Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Browse Resources: 251 - 275 of 586

Journal of a city missionary in Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5013
Scope and Contents

Recording meetings and visits in Stockbridge and the Canongate.

Dates: 1858-1862.

Journal of a Miss Ewbank of York, covering the period 9 September 1803 to 11 September, 1805.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9481
Scope and Contents

The narrative opens with an account of a tour in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, but most of the text is concerned with social life in York. The writer was a niece of the Reverend Andrew Ewbank, rector of Londesborough, Yorkshire, and many entries relate to his family. Amongst prominent personalities are Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, the novelist, and Dr Henry Moyes, a blind Scottish lecturer on popular science. A few pages have been torn out.

Dates: 1803-1805.

Journal of a Scots seaman.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9850
Scope and Contents

The journal contains a very brief outline of events during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars, chiefly against the French and Spanish fleets in the Mediterranean. Little of the action is described in detail, but there are some vivid accounts of naval life and discipline.

Dates: 1795-1802.

Journal of a tour of Ireland and Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14227
Scope and Contents

According to the tour's anonymous (probably Irish) author, the tour party consisted of: ‘a man and his wife who deserted their children; a man in love; a married woman who absconded from the husband, and a young lady in search of one’. In Scotland they spend time in the Lowlands including Glasgow, Edinburgh, the Trossachs, Stirling, Dalkeith and Roslin. The tourists are interested both in Scotland’s scenery and its industry, particularly its textile manufacture.

Dates: 1836.

Journal of a tour of Scotland of Elizabeth Cowburn.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14154
Scope and Contents

Elizabeth Cowburn departs from London, travelling through Scotland by train, steamer and carriage. Places visited include Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dunkeld, Blair Atholl, Inverness, Stirling and Iona. The journal includes pencil sketchess and pasted in printed illustrations.

Dates: 1854

Journal of an un-named law apprentice (later a member of the Faculty of Advocates).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11721
Scope and Contents

Details his life in Perth and Edinburgh, holidays in the Highlands and Skye, a trip to the Great Exhibition, London, and travels in the south of England.

Dates: 1850-1852.

Journal of Francis Goode Cuningham`s trip to New Zealand, with related news cuttings and two photographs.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13089
Scope and Contents Francis Goode Cuningham`s journal describes an ill-starred venture to export 2000 sheep from Australia to New Zealand, an entreprise which he undertakes with a New Zealand sheep farmer called A.G. Chalmers, who had already secured a station near Otago. Cuningham is to take a half share and see what New Zealand might hold for him in the way of a future. His journal contains many observations about the landscape and geography of parts of New Zealand which had not been properly surveyed....
Dates: March-September 1858.

Journal of James Gall.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8874

Journal of John Calder (1743-1783), minister of Rosskeen.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14279
Scope and Contents

The journal covers the period from January 1775 to December 1782, but there are many gaps, the largest being from January 1779 to October 1781. The entries are brief and largely of a personal and religious nature, although mention is made of social events and parochial duties.

Dates: 1775-1782.

Journal of John Ivor Murray, army surgeon (1824-1903).

 Item
Identifier: MS.9843
Scope and Contents The first pages contain an account of John Murray’s voyage from Shanghai to Hong Kong in February 1854. The greater part of the journal is concerned with his homeward journey, and describes the events from the time of Murray's final departure from Shanghai in January 1855 (folio 15), until his arrival at Constantinople in August the same year, when he offered his medical services to the allied forces at Sebastopol. It includes a detailed account, with occasional illustrations, of his travels...
Dates: 1854-1855.

Journal of John Paton.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8273
Scope and Contents

Paton was pressed in to the Royal Navy.

Including description of the Battle of Cape St Vincent.

Dates: 1778-1789.

