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 189 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9037-is now MS.50257
Dates:
circa 1780-1818.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A copy, in a hand of the late 17th century, of the `Memoirs` of Walter Pringle (folio 1). These were first published in 1723 from a copy of the original manuscript by James Pringle of Greenknowe, 1684. The relationship of the present manuscript to that copy is unknown.(ii) A detached leaf, headed Section XIX and paginated 81-82, concerning the history of Clan Chattan (folio 35). Written in a small late 17th-century...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Copy of typescript of "G S Fraser: A Memoir" by Paddy Fraser.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11726
Dates:
circa 1999.
Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.
File
Identifier: Acc.12887
Scope and Contents
Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.
Dates:
circa 2007.
Corrected typescript of Greville MacDonald, "The Story of a Sinn Feiner"
Item
Identifier: Acc.9712
Dates:
early 20th century.
Corrected typescripts of Malcolm Slesser, "Red Peak: a Personal Account of the British-Soviet Pamir Expedition 1962" (London, 1964).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5091
Scope and Contents
With three published works of Slesser.
Dates:
circa 1964.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin, and George Robert Gleig, author of ‘The Subaltern’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3869-3872
Scope and Contents
Also included is some correspondence of Sir Henry George Ward, a connection of Henry J S Bailey's family, and of Bailey himself.
Dates:
1787-1927, undated.
‘Crawfurd’s genealogical collections’, containing memoirs and scattered notes of families by George Crawfurd, in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.8
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Description of his ascent of Mont Blanc in 1825, by Markham Sherwill.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5994
Dates:
1835.
Diary, two letters and typescript reminiscences of Sergeant Harry Hawthorne, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
File
Identifier: Acc.12568
Scope and Contents
Lance Sergeant Harry Hawthorne served in the 5th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borders during World War II. He was made a prisoner of War in early February 1945 and released by British troops on 2 May 1945. This small collection contains some correspondence and several manuscript and typescript extracts from his diary, which provide an insight into his experiences during the war.Contains the following:1. Letter from Major A.D. Macdonald, C.C. D. Company, 5th...
Dates:
1945, [circa 1980-1989], undated.
Draft manuscript of the introduction and book I, chapters 1 and 2 of `Forty-three Years at the Cathedral Perth 1883-1926` by the Reverend George T S Farquhar, Dean of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Dep.366
Dates:
1926, or after.
Fair copy of the text printed as ‘Memoirs of the secret services of John Macky’, without the introduction.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.6
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
"Fifty Years a Reader: Memories of the National Library" by Donald Whyte.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11871
Scope and Contents
Includes bibliography of works written from research in the National Library of Scotland.
Dates:
circa 2000.
"Forty Years Ago" a manuscript memoir by Alexander Simpson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11916
Scope and Contents
Describes life in Johnshaven and Benholm, Kincardineshire.
Dates:
circa 1920-1965.
Genealogical material relating to various families in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.5
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8924/1-45
Dates:
1511-1951, undated.
Illustrated typescript of "My Bit in the South African War, 1899-1900-1901" by Captain Cecil C Daniel, the Royal Scots.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12396
Dates:
circa 1901.
Inscribed copy of George S Robertson, "Reminiscences of an Orkney Nonagenarian" (1977).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10199
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter of Robertson.
Dates:
1977.
"Interrupted Odyssey", an unpublished memoir of Henry Curran.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12620
Scope and Contents
Memoir describes Curran`s time as an engine-room boy on a Norwegian tanker in an Atlantic convoy of 1942, and his six week imprisonment in Galveston, Texas, after jumping ship.
Dates:
circa 2006.
Journal of Morley Jamieson and manuscript of his "Echoes and Eccentrics: a Personal Account of Bookselling 1942-1966"
File
Identifier: Acc.8878
Dates:
1961-1984.
Journals and other papers of David Wilson Bogie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13267
Scope and Contents
The papers include a memoir of David Bogie`s time at George Watson`s College, an account of the Law Faculty at Edinburgh University and memorials of: the Faculty of Advocates; the Court of Session in the 1970s, and also of the Shrieval Bench in Aberdeen. The papers are accompanied by notes by Alan Bell, Bogie`s unofficial literary executor.
Dates:
1960-1999.