of copy, 17th century, of ‘The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.215
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.658
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fragment of a Gaelic manuscript, 15th century, containing scholastic texts (Adv.MS.72.1.7);Manuscript, ?14th-?19th century, containing a commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates in Gaelic and Latin (Adv.MS.72.1.10);Medical manuscript, ?16th century, in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside (Adv.MS.72.1.11);Medical manuscript, 16th century, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine,...
Dates:
?14th century-?19th century.
Microfilm of heraldic and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.26
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, 17th century, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon (Adv.MS.17.2.4); Gordons of Craichlaw (Adv.MS.27.5.28);Letters, 1618-1712, to members of the Oswald family of Fingaltoun. Some...
Dates:
Late 16th century- early 19th century.
Microfilm of 'Historical Account of the Comyns, Earls of Buchan’ by James Mitchell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.834
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of ‘Life of Beattie’ by Sir William Forbes.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.324
Dates:
18th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.486
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Microfilm of manuscript, possibly from Mount Athos, of St Dorotheus and sermons of Isaias, with an account of the miracle performed by the Virgin at Blachernae.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.459
Dates:
Late 10th century-early 11th century.
Microfilm of memoranda and other papers, including biographical material by Alexander Walker., 1797-1821.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2034