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Small notebooks written almost entirely in pencil containing part of a diary of an officer of the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons (Hussars), probably Edward Simpson Grey, whilst on service in India.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15394-15400
Scope and Contents The first six volumes cover the period from 5 October 1857, when he embarked from Ireland, to 12 January 1860, and the seventh from 21 November 1863 to 27 April 1864, when he returned to England. Although the notebooks are numbered consecutively (perhaps in another hand) from 1 to 7 it seems clear that if the diary was kept continuously, several more notebooks, covering the period from 13 January 1860 to 20 November 1863, must be missing. Although none of the notebooks is signed, it seems...
Dates: 1857-1864.

`The Bass Rock and Reminiscences of Days spent on it with Harold Raburn [sic] By William Douglas, 1929`.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13446
Scope and Contents

At the back of the volume, are notes on the history of the Bass Rock. A letter of Ruth Raeburn to William Douglas, 1930, press cuttings and articles are pasted in or loosely enclosed.

Dates: 1929 - 1929

The Graham Brown Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4338/1-247
Scope and Contents

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1877-1962.

'The Journal of a square-peg:' diaries, of John M Reid, the author 'David Toulmin' (born 1913).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26260-26275
Scope and Contents

John M Reid spent much of his life as a farm servant in Aberdeenshire, writing in his spare time. As well as recording day-to-day events on the farm, his diaries contain comments on books and films, reflections on current affairs, copies of letters and reminiscences of his earlier life. He later revised the diaries for publication, making additions and deletions.

Dates: 1946-1956.

Three diaries of members of the family of Graham-Moir of Leckie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8146
Scope and Contents

The diary for 1803 describes an archaeological tour in Sicily.

Dates: 1803, 1853-1856.

Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.23625-23628
Scope and Contents

Emily Jackson`s journal of her tour in Italy includes an account of a holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1887.

Dates: 1884-1892.

Tour of the Scottish Highlands, of R. Geddes.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14242
Scope and Contents

Internal evidence suggests that the tour was undertaken between 1834 and 1861.

Dates: Mid 19th century.

Transcript, circa 2007, of a diary kept by Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Gavin R V Hume-Gore, 1st Gordon Highlanders, 1914.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12782
Scope and Contents

Includes transcripts of related documents, 1914-1918, and a copy of a photograph of Hume-Gore.

Dates: circa 2007.

Transcript of parts of volumes xiv-xxiv, xxvi-xliii, of the diary of Archibald Johnston of Warriston.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6247-6259
Scope and Contents

The transcript, though incomplete, contains, in addition to the material used in the printed text, prayers, religious meditations, and particulars of the health and establishment of Archibald Johnston's family.

Dates: 1655-1661.

Transcript of the diaries of Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12121
Scope and Contents

Robertson discribes his artwork and other activities, and artistic life in Edinburgh. Includes indexes to the diaries and biographical notes on persons mentioned in the text.

Dates: 1907-1924.

Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents

Includes:

"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934

letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell

verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.

Dates: 1934-1964 and undated.

Typescript copy of an incomplete diary of Charles McKelvie, Isca, near Campbeltown.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6937
Scope and Contents

Describing journey on S S Dunedin, with his sister, as an emigrant to Port Chalmers, New Zealand.

Dates: 1879.

Typescript copy of diary of Captain D P Apthorp, Royal Norfolk Regiment.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9676
Scope and Contents

Concerns time as prisoner of war of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Dates: 1942-1945.

Typescript copy of journals kept by John Borland, emigrant to the USA.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14314
Scope and Contents The typescript, compiled by Borland's granddaughter Chloe Kearns, comprises a copy of Borland's reminiscences about his early life in Scotland and the lives of his children, apparently written on or after June 1882, and a copy of Borland's journal of his passage from Stewarton, East Ayrshire, to the United States of America, followed by a trip up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis, in 1843. With photographs of John Borland and his wife Mary Borland, née Jamison, and...
Dates: 1843, 1882

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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
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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
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