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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Sir Alexander Christison (1828-1918), 1828-1941

 Sub-Fonds — Box CLX-A-342
Identifier: Coll-1817/5
Scope and Contents These papers contain: Manuscript notes for autobiography (x4 notebooks, quarto and foolscap) Transcript of old account books, journals, etc. covering period 1828-1904 Rough notes, 1851-1900 Copies of letters home, 1853 Two maps of North-west Provinces and Oudh. Drawn by A.C, 1906 (tracing paper) Typed copy of account of...
Dates: 1828-1941

Poems and autobiography of James Hutton

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1733
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 typescript bound copy "Autobiography of an outsider. Part I. Our village and our city", pp.36; 1 typescript bound copy "Autobiography of an outsider. Part II. Watson's", pp.33; 1 typescript bound copy of poems, "New Calydon", by James Hutton, pp.34; 1 typescript bound copy of poems, "City of the winds", by James Hutton,...
Dates: 1959-1971

Presentation of Lord Florey for Honorary Fellowship of the College, November 1967

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.247
Scope and Contents

Presentation by Norman Dott of Lord Florey for Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, dated November 1967. The paper was published in Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh see reference Harris 89 in Coll-32/A.3). The material consists of a typescript of the speech with manuscript corrections.

Dates: November 1967

Proposing motion to elect Lord Florey to Honorary Fellowship of the College, October 1967

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.246
Scope and Contents

Proposing motion by Norman Dott to elect Lord Florey to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, dated October 1967. The material includes some biographical notes on Florey.

Dates: October 1967

Reference note which reads 'Praeterita Ruskin', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/152
Scope and Contents

Reference note which reads 'Praeterita Ruskin', referring to the autobiography of John Ruskin.

Dates: 1894

'The Heritage of the Generations', February 1971

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.287
Scope and Contents

Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The Heritage of the Generations', dated February 1971. The talk was given to St Catherine's Argyle Youth Group. The material consists of the text of the talk (mainly reminiscences) and brief correspondence.

Dates: February 1971

Three notebooks and two letters of John Middleton Murry

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-480
Identifier: Coll-2097
Content Description This fonds consists of three notebooks and two letters written by John Middleton Murray.The first notebook contains texts written between 1915 and 1917, including an autobiographical essay and the first part of John Middleton Murry's verse drama 'Cinnamon and Angelica'. The second notebook contains the remainder of 'Cinnamon and Angelica', dated 3-24 December 1917. The third notebook contains notes on French and English literature and two journal entries, dated 19 April 1921 and...
Dates: 1915-1923; 1938-1939

Typescript by James Dick: Account of his boyhood in Scotland

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1900
Scope and Contents

Typescript by Colonel James Dick (1863-1926), containing an 'account of his boyhood in Scotland'.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century (before 1926)