Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 520 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Johnston family., Circa 1796-1920, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.5811/1-21
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.
Dates:
Circa 1796-1920, undated.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12799
Dates:
circa 1942-2005.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11154/1-47
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Dates:
1959-1990.
'Personal history and associations of Sir Walter Scott', by Helen J M Russell of Ashiesteel, in typescript and the author's autograph., Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3234
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Photocopies of biography, 1603, of James VI and I, (Archiviolo b. 208, ff 12) and two other documents.
File
Identifier: Acc.9897
Scope and Contents
Includes:
instructions, 1538, to a Papal nuncio on visiting Scotland (Archiviolo b. 158, ff 323-324)
letter, 1593, of James VI to the King of Poland concerning the Grand Duke of Tuscany (Scaffalatura 69/51/23).
Dates:
1538-1603.
Photocopies of the Ceol Beag of Duncan Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.9396
Scope and Contents
With biographical material.
Dates:
circa 1820 to 20th century.
Photocopy, 1969, of Peter Kane, "Catholic Socialist".
File
Identifier: Acc.9368
Scope and Contents
Biographcial sketch of John Wheatley.
With four photographs, 1930, of Wheatley`s funeral.
Dates:
1930-1969.
Photocopy of corrected typescript of Malcolm MacDonald`s "Ronald Stevenson: a Musical Biography".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10681
Dates:
1989.
Photocopy of entry on James Ramsay MacDonald in the `Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals`, with a postcard of him., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13629/19
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...
Dates:
Undated.
Photocopy of typescript biography of Edwin Sargood Fry.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7788
Dates:
circa 1929-circa 1980.
Photocopy of typescript monograph of James M Alston, "Charles Alston (1685-1760), Professor of Medicine and Botany at Edinburgh".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7577
Dates:
1980.
Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11193
Scope and Contents
Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.
Dates:
circa 1822-1995.
Poems and letters of the author and journalist William Henry ('Will H') Ogilvie (1869-1963); with photocopies of letters of his wife, Katherine, and other related papers. Included incorrectly is the typescript of "My mither's aunt and other verses" by William Ogilvie (1891-1939), Edinburgh architect.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26027-26029
Dates:
1909-1963.
Poems, prose pieces and music by various authors collected by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1942-1978, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27219
Scope and Contents
Many may have been sent to Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ for his opinion. A substantial number are unsigned and many are incomplete. They include part of a biography of John MacLean by James Maxton (folio 116), a chapter on the Celtic background of Scottish literature (folio 181), and part of an interview with MacDiarmid by Alexander Scott (folio 227).
Dates:
1942-1978, undated.
Printed biographical notices of Persian statesmen and notables., 1906, 1910.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12657-12658
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1906, 1910.
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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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Foreign Department.
'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant., [1880, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17940
Scope and Contents
This copy is wanting pages 31-32. It has fuller annotations than MS.17925.
Dates:
[1880, or after.]
Proceedings, lists and other papers relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.6
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.
Proof copy of Dorothy Haig, "The Man I Knew".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7133
Scope and Contents
Containing numerous passages crossed through or corrected with typed past-overs.
Dates:
1935-1936.
Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto., [1874, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19467
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The proofs are heavily corrected throughout by the author and others.
Dates:
[1874, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
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Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto.
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Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto.
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Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto, apparently an earlier version in larger format of the ‘Life and Letters’ as eventually published in 1874.
Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto., [1874, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19468
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The proofs are heavily corrected throughout by the author and others.
Dates:
[1874, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
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Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto.
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Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto.
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Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto, apparently an earlier version in larger format of the ‘Life and Letters’ as eventually published in 1874.
Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto., [1874, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19469
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The proofs are heavily corrected throughout by the author and others.
Dates:
[1874, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
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Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto.
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Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto.
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Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto, apparently an earlier version in larger format of the ‘Life and Letters’ as eventually published in 1874.
Proofs, undated, of ‘Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1773-1793’, by Nina, Countess of Minto, apparently an earlier version in larger format of the ‘Life and Letters’ as eventually published in 1874., [1874, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19467-19469
Scope and Contents
The proofs are heavily corrected throughout by the author and others.
Dates:
[1874, or before.]
Prose works of Joseph Macleod., 1921-1981, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10590/16-69
Reel-to-reel audiotapes of the master sound tracks, with transcripts, to three films, on Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean, and Eric Linklater, produced by Films of Scotland.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6832/1-4
Dates:
1972-1976.
Reel-to-reel sound recording of the audio from a television programme concerning John Buchan, 'Man of Parts'.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6567
Scope and Contents
The container has a typescript label affixed, 'Sound tape: John Buchan, Man of parts'.
Dates:
1975.