Notebooks containing 'Resolutions, Remarks, Minutes, Observations, and Travelling Memorandum' made on a journey from Newcastle into Scotland by coach and on horseback during the winter of 1795-1796.
Scope and Contents
The record stops abruptly soon after the commencement of the third volume, on 14 January, when the writer is passing Blair [Atholl]. This English traveller has been identified as John Pease (1775-1808) of the Quaker family of Pease, cloth merchants in Leeds, by Peter Barber, who has printed the full text in 'Journal of a traveller in Scotland', in 'Scottish Historical Review', volume xxxvi (1957).
Dates
- Creation: 1795-1796.
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
3 Volumes ; Small octavo.
Language of Materials
English, Old (ca.450-1100)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1956, by Peter Barber, Street, Somerset, through the good offices of Professor W C Dickinson, Military Cross, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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