Biographies.
Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript, "Life of Goldsmith", by James Prior : chapters 23-24., 1837, or before.
The manuscript of Prior`s biography of Oliver Goldsmith.
Manuscript, "Life of Goldsmith", by James Prior : chapters 25-26., 1837, or before.
The manuscript of Prior`s biography of Oliver Goldsmith.
Manuscript, "Life of Goldsmith", by James Prior. Unsorted sections., 1837, or before.
The manuscript of Prior`s biography of Oliver Goldsmith.
Manuscript, "Life of the Revd George Crabbe L.L.B", by his son, George Crabbe (1785-1857). Included with the manuscript are marked galley proofs of certain passages of the biography., 1833-1834.
The biography of Crabbe was published as the first volume of "The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe" (1834).
Manuscript, "Memoir of John Murray", by William Gladstone., 1891.
The manuscript is a review of "A publisher and his friends", by Samuel Smiles.
Manuscript of a biography of Sir Stamford Raffles by George Reith., [?1885-?1941.]
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Manuscript of a biography of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, by an unidentified author., Circa 1834.
Watermark, 1834.
Manuscript of Alexander Scott's biography of the poet William Soutar, 'Still life'., [1958, or before.]
The manuscript differs considerably from the published version. It is written in a series of eighteen notebooks with continuous foliation, and includes a few notes on vocabulary by William Soutar (folio i).
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]
This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.
Manuscript of part 3 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1943-1946, 1951-1957.
Manuscript of 'Some Account of the Life of the late Colonel Hume Caldwell ... who was killed, in the 27th year of his age, in the Service of her Imperial Majesty [Maria Theresa], as he was conducting a sally from the Fortress of Schweidnitz [1762] ... To which are added Authenticated copies of some Original Papers relative to his Family'., 1775.
The 'Authenticated copies of Original Papers' chiefly concern Hume Cadwell's great-grandfather and his brother, Sir James Caldwell, 1st and 3rd Baronets of Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh. The work was written in 1775 for publication (see note on folio 17 verso), but is apparently unpublished.
Manuscript, "Short notes of the life of Horatio Walpole, youngest son of Sr. Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and of Catherine Shorter, his first wife", by an unidentified author., ? 1810-? 1840.
The date of the watermark of the paper of the wrapper binding is 1810. The watermark of the paper of the manuscript itself is 1840. The manuscript is written in the first person and may, therefore, be a copy of a manuscript by Walpole.
Manuscript, undated, and apparently unfinished, of a biography of Sir Charles Pasley by his grand-daughter Amelia Tyler., 19th century-early 20th century.
The biography is concerned with Sir Charles Pasley's early career in the army from 1796, his war service in the Mediterranean, Denmark, and Walcharen, and his establishment and organisation of the Royal Engineer Establishment, 1812-1818. The narrative is composed largely from extensive excerpts from Pasley's diaries and correspondence.
The manuscript lacks chapter IX (original folios 223-272).
Manuscripts by Washington Irving, with some proofs of works by Irving., Circa 1829-1850.
Irving produced many popular and successful works throughout his writing career, most of which were published in Britain by John Murray. The manuscripts in this sequence relate to some of these works, including 'The Crayon Miscellany' and three volumes of 'A Chronicle of the conquest of Granada'. In addition, there is an incomplete manuscript for a review for the 'Quarterly Review', and a letter that contains a personal outline of his life up until 1837.
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.
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).