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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:

Photocopy of typescript of Robert Stodart Wyld, "Memoir of James Wyld of Gilston and his Family. Also of Robert Stodart of Kailzie and Ormiston Hill".

 File
Identifier: Acc.10417
Dates: 1889.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photographs and watercolour portraits of, or assembled by, William Simpson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11877
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript of memoir "Notes and Recollections".

Dates: 1843-1893.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Precis and photocopy of lecture, 1934, on "The Submarine and Anti-submarine War, 1914-1918", delivered by A E M Cunninghame Graham, to the RAF Staff College, Andover.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5705
Scope and Contents

With photocopy account, 1941, of a voyage to Murmansk, "Random Recollections of Hitler`s War".

Dates: 1934, 1941.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Press cuttings, chiefly of reviews, 1862, of ‘The Luggie’ by David Gray, and of memoirs of Gray, 1874, undated., 1862, 1874, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8478A
Scope and Contents From the Series:

David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.

Dates: 1862, 1874, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch. / Press cuttings concerning David Gray.

Privately-printed memoir of Peter Mackay.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14481
Scope and Contents The memoir gives an account of Mackay's career in the Scottish Office from 1963 to 1995, with secondments to the Manpower Services Commission in the Department for Employment, London, 1983-86, and his public appointments and other professional work after 1995. Subjects covered include the relationship between St Andrews House and Westminster and Whitehall prior to devolution; civil service recruitment; working relationships with politicians including George Willis, Willie Ross, Dick Mabon,...
Dates: 2022.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Privately printed publication, 'Contemporary account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction of Lord Byron's Memoirs', by John Cam Hobhouse., 1870.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42300
Scope and Contents This is a privately printed work of John Cam Hobhouse. It gives his account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron and the burning of the memoirs of the poet in 1824.The pages have not been cut and are stored folded together in the correct order. The loose binding in which the pages are contained seems to have been originally intended for another publication, but a manuscript note has been added to reflect the current content. The printed pages and the binding...
Dates: 1870.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Papers of and concerning John Cam Hobhouse. / Manuscripts by John Cam Hobhouse, with related proofs. / Proofs, and privately printed edition of, 'Contemporary account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction of Lord Byron`s memoirs', by John Cam Hobhouse.

Proofs, and privately printed edition of, 'Contemporary account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction of Lord Byron`s memoirs', by John Cam Hobhouse., 1870.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42299-42300
Scope and Contents

The proofs and printed edition of this work by John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, detail two of the most controversial moments in life and reputation of Byron - the breakdown of his marriage and the burning of his memoirs. The work was originally privately printed in 1870, but then included in 'Recollections of a long life', which was edited by Lady Dorchester (the daughter of Hobhouse) and published by Murray between 1909 and 1911.

Dates: 1870.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Papers of and concerning John Cam Hobhouse. / Manuscripts by John Cam Hobhouse, with related proofs.

'Recollections of James Donaldson', of Broughton Hall, founder of Donaldson's Hospital by James Campbell, printer.

 Item
Identifier: MS.117
Dates: 1853.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'Recollections of my boyhood, with open-air-lessons of later years, by Thomas Edward (of Banff, shoemaker)’.

 File
Identifier: MS.2227
Scope and Contents

Four letters, 1883-1884, of Thomas Edward to David Douglas, bookseller, Edinburgh; proofs of Edward's apparently unpublished 'Recollections', as in MS.1662, with some manuscript corrections; proofs of other essays, also apparently unpublished, with corrections.

The title is in the hand of David Douglas.

Dates: 1883-1884.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Reminiscences, ? 1936, of the Reverend Dr E M Macphail.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8299
Scope and Contents

Concerning his service in Madras Christian College in 1886-1887 and of life in Madras at this time.

With letter, 1936, of Secretary of Madras Christian College Day Association to Macphail.

Dates: 1936 and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Reminiscences covering the years 1839 to 1881 of George Anderson from Dundee, indigo planter in India.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9969
Scope and Contents

Includes genealogical information about his family.

Dates: circa 1881.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Reminiscences of Andrew Macgeorge.

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Identifier: Acc.8341
Scope and Contents

Concerning his family, upbringing and social life.

With typed transcript.

Dates: 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Reminiscences of James Steuart.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3624/1-3
Dates: Circa 1860-circa 1886.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Reminiscences of travels in Greece of John M Cook.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11167
Scope and Contents

Includes two reports on Greek monuments.

Dates: 1930-1945.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Research notes, manuscripts and correspondence concerning, and proofs of, the 'Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino' (London, 1851), by James Dennistoun.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5524/1-47
Dates: 1845-1851, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Revised manuscript draft of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8471
Dates: 1983.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Script of broadcast of reminiscences of H W Meikle and H J C Grierson, with annotations by Grierson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5350
Dates: circa 1950-circa 1960.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Seven notebooks and a manuscript of Morley Jamieson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8004
Scope and Contents

Containing drafts of a memoir and associated short story.

Dates: 1980.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

‘Short account of the battles of Preston pans, Falkirk, and Culloden; by a gentleman who was in these actions’, written by Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart when in Scotland., 1745.

 Item
Identifier: MS.279
Scope and Contents

Also included are a letter of Macvey Napier to his nephew James Gibson Craig, 1846 (folio iii), and of James Dennistoun to James Gibson Craig, 1853 (folio i), which contain details of the history of the manuscript.

Dates: 1745.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.

'Short Account of the Lords way of Providence towards me in my Pilgrimage Journey', the religious memoirs of a lady., 1724.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1037
Scope and Contents

The memoirs are dated 1724 (folio 23 verso).

Dates: 1724.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and papers collected by Mr J R N Macphail, Kings Counsel, Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan.

Short memoir on the life of Sir James Wylie, written by his niece at the request of Robert Paul, the minister., 1899.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5164
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Although with the Paul Papers through the family connection with the Erskine Murrays these papers are to be considered complementary to the Erskine Murray Papers.

Dates: 1899.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva. / Correspondence and papers of the family of Erskine of Alva. / Assorted papers of and concerning the family of Erskine of Alva.

"Singapore and Afterwards", manuscript account of the fall of Singapore in 1942, by W D Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9948
Scope and Contents

With typed transcript, 1989.

Dates: circa 1943.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Six volumes of "scrapbooks" constituting the memoirs of David Douglas, bookseller, chronicling the years 1847-1903.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12309
Dates: 1903-1906.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.

 File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates: 1645-1936, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'The memoirs [and] reflections of Hr McNiell [of the Harp], written by himself', a manuscript copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50257
Scope and Contents The manuscript is in various hands.Title page, including an epigram, in Latin, of Cicero (folio iii).'Chap. I The Authors Parentage.' Information concerning MacNeill’s grandfather and father (pages 1-9).'Chap. II. An unfashionable picture of Domestic Life.' An account of the MacNeills’ domestic life at their home at Rosebank, near Roslin, and subsequently near Loch Lomond (pages 9-17).'Chap. 3d. Some account of the Author.' Information...
Dates: 1804, 1912.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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