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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Account by John Farwell junior of his visit to the Osage Indians in Kansas in 1870.
With copies of associated papers and a covering letter.
Account, intended for publication and heavily corrected, of a voyage from Southampton to St Lucia in the West Indies and of subsequent travels in the United States.
The paper is watermarked 1851 but reference to the destruction of Point à Pître by an earthquake (folio 104) suggest that some of the journeys described took place in 1843.
The author, an Anglican clergyman, served on St Lucia (the scenery, fauna and religious beliefs of which he describes at some length) for 18 months before travelling with his wife to North Carolina and thence to New York.
Account of travels of W Fordyce Brown.
Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.
Anonymous account of a tour in Scotland, with an associated letter.
Author`s copy of James Logan Mack, "The Border Line" (1st Edition, Edinburgh, 1924), printed on rag paper, containing letters and other items tipped or pasted in.
Copy of Martin Martin, "A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland" (1716), with annotations, 1720, of John Toland.
Copy of Thomas Pennant, "A Tour in Scotland" (London: Benjamin White, 1776, 4th edition), with marginalia by the author and pencil corrections by his son David.
With a letter, 1806, of Longman and Co declining to reprint the work.
Corrected manuscript account of Robert Inglis of his ascent of Monte Rosa.
Corrected typescript drafts of Naomi Mitchison, "Mucking Around: Five Continents over Fifty Years" (1981).
Correspondence and papers concerning Richard M D Grange, "A Short History of the Scottish Dress" (1967).
With typescript and illustrations, 1970, for Grange`s unpublished, "What to see on Mull".
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
"Excursion from Friars Carse to Carleverock [sic] made by Robert Riddell of Glenriddell 1787".
George Bryson, "Spain, what I saw of it during a Holiday Tour", illustrated with photographs.
Letters and copies of letters to Hamish Brown.
Includes Don Johnson`s account of a journey from Land`s End to John O`Groats, 1994, text of a talk by Sir Alasdair T Munro on "Hugh Munro and his Tables", 1994, and Nigel Springett`s account of a visit to India, 1989.
Literary papers of Tom Pow.
Manuscript of Hamish M Brown, "Scotland: Coast to Coast".
With papers of the first ten years of the Ultimate Challenge, an annual walk across Scotland.
Manuscript of the first half (pp 1-108) of William E Baxter, "A Winter in India".
Manuscript revisions by Robert McLellan for "The Isle of Arran" (2nd edition, 1976).
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Microfilm of 'Walk across Africa’ (Edinburgh and London, 1864), by James Augustus Grant.
Microfilm of account, intended for publication and heavily corrected, of a voyage from Southampton to St Lucia in the West Indies and of subsequent travels in the United States.
"Notes of an excursion from York to Edinburgh... and return by a few of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland".
The author of this anonymous manuscript is probably George Todd of York.