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52 letters of Michael Carmichael to his father.
File
Identifier: Acc.11539
Scope and Contents
Letters concern two tours in Europe, his first in Germany and the second in Italy and France.
Dates:
1819-1820 and 1825-1827.
'A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent' bound with a manuscript tour, 1841, of Thomas Davison Bland of Kippax Hall, Yorkshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14274
Scope and Contents
The volume includes a copy of the 1841 edition of Murray's handbook alongside a handritten account of a tour taken that year, a list of recommended hotels and a summary of travelling expenses.
Dates:
1841
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13710
Scope and Contents
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, 1918, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland, early 1918.Alpin MacGregor was a Sergeant Major in the 1st Gordon Highlanders. In the regular army when the First World War broke out, MacGregor`s was amongst the first battalions to form the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. In the retreat following the battle at...
Dates:
1918
Biographical memoir and notes on Charles Hodge Mackie, compiled by Anne Mackie.
File
Identifier: Acc.9177
Scope and Contents
Includes an account of their visits to France, 1892-1893, and meetings with Gauguin, Sérusier and Vuillard.
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13514
Scope and Contents
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Dates:
1826-1865, undated
Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13690
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1914-1921Letters and postcards of and addressed to Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1914-1921. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were...
Dates:
1914-1921
Diary and notes of Mary Stewart Richardson.
File
Identifier: Acc.5729
Scope and Contents
Concerning her nursing service in France.
Dates:
1914-1915.
Diary of Henry Dyce Paterson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10596
Scope and Contents
Records a tour of France and Switzerland.
Dates:
1864.
Diary of John Maxwell, of Baillieston.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7074
Scope and Contents
Detailing travels in France and Switzerland.
Dates:
1870-1871.
Diary of Joseph Mercer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7952
Scope and Contents
Concerning a tour in France and Italy.
Dates:
1778-1779.
Grand tour journal of Robert Campbell of Auchmannoch
Item
Identifier: Acc.13919
Scope and Contents
The journal covers a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy untaken between 29 June 1829 and early August 1830.
Dates:
1829-1830
Illustrated accounts of trips to France and Scotland by the family of Charles Foote Gower.
Item
Identifier: MS.29498
Dates:
1854-1862.
Journal of a continental tour of Andrew MacInnes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13701
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour to France, Switzerland and Germany by Andrew MacInnes and `Richard`. At the back of the volume are accounts of expenses on the tour, mileages and a number of Scottish songs. The notebook is bound in a larger twentieth century volume together with a full transcript and a letter of 1928 of Andrew MacInnes, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, son of the diarist, to his nephew Clayton McCall donating the journal to him. Andrew MacInnes and his companion...
Dates:
1830
Journal of a tour in France, Switzerland and Italy, by Scotish traveller of the Anderson family.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7551
Dates:
1864.
Journal of Margaret Aytoun.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7291
Scope and Contents
Describing a tour through Holland, Belgium, the Rhineland and Northern France.
Dates:
1840.
Journal of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents
The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates:
1852-1867
Journalist's notebooks of Neal Ascherson.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13676/1-185
Scope and Contents
The notebooks and engagement diaries cover Ascherson's career as correspondent for the Manchester Guardian (1956-57), The Scotsman (1959-60), Observer (1960-1975 and 1979-1990), and The Independent on Sunday (1990-1998), as well as his later career as a writer and academic. They contain descriptive notes relating to his research and reporting on international and home politics and affairs. From 1987, the notebooks also contain detailed personal diary entries.Ascherson's time as...
Dates:
1957-2013
Laissex-passer to enter France granted to "le Sr Cochran".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7167
Dates:
9 June 1762.
Letter book and correspondence, concerning the wine trade in Bordeaux and French trade with Scotland generally.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6552
Dates:
1717-1741.
Letter of Andrew Hay to John Hay of Alderston.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10961
Scope and Contents
Concerns the purchase of books in France and Holland.
Dates:
1699.
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families, relating to the First World War and life in Australia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13540
Scope and Contents
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families. The papers consist of an Army pay book, 1887-1893, of Private James Reid, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; a letter from Andrew Reid to his parents, 16 December [1916], describing his experiences on the Somme front during the First World War; 2 letters, 6 January 1918, of Mary King (nee Reid) to her mother, and to her sister, sent from New South Wales, Australia; a photograph of Mary with her husband, Andrew...
Dates:
1887-1920
Letters of Angus Graham to his sister, Dorothy Vaughan Johnson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9390
Scope and Contents
Written while on active service in France and Egypt.
Dates:
1914-1918.
Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13711
Scope and Contents
Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1915-1916.Letters and postcards of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1915-1916. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were taken prisoner. ...
Dates:
1915-1916.
Notebook of Thomas Philip Graham of Airth.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9335
Scope and Contents
Contains notes made during his military studies in France.
Dates:
1861.