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Biographies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.

Found in 520 Collections and/or Records:

Corrected typescript of ‘Sir Walter Scott and his wife: the happy marriage and the mystery’ by Elisabeth Anthony Dexter.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23066
Scope and Contents

At the end is a genealogical table of the Scott family.

Dates: [Circa 1960.]

Corrected typescript, undated, of Alan Strout, entitled 'Later Years', covering James Hogg's life from 1826 to 1835., [1946, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.10494
Scope and Contents

The text was not included in the published version, but was possibly intended as the final chapter of volume one. There is no close resemblance of the manuscript to MS.10495: Typescript of the draft for the unpublished second volume of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’.

Dates: [1946, or before.]

Correspondence and papers of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson., 1854-1908, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20025-20029
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1854-1908, undated.

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.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20005-20036
Scope and Contents

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1833-1925, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Patrick William Campbell, Writer to the Signet.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.10349
Scope and Contents

Includes material on investments in Argentina, genealogy, biography and poetry.

Dates: 1880-1920.

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.