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 177 Collections and/or Records:
'Memoir of Andrew Lumisden.', 1746-[circa 1836], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14264
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, [circa 1836], of Sir Thomas A L Strange to his son, Lumisden, giving biographical details of his uncle, Andrew Lumisden. (Folio 1.)(ii) Genealogical material, 1836, undated, relating to the Strange family. (Folios 32.)(iii) Pedigree, 1798, of Andrew Lumisden in his own hand, following a letter, 1814, of J Lumisden, Bengal. (Folio 36.)(iv) Printed pamphlet, ‘Votes of the House of Commons 1746’ (London,...
Dates:
1746-[circa 1836], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Sir Robert Strange, the engraver, and his brother-in-law, Andrew Lumisden, secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, encompassing the period from the '45 Rebellion to the early 19th century, with some earlier family documents and later genealogical material.
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Papers of the Lumisden family.
'Memoir of Andrew Lumisden, Esqr., successively secretary to the son & grandson of James the IInd. In a letter by his nephew, Sir Thomas Andrew William Lumisden Strange, to his son, Lumisden Strange’., 1836.
Item
Identifier: MS.2898
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in various hands. It is inscribed (folio 1), 'To James Dennistoun of Dennistoun from Sir Thomas A. Lumisden Strange ... 1836', and this date, which also occurs on folio xiii, appears to be that of composition. Entries referring to later dates have been inserted subsequently (some by James Dennistoun). This 'Memoir' differs considerably from the 'Notice' of Lumisden addressed by Strange to his daughter Louisa (MS.281). It includes genealogical accounts of the Strangs of...
Dates:
1836.
‘Memoir of Lieutenant George Marshall 92nd Regiment. 1785-1812’ written in a late nineteenth-century hand, possibly that of David Mackenzie., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.15372
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete, going no further than December 1810.
Much of the narrative concerns the expedition to Copenhagen of 1807, and George Marshall's journal (the original of which does not appear with these papers) is quoted in full, as are a few of his letters to his family.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Memoir of Lord Lynedoch labelled 'no. 1', covering the period 1792-1794., 1830.
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Identifier: MS.16188
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Military papers of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
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Memoirs of Lord Lynedoch covering his early military career, from 1792 to his escape from Mantua in 1796/7, dictated at Pisa, 1830, to his secretary, Alfred Waller.
Memoir of Lord Lynedoch labelled 'no. 2', covering the period 1794-1796., 1830.
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Identifier: MS.16189
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Military papers of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
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Memoirs of Lord Lynedoch covering his early military career, from 1792 to his escape from Mantua in 1796/7, dictated at Pisa, 1830, to his secretary, Alfred Waller.
Memoir of Lord Lynedoch labelled 'no. 3', covering the period 1796-1797., 1830.
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Identifier: MS.16190
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Military papers of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
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Memoirs of Lord Lynedoch covering his early military career, from 1792 to his escape from Mantua in 1796/7, dictated at Pisa, 1830, to his secretary, Alfred Waller.
‘Memoir of Mrs Traill’, written in 1842 by Thomas Stewart Traill being a biography of his wife, Christian Robertson, who died in that year., 1842.
Item
Identifier: MS.19391
Scope and Contents
, Thomas Stewart Traill also narrates current events such as the cholera epidemic of 1832 and its effect on Liverpool, and important happenings in the lives of other members of the family such as his own visit to Spain of 1814 (see MSS.19388-19389).
Dates:
1842.
'Memoir of Sir John Gilmour of Craigmiller, Knight' by John Philp Wood., ?1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.5272
Memoir of Victor Amyot, with correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with Victor and Alexandre Amyot and others., 1794-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.11217
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Victor Amyot, ‘Exposé de ma conduite pendant la Revolution’, dated Portoferraio, 15 April 1794 (folio l). Amyot had been commissaire de la marine at Brest, whence he arrived at Paris in April 1792. The memoir gives an account of his experiences in Paris, his journey to Provence, and his flight from Toulon on its capture by Republican forces. Amyot was subsequently employed by the 1st Earl in Corsica, and he then went to London on the evacuation of the island...
Dates:
1794-1807.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto concerning Toulon and Corsica.
'Memoir on the defence of India', by David Hopkins, Bengal Medical Service, addressed to the President of the Board of Control., 8 April 1808.
Item
Identifier: MS.11720
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.
