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:
Typescript of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8472
Dates:
1983.
Typescript of Richard Paterson`s memoir of life at Blantyre Mission, Malawi.
File
Identifier: Acc.9785
Scope and Contents
Includes:
six letters, 1929-1933 and undated, of the Reverend Dr Alexander Hetherwick to Patterson
letter, 1948, of J G Katchigie also to Patterson.
Dates:
1929-1988 and undated.
Typescript of Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, "Memoirs of Delvine with Notes on the Clan MacKenzie".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9235
Dates:
1901.
Typescript of W A Craw, "West Foulden, Memories of a Berwickshire farm in the 1920s".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9386
Dates:
1986.
Typescript (with manuscript corrections) memoir entitled "Family Album" by George Blake .
Item
Identifier: Acc.12349
Dates:
1941-1944.
Typescripts compiled by Richard Davidson, "Old Dooars Days", and "Tea in India".
File
Identifier: Acc.9024
Scope and Contents
With associated photographs.
Dates:
circa 1930.
Typescripts, manuscripts, proofs, research notes and correspondence of David Thomson, author and radio producer.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10129/1-179
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the papers of David Thomson, author, researcher and BBC radio producer. It includes the scripts and correspondence of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.
Dates:
[1923]-1988.
Typescripts of 'John Philip Gibb (an autobiography)'.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14131/1-2
Content Description
The two volumes chronicle Gibb's life from his birth in 1872 to 1945.It includes an account of growing up in Edinburgh in the 1880s. After leaving school Gibb started work for Raimes, Clark & Co. wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemists of Leith. As a valuator for the company he went round Scotland valuing businesses which were for sale. In additon to his work life he also describes his holidays, pastimes (including walking, cycling, sailing and golf) and...
Dates:
1944-1946.
Typescripts of two memoirs by Helen Thom entitled "Towards Independence, 1963-1967" and "Return to the People`s Republic of Southern Yemen, 1968-1972".
File
Identifier: Acc.11705
Scope and Contents
Memoirs concern Christian Mission service in Aden and South Yemen.
Dates:
circa 1970-1979.
Unpublished memoir of George Douglas Brown, probably by David S Meldrum.
File
Identifier: Acc.10420
Scope and Contents
With draft essay, undated, of Brown on Hamlet.
Dates:
early 20th century.
Unpublished memoir, poems and bibliography of Gordon Jarvie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13261
Dates:
2011.
War time service experiences in 202 Field Company Royal Engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13336
Scope and Contents
War time service experiences in 202 Field Company Royal Engineers, 1939-1947. Memoirs, dictated February 2012, of Lieutenant Colonel Brian D. Mackenzie, describing his service with 202 Field Company, Royal Engineers, during the Second World War. Originally a Manchester Territorial Army Unit, 202 Field Company changed in June 1940 to 52nd (Lowland) Division. Mackenzie joined the company in 1943, whilst it was based in Scotland training for mountain warfare, a role which it was never to...
Dates:
1939-1968.
Working papers for the memoirs of Colin Simson Cadell, including audio cassettes and computer disks.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13280
Dates:
1996-1997.