Illustrated journals of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay's travels in Germany and The Imperial Hereditary States, 1795, 1796 and 1797. When he set out on his first tour, Charles Stuart was travelling alone apart from a servant and aged 18.

Charles Stuart compiled his journals not for 'amusement' but for the 'information' of his friends 'to recall the different fact witnessed, and the various situations in which I was placed'. They were compiled shortly after he made the tours from 'ample notes of every thing I both saw and heard and the observations of several inhabitants of Weimar'.

Charles Stuart comments on current affairs, the people he meets, their customs including dress, diet and entertainment together with their housing arrangements, transport, agriculture and economy.

The journal is illustrated with numerous pasted in watercolour drawings. The drawings are primarily of local people but there are some scenes, a town plan and a plan of an inn.

Acc.13970/1 includes a map marked with the route of Lord Stuart's journeys.

See Acc.13970/4 page 720 for a note recording that the journals were 'Transcribed by C. Piesse June 19th 1801'.

Lord Stuart's passports are pasted in at the back of Acc.13970/4.

There is a Table of Distances travelled throughout Lord Stuart's journeys in Acc.13970/4 inverted folios i-viii.