Dates:
8 April 1808.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
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Memoir and miscellaneous papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
'Memoir respecting the office of Auditor of Excise in Scotland', by John Philp Wood, 1827., 1797-1827, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3106
Scope and Contents
Inserted at the end are: memorial of John Philp Wood, 1806 (page 177); copy of report of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland to H M Treasury on the office of Auditor of Excise, 1812 (page 179); account of the establishment of the Auditor's office in 1797, by Wood, 1821 (page 185); account of sums recovered and saved for the Revenue by Wood, undated (page 187); history of the office, by Wood, with copies of correspondence relating to previous auditors, undated (page 195); copy of patent...
Dates:
1797-1827, undated.
Memoirs by John Y Gray, Sir Alexander Gray's father, of his family in Angus, titled, 'My Kith and Kin', with later additions., [Circa 1916.]
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Identifier: MS.26016
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.
Dates:
[Circa 1916.]
Memoirs covering the years, 1846-1847, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
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Identifier: MS.24633
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, ?1848-1853, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
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Identifier: MS.24634
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, 1854-1862, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
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Identifier: MS.24635
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, ?1862-1871, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
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Identifier: MS.24636
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs covering the years, circa 1825-1846, of John M’Kie., ?1905-?1907.
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Identifier: MS.24632
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
'Memoirs of a short tour through part of the Netherlands in the year 1733'., 1733.
Item
Identifier: MS.2146
Scope and Contents
The route was through the present Flanders and Northern France.
Dates:
1733.
'Memoirs of Alexander Dalrymple, Esq., FRS, Hydrographer to the Admiralty and the Hon. the East India Company', anonymous, written after Dalrymple's death in 1808., 1808.
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Identifier: MS.25292
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes (1692-1751) was MP for Haddington Burghs, 1722-1734, and Auditor-General of the Exchequer, 1721-1751. He married Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington in 1725.
Dates:
1808.
Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns on the Peninsula., 1812-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23630-23631
Scope and Contents
The memoirs record James Stirling`s involvement in the Peninsular War campaign in Spain from 1 April 1812 to 11 November 1813. Included are descriptions of the towns and villages visited during the campaign, and details of British army troop movements.
Also included at the back of both volumes are lists of the places visited and cumulative totals of the distances travelled by the army during its deployment.
Dates:
1812-1813.
`Memoirs, of [Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of] campaigns on the Peninsula from 1st April 1812`., 1812.
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Identifier: MS.23630
Scope and Contents
The volume contains an account of the Battle of Salamanca, 22 July 1812, and a detailed description of 42nd Royal Highlanders stationing in Valladolid.Contained at the start of the memoirs is a map of Spain and Portugal highlighting geographical regions, and an engraving of the Duke of Wellington.There are four pages of sketches contained in the volume depicting the native Spaniards and their dress. Included at the back of the volume is a list of the...
Dates:
1812.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns in Spain, 1808, Netherlands, 1809, and the Peninsular War, 1812-1813.
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Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns on the Peninsula.
`Memoirs of [Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of the] campaigns of 1808 in Spain under Lieut General Sir John Moore, and of 1809, in the Islands of Zealand. Holland.`, 1808-1811.
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Identifier: MS.23629
Scope and Contents
James Stirling served during the 1808 Spanish campaign under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, culminating in the battle of Coruña, 1809. The memoirs start on 12 August 1808 and end on 23 January 1811 when the army returns to Spithead, England.The memoirs also contain an account of Stirling`s deployment to the Islands of Zeeland, Netherlands, during the Walcheren campaign which begins in June 1809 and ends in 1810 when the 42nd Royal Highlanders were brought home...
Dates:
1808-1811.
Memoirs of Dr Emile Joseph Dillon., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12382/48-52
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.
Dates:
Undated.
Memoirs of Lord Lynedoch covering his early military career, from 1792 to his escape from Mantua in 1796/7, dictated at Pisa, 1830, to his secretary, Alfred Waller., 1830.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16188-16190
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Military papers of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
Memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay and other material, in an eighteenth-century hand, corresponding to parts of Adv.MS.31.7.1, which was published as ‘Memoirs of the war carried on in Scotland and Ireland'., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3739
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
The Memoirs, etc. (folio 1; corresponding to pages 1-124 of the Bannatyne Club edition);
French letters to King William III and Portland, 1690 (folio 204; Bannatyne Club, pages 171-217);
Portions of the French account of the Irish campaign (folio 283).
The text contains verbal differences from that of Adv.MS.31.7.1.
Dates:
18th century.