Autobiographies
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
4 versions of 'Reflections on personal experience' , 1964
File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.223
Scope and Contents
4 versions of a lecture by Norman Dott, 'Reflections on personal experience', dated 1964. These talks related to Dott's own career, including personal and professional material, given to various Edinburgh societies, principally the Rotary Club of Edinburgh, August 1964 and the Soroptimist Club of Edinburgh, September 1964. The material consists of 4 versions of the talk, all different or with different manuscript corrections, and brief correspondence with club secretaries regarding the talks.
Dates:
1964
Address by Norman Dott to Edinburgh University Club of Bristol, January 1962
File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.162
Scope and Contents
Address by Norman Dott to Edinburgh University Club of Bristol, dated January 1962. The lecture mainly mainly contains autobiographical reminiscences. The material consists of 2 copies of the address, one with manuscript revisions and extensions; and correspondence with George L. Alexander.
Dates:
January 1962
Address to the Borders Clinical Club, January 1964-March 1964
File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.205
Scope and Contents
Address by Norman Dott to the Borders Clinical Club, dated January 1964. The material includes autobiographical material on 'Medical Travels' and notes for a similar talk given to Kirkcaldy Round Table, dated March 1964.
Dates:
January 1964-March 1964
'An itinerant medical man', 1962
File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.174
Scope and Contents
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'An itinerant medical man'. The Talk was given to the Colinton Parish Church Literary Society, dated December 1962. The material consists of a manuscript of the talk, and correspondence. Dott was born in Colinton and both talk and correspondence contain reminiscences.
Dates:
1962
Autobiographical documents relating to David Sugden's career, 2022
Series
Identifier: Coll-2044/3
Scope and Contents
This series contains typed documents authored by David Sugden concerning his studies, his career, and his academic and scientific achievements.It includes:
- "CV 2022": an extensive CV with personal information, studies, appointments, research and teaching activities, prizes and awards, research students he supervised, scientific lectures, and publications (numbered).
- "Personal thoughts on work": two autobiographical texts written for his family where...
Dates:
2022
Autobiographical notes, curriculum vitae, lists of appointments and publications, prepared by Dott for the American College of Surgeons 1967 and regularly updated by him to 1972, 1967-1972
File
Identifier: Coll-32/A.1
Scope and Contents
Autobiographical notes, curriculum vitae, lists of appointments and publications, prepared by Dott for the American College of Surgeons 1967 and regularly updated by him to 1972. The notes are in sections as follows, many with pencilled notes and dates by Dott:
Personal;
Academic distinctions, appointments, research;
Academic appointments;
(untitled)...
Dates:
1967-1972
Commonplace book of William H. Peyton
Item — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2058
Content Description
Commonplace book of William H. Peyton, indexed, c. 80,000 words. Copious notebook kept some of the time when the writer was visiting France and Switzerland, with references to Darwin and Huxley, and an autobiography at p. 181. Dated 1893-1898.
Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.
Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.
Dates:
1893-1898
Correspondence from Percival Bailey to Norman Dott, 1965
File
Identifier: Coll-32/H.27
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Percival Bailey to Norman Dott, dated 1965. The brief correspondence was written to accompany a copy of his autobiographical paper 'Eulogium Magistrorum Meorum', and a typescript copy of 'Pepper Pot', Bailey's account of his work with Harvey Cushing, which are included in the folder.
Dates:
1965
'God's Children', March 1968
File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.249
Scope and Contents
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'God's Children'. The talk was given to the Edinburgh Merchant Company Teachers' Association, dated March 1968. The material consists of text of the talk; and correspondence including letters of thanks. The content of the talk is largely autobiographical.
Dates:
March 1968
‘Loose Leaf M.S.S. [manuscripts] of “Book”’, c 1929
File
Scope and Contents
‘Loose Leaf M.S.S. [manuscripts] of “Book”’. Several loose draft sheets of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s autobiography, A Life of Song, incomplete, several smaller pieces of paper attached to the larger sheets, 26 x 20.5cm, 80 pages, manuscript & typescript.
Dates:
c 1929