Memoirs.
Found in 366 Collections and/or Records:
`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.
Memoirs of Dr Emile Joseph Dillon., Undated.
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.
Memoirs of Edward Robarts, an ordinary seaman, describing his travels and adventures in the South Seas from 1797 to 1824, particularly his seven year stay on the Marquesas Islands.
The memoirs give an account of the ‘manners and customs’ of the natives together with a vocabulary of the Marquesas language.
A short poem, not in Edward Robarts` hand, has been written in pencil on the back flyleaf.
Memoirs of John Brand, Minister of Borrowstounness.
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.
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.
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.
‘Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott’ by William Dalgleish, Scott’s butler.
'Memoirs of the family of Grant. Written in the year 1752', being a history and genealogy of the Grants of Grant and several of their principal cadets.
The text was compiled in 1752, but has additions up to 1773, and is written on paper watermarked 1811. The manuscript may originally have been compiled by William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, the account of whose life is unusually detailed (folio 48) and whose Hanoverian politics are reflected in the account of some eighteenth-century Grants (for example folio 43).
'Memoirs of the House of Oliphant', intended as chapter VI of a work, 'Miscellaneous memorials of Perthshire'., 19th century.
With 'Memorials of Gorthy', being an account of the lairds, intended as part of chapter V (folio 56).
Memoirs of the Rev Donald J. Gillies.
Memoirs concerning life on the island of Saint Kilda before the evacuation of the last residents in 1930, his emigration to Canada and his pastoral work in Vancouver.