Journal of Robert Hathorn Stewart of Physgill.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10696-10698
Scope and Contents Until March 1771, Robert Stewart served with the Royal Fusiliers and was stationed at Fort William and Chatham. His journal for this period chiefly concerns his social life, though it does include references to courts martial, marches to Berwick and Chatham, a review by the king at Greenwich (folio 50), and visits to Chatham dockyard. In 1771, Stewart returned to Physgill House in Whithorn, and the rest of his journal concerns the management of the estate and social life in Wigtownshire,...
Dates: 1770-1772, 1777-1784.

Journal of Sapper - Jack, of Blackhall, Midlothian.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.3607
Scope and Contents

Describing service in the Royal Engineers in South Africa and German East Africa.

Dates: 1916-1917.

Journal of Sir Walter Scott, with letters and other papers.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3389
Scope and Contents The journal, printed, as in MS.1570, but covering the period from 20 November 1825 to 13 April 1831, and other material collected by John Gibson Lockhart for the ‘Life’, all printed on one side of the page, with manuscript corrections of the text, chiefly typographical.The material other than the journal consists of Mrs John Davy's Malta journal, 1831 (folio 437); letters of Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Scott of Harden, 1832 (folio 444 verso), and others, 1828-1830 (folio 448 verso);...
Dates: 1825-1832.

Journal (one of a series) possibly of Margaret, 2nd wife of George Haldane of Gleneagles.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10411
Scope and Contents

Consists largely of religious reflections.

Dates: 1807-1815.

Filtered By

  • Subject: Diaries. X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Diaries. 584
Correspondence. 162
Photographs. 80
Notebooks. 77
Letters. Correspondence. 73
∨ more
Typescripts. 66
Notes. 65
Microfilms. 63
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 58
Manuscripts. 55
Poetry. 47
Copies. Derivative objects. 35
Articles. 34
Photocopies. 26
Travel journals. 24
Accounts. 21
Drafts. Documents. 18
Lectures. 18
Speeches. Documents. 18
Photograph albums. 16
Transcripts 16
Autobiographies. 14
Financial records. 14
Plays. 14
Sketches. 14
Maps. Cartographic materials. 13
Documents. 12
Drawings. Visual works. 12
Legal documents. 12
Lists. 12
Novels. 12
Publications. 12
Short stories. 12
Commonplace books. 11
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 11
Memorandums. 10
Printed materials. Object genre. 10
Travel journals 10
Account books. 9
Reports 9
Reports. 9
Second World War (1939-1945). 9
Sermons 9
Songs. Musical compositions. 9
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 8
Excerpts. 8
Genealogies. 8
Letter books. 8
Memoirs. 8
Translations. Documents. 8
Essays. 7
Family papers. 7
Personal papers. 7
Sketches 7
South Africa. Africa - South Africa. Nation. Longitude: 26.0000. Latitude: -30.0000. 7
Biographies. 6
Certificates 6
First World War (1914-1918). 6
Fragments. 6
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 6
Histories. 6
Passports. 6
Professional papers. 6
Scripts. Documents 6
Watercolours. Paintings. 6
Albums. 5
Alps (mountain system). Europe. Longitude: 010 00 00 E. Latitude: 46 25 00 N. 5
Annotations. 5
Catalogues. 5
Inventories. 5
Journals. Accounts. 5
Literature (writings). 5
Obituaries. 5
Russia. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 47.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 5
Address books. Reference sources. 4
Books 4
Canada. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -96.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 4
Ephemera. 4
Estate records. 4
Extracts. 4
Illustrations. Layout features. 4
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 4
Lecture notes. 4
Logs. Records. 4
London. Europe - United Kingdom - England - Greater London. Inhabited place. Longitude: -0.1667. Latitude: 51.5000. 4
Memoranda Book. 4
Minutes. Administrative records. 4
Mountaineering. 4
Postcards. 4
Programmes. 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Scrapbooks 4
Testimonials. 4
Transcripts. 4
United States. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -98.0000. Latitude: 38.0000. 4
Administrative records. 3
Calculations. 3
Cashbooks. 3
Certificates. 3
Contracts. Agreements. 3
+ ∧ less
 
