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Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13436
Scope and Contents
The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.
Dates:
1798-1854, undated
Diary of Daniel Murray Smillie, officer in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during WW1.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13748
Scope and Contents
Papers of Daniel Murray Smillie, written whilst serving as an officer with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during the First World War. The son of Robert Smillie, trade unionist and politician, Daniel Murray Smillie appears to have enlisted in 1915. The papers include a diary, 30 August to 17 November 1916, which gives an insight into the work of the RAVC at the veterinary hospital at Bulford, covering such subjects as the treatment of horses. More general themes are also covered...
Dates:
1916-1919.
Diary of George H Scott-Douglas of Springwood Park.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8290
Scope and Contents
Concerning his army experiences in Ireland and Corfu.
Dates:
1845-1846.
Illustrated log books of the yachts ‘Norma’ and ‘Coquette’, of cruises off the West Coast of Scotland, and also to Brittany and the Channel Islands. Both yachts were owned by Sir Thomas Newnham Deane (1828-1899), an Irish architect. The logs were probably written by his friend, Joseph Manley Todd. They are illustrated with delightful, often humorous, pen and wash drawings by Deane of the party and places they visited.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13216
Dates:
1868-1880.
Journal of an extended visit to Scotland and Ireland by an anonymous female Swiss teacher.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13318
Scope and Contents
This journal was written by a Swiss female teacher on an extended visit to Scotland and Ireland during the First World War. There are descriptions of time spent in Edinburgh, particularly Greyfriars Church, Caroline Park and Granton, also visits to Rosslyn Chapel, Perth, and Craigo House near Montrose. While in Montrose she worked in a factory manufacturing hospital supplies. There is a detailed account of the events of Armistice Day, 1918. At the back are a number of recipes for cakes and...
Dates:
1917-1919
Seven letters of William Carstares to William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University.
File
Identifier: Acc.9886
Scope and Contents
Concerning events in Ireland and Flanders.
Dates:
1690-1691.