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`Journal kept during travels in Holland 1668 (in Danish)`, containing the travels of a Danish nobleman, who accompanied the Danish Prince George to Holland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.13
Dates:
8 June-19 September 1668.
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 Month in Scotland by M`, Rev. J.J. Twist, Rector of Holy Innocents Church, Manchester.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13571
Scope and Contents
John James Twist and his travelling companion, C.P. Purton, travelled by rail from Wolverhampton for a month`s holiday in Scotland. In Scotland they took the coach and and steamer, but lalso walked, visiting Lanark, Edinburgh, Burntisland, Loch Leven, Perth, Oban, Inverary, Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Dunkeld, Aberfeldy, Loch Tay, Killin, Glencoe, Loch Katrine, Callendar, Stirling and Alloa.John James Twist comments, often humorously, on places visited, their lodgings and people they...
Dates:
1858
Journal of a visit to the Middle East by Dr William Bryce of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.202
Dates:
1853.
Journal of Alexander Ballantyne recording a tour of Germany, the Low Countries and Paris, via Waterloo, beginning and ending in Kelso.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12639
Scope and Contents
Includes a journal of expenses.
Dates:
1817.
Journal of an Irish couple's Scottish tour, with illustrations and detailed accounts.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12615
Scope and Contents
Journal describing a two month tour of Scotland by Frederick and Nannie. They begin their journey from Dublin in August 1849. They cross by boat from Derry to Greenock. Places visited include: Luss, Tarbet, Loch Tay, Crieff, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The journal is illustrated with pen sketches by Nannie.
Dates:
1849.
`Journal of architecture` by James Playfair.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.25
Scope and Contents
The manuscript records Playfair`s day-to-day architectural work, with notes of his expenses and a few accounts for clients.
Throughout the period, Playfair was living in London and visiting Scotland once a year. The journal, which is particularly detailed for 1788-1789, gives the names of his clients and information about drawings and other work done for them. The buildings included Cullen House, Bothwell Castle and Dupplin Castle, and were mostly in Scotland.
Dates:
1783-1792.
Journal of James Henderson of Glasgow descibring his voyage to New Zealand on the 'Lady Ruthven'.
File
Identifier: Acc.14146
Scope and Contents
The journal is comprised of descriptive daily entries including observations on the ship, its crew, and the other passengers in steerage; and a postscript written upon arrival in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Dates:
1877
Journal of James Robertson of Cairness, Zante and Argos.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14164
Scope and Contents
While at Argos from 1828 until 1831 Thomas Gordon, James Robertson, and the historian George Finlay worked on the site of the ruined Heraeum near Argos.
Dates:
1828-1829.
Journal of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13411
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1880-1881, of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi. James Sutherland was recruited as an agriculturalist for the Free Church of Scotland mission in Nyasaland, now Malawi, during its early years. His journal describes his journey up the Zambesi and the Shire, and includes comment on the landscape and its suitability for cultivation. Sutherland arrives at the Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre in February 1881, where he stays for a few weeks before...
Dates:
1880-1885.
Journal of Lieutenant (later Captain) David Rutherford Adams, Royal Army Medical Corps, while serving at 41st General Hospital, Salonika, Greece.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12889
Dates:
1916.
Journal of Margaret Ramsay, describing her family life in Edinburgh, and as a school-teacher at Fochabers and Whithorn. The contents are largely personal, but mention is made of some current events.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.6.6-22.6.10
Scope and Contents
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
1825-1840.
Journal of Nicolas Servant, Chevalier de Romainval.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.1
Scope and Contents
The author was serving as a lieutenant on board the `Pontchartrain`, a 56-gun vessel of the Compagnie Royale des Indes Orientales, bound from Lorient to Surat in Bombay, and on board the `Aurore` on his return to France. He kept the journal for the entertainment of an unnamed French lady, and although he recorded the distances covered, wind directions, etc., most of the journal concerns life on board, with lively descriptions of the passengers and of local customs in Africa and especially in...
Dates:
1698-1700.