Language
English 405
Undetermined 179
Multiple languages 5
German 2
Chinese 1
∨ more  
Names
Scottish Mountaineering Club 7
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 5
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 3
Gall, James, publisher, 1784-1874 3
Smith, Lilian Adam, 1866-1949 (née Buchanan, wife of Sir George, Knight) 3
∨ more
Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 3
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 2
Angus, Elizabeth Siddons, b.1883 (Daughter of Major General John Angus) 2
Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 2
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 2
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 2
Beaton, Patrick Grant, merchant in Venezuela, fl 1824-1826 2
Bonar, James, Solicitor of Excise, 1757-1821 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 2
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 2
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 2
Craigmount School for Girls, Edinburgh 2
Dease, William H, farm worker, fl 1816-1818 2
Dillon, Emile Joseph (philologist, author and journalist, pseudonym 'E B Lanin') (1854-1933) 2
Free Church of Scotland 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Graham, Susan Roope, mother of Robert Chellas, Lord of the Barony of Skipness, née Schuyler, 1811-1895 2
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hawthorne, Harry, Sergeant, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, b 1917 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 2
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Ogilvie, Iain Hamish (civil engineer) 2
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 2
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 2
Robertson, Eric Harald Macbeth, artist, 1887-1941 2
Scott, James, Major, fl 1945-2015 2
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 2
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 2
Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, Knight, explorer, 1874-1922 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 2
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 2
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 2
Wright, Ronald William Vernon Selby, Minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh, 1908-1995 2
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Amman, Alexander, Polish Army, fl 1939-1942 1
Anderson, Robert Burn, Lieutenant, 1st European Regiment, East India Army, 1833-1860 1
Anita Guthrie Dent, née Williamson, 1868-1948 (daughter of Stephen Williamson MP) 1
Annandale and Eskdale Regiment of Local Militia 1
Annunzio, Gabriele d', poet, 1863-1938 1
Anstruther, Mary Elma (née Hovell-Thurlow, wife of Arthur Wellesley, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, then Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce) 1
Apthorp, D P, Captain, Royal Norfolk Regiment, fl 1942-1945 1
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Corps of Royal Engineers 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Engineers 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Arundel, Honor, novelist and journalist, 1919-1973 1
Ascherson, Charles Neal, b. 1932 (journalist, writer, and historian) 1
Baillie, May, music teacher, St Leonards School, St Andrews, fl 1903-1910 1
Barclay, Annie, wife of David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1948 1
Barclay, David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1946 1
Barnet, Alexander Avon, Commander, Royal Navy, 1904-1985 1
Baume, Louis Charles, mountaineer, 1919-1993 1
Beattie, Thomas, Muckledale, fl 1806 1
Bell, Alan Scott, library and literary consultant, 1942-2018 1
Bell, William, architect, b 1881 1
Bethune, John Drinkwater, colonel, historian, formerly Drinkwater, 1762-1844 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821 1
Bienert, Werner, German Language Teacher, 1902-1988 1
Birnie, Arthur, Lecturer in Economic History, University of Edinburgh, b 1890 1
Blackwood, Algernon Henry, writer of supernatural fiction, 1869-1951 1
Blackwood, William, William (publisher) 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bloxham, family, Banbury 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Bogie, David Wilson, Sheriff, 1946-1999 1
Borland, John, 1796-1885 (merchant and emigrant) 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Boyd, James, Edinburgh, schoolboy, fl 1850 1
Brocklebank, Thomas Anthony, mountaineer and teacher, 1908-1984 1
Brodie, James, of Brodie, fl 1671-1673 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Andrew, South Africa, telegraph controller, fl 1899-1905 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Henry, Galashiels, textile manufacturer, d 1885 1
Brown, John, Minister of Whitburn Secession Church, 1754-1832 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Brown, Thomas Graham, neurophysiologist and mountaineer, 1882-1965 1
+ ∧ less