Biographies.
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of Sir George Arthur, "Life of Lord Kitchener" (1920), containing author`s letter, ?1921, and proof of Earl Haig`s preface for French edition.
Copy of "The Life and Acts of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce...", inscribed Berlin, by the Earl Marischal and James Boswell.
Corrected manuscript of Forbes Macgregor, "Such as Adam: the Story of the Days of Seumas Forbes (1777-1804)".
Corrected page proofs of Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery, "Chatham, His Early Life and Connenctions".
Corrected proof of Alan Bold, ""Scots Steel Tempered wi` Irish Fire": Hugh MacDiarmid and Ireland".
Corrected typescript draft of Paddy Kitchen's biography of Sir Patrick Geddes, 'A most unsettling person'.
Corrected typescript of "Edwin and Willa Muir. Chapters of Autobiography" by Catriona and Lumír Soukup.
Corrected typescript of George Bruce, "William Soutar (1898-1943). The Man and the Poet".
Corrected typescript of James Burnet, "The Life and Works of Guido Gezelle".
Corrected typescript of ‘Sir Walter Scott and his wife: the happy marriage and the mystery’ by Elisabeth Anthony Dexter.
At the end is a genealogical table of the Scott family.
Corrected typescripts and proofs of biographies of Joseph Hislop and Mary Garden, by Michael T R B Turnbull.
Includes three other works.
Corrected typescripts and proofs of George Bruce, "William Soutar (1898-1943)" (1978), and ""To Foster and Enrich". The First Fifty Years of the Saltire Society" (1986).
Correspondence and literary papers of the author, Marion C Lochhead (1902-1985).
Correspondence and papers concerning research for, and the writing and publication of "Benjamin Fawcett Engraver and Colour Printer" (1988) by Ruari and Antonia McLean.
Correspondence and papers of (Alfred) William Ross, Head of Radar, Royal Radar Establishment.
Correspondence and papers of David Fletcher, mainly arising from acting as literary agent for Kathleen Jamie, Marion Lochhead, Colin Mackay, Ruari McLean, David Muriston and James Ritchie.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
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.
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.
Correspondence and papers of Patrick William Campbell, Writer to the Signet.
Includes material on investments in Argentina, genealogy, biography and poetry.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
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.
Correspondence and papers of the Very Reverend John Lee, Principal of Edinburgh University, with the material collected by him.
Cuthbert Lennox and Andrew Melrose, "George Douglas Brown" (London, 1903), with annotations of R S Craig.
'David Livingstone, a reassessment with particular reference to his psyche' by Oliver Ransford, a University of Rhodesia thesis.
The thesis is the basis of the biography, ‘David Livingstone, the dark interior’ by Oliver Ransford and gives fuller particulars of his theory that Livingstone was cyclothymic.
Diaries, 1832-1865, chiefly of Colonel James Halkett (1822-1870), Coldstream Guards, son of Hugh, Baron von Halkett, describing his service in Britain, Mauritius, India and the Crimea; with correspondence and related material, 1847-1863, concerning several other members of the Halkett family.
James Halkett was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Mauritius, Sir William Gomm, from 1842 to 1847, and to the Commander-in-Chief of India from 1850 to 1854. He was severely wounded in action in November 1854 and the diary for that year gives particular accounts of the battles he witnessed during the Crimean War.