Journal of Robert Mylne, recording a visit to Paris.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13689
Scope and Contents
Journal of Robert Mylne, recording a visit to Paris with James Watt, 1839. Robert William Mylne (1816-1890), engineer and geologist, visited Paris between April and May 1839 with James Watt (1769-1848), engineer and manufacturer. The main focus of the visit as recorded in the journal is the regular negotiation with Francois Arago, leading to the publication of Arago’s ‘Eloge’ to James Watt, the elder, later that year. Also recorded are Mylne’s own investigations and proposals...
Dates:
1839
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
Journal of the Blantyre Mission, Malawi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9218
Scope and Contents
Kept mainly by the Reverend David Clement Scott.
Dates:
1884-1896.
'Journal of the Management of the Coall and Salt Works of Prestongrange', 2 April 1748-24 November 1750.
Item
Identifier: MS.3720
Scope and Contents
The journal is preceded by a 'narrative of some part of the management of the said works' from 15 May 1745, a few days before the works were bought by William Grant, until 2 April 1748; with weekly coal bills from 9 August 1745 to 2 April 1748. Weekly salt bills for the same period are not given (see folio 16).The journal from 2 April 1748 (folio 16 verso) contains, in its earlier stages, a considerable amount of technical matter relating to mining. On the financial side, the...
Dates:
1745-1750.
Journal of the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom by the French under Maurice de Saxe, July-September 1747, written by an officer of the garrison.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.19
Dates:
1747.
Journal of William Hunter Jr.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14504
Scope and Contents
Includes references to the arrangements for George IV's visit to Scotland in 1822.
Dates:
1795-1822.
Journal, probably of George Joseph Bell, the son of the advocate of that name.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.3
Scope and Contents
The journal describes a journey from London through Holland to Berlin, Dresden and Vienna, during the first three months of 1844. Bell comments on the architecture and customs of the places he passed through, and on the difficulties of travel. He was keenly interested in paintings and visited several collections, but his primary interest was in medical matters, particularly in Vienna, where he describes the hospitals and criticises their practices. There are a few small sketches and plans,...
Dates:
1844.
Journals and notebooks of Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13420
Scope and Contents
Edward Theodore Salvesen (1857-1942) was the son of Christian Frederick Salvesen (1827-1911), the Norwegian born founder of the Salvesen shipping company of Leith. He was educated at Edinburgh University and called to the Scottish Bar in 1880, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1899. As a Liberal Unionist candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituencies of Leith Burghs in 1900 and Bute in 1905. He was Sheriff of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire and Selkirkshire from 1901-1905...
Dates:
1873-1900.
Journals of Ernest James Harris, Bank Manager, Haddington, consisting largely of accounts of caravanning holidays in Scotland, England, Wales, and Europe but also of a motoring tour in North America.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13360
Scope and Contents
Ernest James Harris spent his working life as a banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was a branch manager in Leith and later for many years in Haddington. In the early 1970s, he represented the Bank in New York. The journals provide a detailed record of family holidays, generally by caravan, over more than thirty years. They are illustrated with pasted in specifications of caravans owned by the family, leaflets and plans of caravan sites visited, photographs, postcards,...
Dates:
1960-1985
Journals of the meetings of the Estates of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.9
Scope and Contents
The meetings began on 14 March 1689 in Edinburgh and the journals are complete to the adjournment on 24 May.
Dates:
1689.
Kennel Book, 1797-1926, compiled by James Hunter Rutherford W.S. (adm.1877), of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt. With correspondence, accounts and subscription lists, 1915-1948, of and relating to the Hunt.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13278
Scope and Contents
The main interest of this collection lies in the Kennel Book. Its author, James Hunter Rutherford, was Honorary Secretary of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt and Master of Foxhounds from1915-1926. He was the author of The History of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt, 1775-1910, Edinburgh, 1911. The Kennel Book records every hound that was part of the hunt, its name, parentage and fate.
Dates:
1797-1948
Ledgers and other papers of Lambert Brothers (Edinburgh) Ltd.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10808
Dates:
1901-1993.