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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.
"The 1878-1880 Royal Geographical Society Expedition to East Africa: the Diary of Keith Johnston", transcribed with explanatory notes by James McCarthy.
`The Bass Rock and Reminiscences of Days spent on it with Harold Raburn [sic] By William Douglas, 1929`.
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.
The First World War: Political, Social and Military Manuscript Sources. Series 1: The Haig Papers. Diaries and letters of Sir Douglas Haig. (Harvester Microform: Brighton, [n.d.].)
The Graham Brown Collection.
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
'The Journal of a square-peg:' diaries, of John M Reid, the author 'David Toulmin' (born 1913).
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.
Three diaries of members of the family of Graham-Moir of Leckie.
The diary for 1803 describes an archaeological tour in Sicily.
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.
Emily Jackson`s journal of her tour in Italy includes an account of a holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1887.
Tour of the Scottish Highlands, of R. Geddes.
Internal evidence suggests that the tour was undertaken between 1834 and 1861.
Transcript, circa 2007, of a diary kept by Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Gavin R V Hume-Gore, 1st Gordon Highlanders, 1914.
Includes transcripts of related documents, 1914-1918, and a copy of a photograph of Hume-Gore.
Transcript of parts of volumes xiv-xxiv, xxvi-xliii, of the diary of Archibald Johnston of Warriston.
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.
Transcript of the diaries of Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson.
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.
Transcriptions, 2003, of the diary of Andrew McGeorge, 1799-1838, and "Some Account of the family of Mcgeorge", 1881.
Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.
Includes:
"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934
letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell
verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.
Typescipt and manuscript journals of William Bell, Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Typescript and manuscript war diary of the Reverend David Cairns, padre with 131 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; with associated military maps, and a paper on the state of the reformed churches in Germany.
Typescript carbon copy of diary of South African War of James Bowstead Craik, as private in 19th Company, Imperial Yeomanry.
Typescript copy of an incomplete diary of Charles McKelvie, Isca, near Campbeltown.
Describing journey on S S Dunedin, with his sister, as an emigrant to Port Chalmers, New Zealand.
Typescript copy of diary of Captain D P Apthorp, Royal Norfolk Regiment.
Concerns time as prisoner of war of the Imperial Japanese Army.