Narratives. Document genres.
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
Account of Alexander Walker of the war with Tipu, January-May 1799., 1799.
The manuscript appears to be a contemporary copy, made by or on behalf of Alexander Walker, of an incomplete account of his first-hand campaign experience.
Amended manuscript and typescript of article by Elizabeth S Haldane on Viscount Haldane, and related papers., [After 1880-before 1938], 1973.
'Authentick Account of the Misfortunes and Sufferrings of the Rt. Hon. The Lord James Hay, Lieutenant of H.M.S. Guernsey who was killed [in 1726] on the coast of Guinea by the Negroes.' Attested, 1740, by Edward Dixon, formerly his servant, who had been an eye-witness to most of the facts., 1740.
Biographical notes and passages, undated, compiled by Elizabeth S Haldane concerning her brother Viscount Haldane., [After 1880]-1937, 1973.
Copies of correspondence, 1771-1799, of Thomas Graham, with some linking narrative, [circa 1945.], 1771-1799, [circa 1945.]
Copies of correspondence and other documents of James Stuart., 1783.
Copies of correspondence and papers of and concerning Hugh Elliot relating to British Naval operations in the Mediterranean., 1803-1804.
Copies of correspondence of Thomas Graham, with some linking narrative., 1771-1802, [circa 1945.]
Copies of correspondence of Thomas Graham, with some linking narrative., 1800-1802, [circa 1945.]
Copies of official papers, January 1809, etc., concerning affairs in Kutch, including Captain Greenwood's account, September-October 1809, of a journey into Kutch., 1809.
Copies of printed papers of Thomas Stamford Raffles, and a narrative of events during the conquest of Java in the hand of the Countess of Minto., 1811, 1813, undated.
Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.
Copy of 'Narrative of circumstances, which occurred at the capture of the Honorable company's settlement of Tappanooly, on the West coast of Sumatra' (no publisher, 1810)., 1810.
Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.
Documents relating to the Episcopal Church of Scotland and copies of papers relating to the rising of 1745., 1739-1746, undated.
'Expedition of Charles, Prince of Wales', being a narrative of the Forty-Five by one who 'was eyewitness of the greatest part of what happened in the field'., 1745.
The narrative was apparently written shortly after Charles Edward's escape and reception in Paris. There is, in a modern hand, an abstract of the more important topics dealt with.
Fragment of an account of, and a narrative of transactions concerning Kutch., [Circa 1804], 1818.
The papers consist of:
(i) Fragment of an account of Kutch, made in this translated version circa 1804, but probably related to an earlier history in Persian; see MS.13930 (folio 1);
(ii) ’Narrative of transactions with the state of Cutch from 1802 to 1816’ compiled by Benjamin Jones in 1818 (folio 45).
Fragments of the journal kept by Sir John Erskine, 3rd Baronet, of Alva, when sent to France by the Old Pretender and the Earl of Mar, 1716; and part of a narrative describing the Old Pretender's attempt to regain his throne in 1715, and giving reasons for his failure., 1715-1716.
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Journal and other papers of James Stuart concerning military events in India., 1782-?1785.
Journals of James Stuart., 1780-?1785.
Letters and papers sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam, and papers communicated by Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Thomas Gage Montresor to Neil Benjamin Edmondstone., 1809.
Literary papers, [circa 1920]-1924, 1932-1933, of Mrs. Margaret Ethel Maxtone Graham., 1756-1933.
"Major Price's account of Baroda and narrative of affairs in Guzerat in a letter to the Honble. Mr Duncan", February 1805., 1805.
'Memoranda for my history of England written in July 1745 or 46. David Hume. James Court, 1750.', 1745-1746, 1750.
A narrative of events down to 1172, which is closely followed, though elaborated, in the published 'History of England'.
Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant. Reel 3. 19th century correspondence and Laurence Oliphant manuscript., 19th century.
The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
The contents are as follows:
Small collections and single letters, 1793-1874 (MS.3925);
Manuscript, [1855, or after], of ‘The Trans-Caucasian campaign of the Turkish army under Omar Pasha: a personal narrative’ by Laurence Oliphant. (MS.4855).