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Memoirs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Narratives or histories autobiographical in nature or stressing the author's personal experience of the events.

Found in 366 Collections and/or Records:

Military memoirs of General Thomas Wentworth relating to the War of the Austrian Succession, partly in shorthand., 1747.

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Identifier: MS.25707
Scope and Contents

Interspersed with the memoirs are copies and drafts of letters of General Thomas Wentworth to Henry Fox, the Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Henry Pelham. There is also a 'List of Ministers at Vienna, 1747' (folio 104).

Dates: 1747.

Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1807-1808, undated.

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Identifier: MS.11724
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpt of a letter, 15 December 1807, concerning the breaching of forts (folio 1); (ii) Letter of Richard Jeffreys, Chaplain, Fort William, 1808, with enclosed papers concerning the Military Officers' Widows' Fund (folio 5); (iii) Memorandum by Francis Hamilton Buchanan, Bengal Medical Service, circa 1808, concerning the teak forests of Malabar (folio 15). See also MS.11721, folio 158. (iv) Two letters of John Scott at Rangoon, 1807-1808, concerning timber...
Dates: 1807-1808, undated.

Miscellaneous manuscripts.

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Identifier: MS.2618
Scope and Contents The principle items are as follows.Letter, undated, of Alexander Alesius, Professor of Theology at Leipzig, to a patron, thanking him for favours. (Folio 1.)'A briefe relacon of all such passages as happened dureing the Seidge of the Castle of Edinburgh' (of 1640), written by one of the garrison in reply to ‘A True representation of the proceedings of the Kingdome of Scotland’ by the Estates of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1640). An item torn from a manuscript book. (Folio...
Dates: [1640, or after]-1866, undated.

Miscellaneous manuscripts, received unbound., 1650-?1935.

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Identifier: MS.5841
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Declaration by Sir John Smith about the expenses of the 1650 mission to Charles II at Breda, on which he and the 3rd Earl of Lothian were sent. (Folio 1.)(ii) Two letters (one a draft, the second a copy) written by the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire to the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, 1766, and to the Countess of Suffolk, undated, describing his experiences as ambassador at the Russian Court, 1762-1765. Part of the second letter is printed in...
Dates: 1650-?1935.

Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Testamentary Memoir written by Theophilus, in which his own dearest concerns are Ingenuously Narrated, and sundry of a more publick Nature are also touched, all Addressed to his surviving friends`, early 18th century. This is similar in style to the ‘Memorial` of James Hog, and the hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.8. The author appears to have written other memorials and a short history of the Covenanters based...
Dates: 18th century.

Miscellaneous papers and letters concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1807-1813, undated.

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Identifier: MS.11722
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers, 1807, relating to the surveys of Mysore (folio 1); (ii) Thomas Marshall, Bombay Medical Service, 'Memoir of a Route from Mandavee in Kutch to Hyderabad in Sind', 1808 (folio 11); (iii) Papers from Francis Hamilton Buchanan, Bengal Medical Service, 1808, on his survey of the district of Dinajpur (folio 31); (iv) Letters of Major William Lambton, 1809-1811, concerning his survey of the Malabar and Coromandel coasts (folio 47); (v) Letters of Mounstuart...
Dates: 1807-1813, undated.

Miscellaneous papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1806-1809, undated.

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Identifier: MS.11721
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Memoranda by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Member of Council, Bengal, undated, concerning the revenue of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces (folio 1). See also MSS.11625-11626. (ii) Copy of a memorandum by Sir Harford Jones (later Brydges), 7 January 1807, concerning diplomatic relations with Iran, with related papers (folio 20); (iii) Memorandum by Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, 3 March 1808, concerning Sind (folio 44); (iv) Memorandum by Edmonstone, 10 March 1808,...
Dates: 1806-1809, undated.

Miscellaneous papers including legal papers and works probably by Sir William Stuart Walker., [Circa 1840]-1855.

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Identifier: MS.14095
Scope and Contents

The contents include: (i) Incomplete memoir, circa 1840, of the career of Alexander Walker, probably compiled by W S Walker (folio 1); (ii) Legal papers, 1845, 1848, concerning James Erskine, Aberdona against the Globe Insurance Company, and Patrick Tytler, Aberdona against James Brodie, Dunkeld, builder, (folio 36); (iii) Draft of letter, 1855, to the ‘Scottish ecclesiastical journal’ about the Education Bill of 1855, probably the work of W S Walker (folio 86).

Dates: [Circa 1840]-1855.

Miscellaneous papers of and relating to Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1855-1916, undated.

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Identifier: MS.25652
Scope and Contents

The papers include Sir Charles Dalrymple's account of Lady Alice Mary Dalrymple's death in 1884 and drafts for his Memorial Service at Newcraighall Church in 1916. There is also miscellaneous verse, drawings, and printed notices.

Dates: 1855-1916, undated.

Negative microfilm of manuscripts of, and collected by, Sir Walter Scott., 4th quarter of 18th century-early 19th century.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.578
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Journal of Sir Walter Scott, from 9 February 1826 to 13 April 1831 (MS.1570);Excerpts from Sir Walter Scott’s marginal notes, 4th quarter of 18th century-early 19th century, in books at Abbotsford, compiled by his sons Walter and Charles in 1832 (MS.1571);Certified copy, dated 1712, of an account of the court-martial held on John, Master of Sinclair, for the murder of Ensign Hugh Schaw and Captain Alexander Schaw, 1708 (MS.1572);...
Dates: 4th quarter of 18th century-early 19th century.

Negative microfilm of papers of, concerning, or collected by Sir Walter Scott., [?1622-?1844.]

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.579
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Transcript of ‘Memoirs of the Insurrection in the year 1715 by John, Master of Sinclair’, [1799, or after-1803, of after] (MS.1574);

Fragments, early 19th century, of reviews in the autograph of Robert Southey, with some notes on John Dryden by Sir Walter Scott (MS.1575);

Papers, [?1622-?1844], of and concerning Sir Walter Scott (MS.1583).

Dates: [?1622-?1844.]

Notebook containing part of the manuscript of ‘Two men and a blanket’ by Robert Garioch Sutherland., [1975, or before.]

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Identifier: MS.26610
Scope and Contents

The manuscript corresponds to pages 11-53 of the published edition, though there are some variations in the text.

Dates: [1975, or before.]