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Biographies.

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

Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript draft of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto as Viceroy, 1905-1910'., 1905-1910.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12855-12859
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1905-1910.

Typescript drafts and proofs of 'India, Minto and Morley' by Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto., 1907-1910, [1934, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12852-12861
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1907-1910, [1934, or before.]

Typescript drafts of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto in India'., 1907-1910.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12852-12854
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1907-1910.

Typescript drafts of ‘Pioneer of sociology’ by Philip A Mairet, with comments by Arthur Geddes, 1956-1957, and some biographical notes used by Mairet., 1956-1957.

 File
Identifier: MS.19268
Scope and Contents

There are also typewritten drafts of Arthur Geddes' introduction to Philip A Mairet's biography with the latter's criticisms and corrections, and of his ‘Diagnosis of evils’ written as an article in ‘Fortnightly’, October 1958, on Mairet's work.

Dates: 1956-1957.

Typescript of chapters 1-7 of ‘Lord Rosebery’ by Lord Crewe., 1931.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10197
Scope and Contents From the Series: Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates: 1931.

Typescript of chapters 8-15 of ‘Lord Rosebery’ by Lord Crewe., 1931.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10198
Scope and Contents From the Series: Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates: 1931.

Typescript of ‘Lord Rosebery’ by Lord Crewe, 1931., 1931.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10197-10199
Scope and Contents From the Series: Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates: 1931.

Typescript, with inserted pages and manuscript corrections, of ‘The laughing mulatto: the story of Alexandre Dumas’ by Ruthven Todd., [1940, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26834
Scope and Contents From the Series: Much of Ruthven Todd's prose writing, especially in his later life, was repetitious: he not only made numerous drafts and re-writings, but he used the same material in both books and articles. In particular, he made use of his own reminiscences in his work on Dylan Thomas and Fitzrovia as well as in the more autobiographical 'Dead and other friends and places'. MSS.26834-26856 contain material intended for full-length books; MSS.26857-26863 consist of shorter works and...
Dates: [1940, or before.]

Typescript, with manuscript corrections in Elizabeth Haldane's hand, of an unpublished biography of Anne Dundas of Arniston., [1928, or before].

 Item
Identifier: MS.6043
Scope and Contents

The work is largely based on letters written by Anne Dundas, who was an extensive traveller and a talented amateur artist in water-colours.

Letters concerning the work, written to Elizabeth Haldane by friends and relatives of Miss Dundas, precede the text (folios 1-42).

Dates: [1928, or before].