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Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
Extracts by William Bell Scott from the correspondence, journals, and memorandums of David Scott.
Extracts from official records, journals and newspapers, sixteenth to nineteenth century, relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections.
The family connections include Butler of Harpendean, Congalton (Congilton), Cumming (Cumine), Fairholme, Fortune, Naismith, Rainnie (Rennie, Rainny). The extracts and notes are taken from various registers in HM Register House, Edinburgh Burgh records, local records in Midlothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Berwick-on-Tweed, and journals.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
First World War diary of Alexander Meiklejohn, Royal Engineers, serving with the ANZAC signals at Gallipoli.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Four diaries of Muriel Thomson, Headmistress of Niddrie Mains Infants and Nursery School, Edinburgh.
Four field-diaries, numbered 21, 22, 24 and 26, 1867-1871, and notebooks, numbered 2 and 4, 1850-1854, of David Livingstone.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.
Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).
Gardening diary of Margaret Macintyre, Connel, Argyll.
Mostly concerns Swanley Horticultural College, Kent, and Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire.
Gardening diary of William Mills
Illustrated diary of a journey through the Trossachs and West Perthshire.
Illustrated diary of Mary Cumming Bruce.
Journal, 1832, of a visit to Sutherland made by Stephen Place, footman to George, 1st Duke of Sutherland.
Includes another journal of Place, 1870-1871.
Journal, 1840-1854, of James Gall.
With family Bible, containing genealogy, 1766-1825, of James Gall, and his descendants.
Journal, 1857, of Alexander Gibb of Laurencekirk, containing notes on family outings, and on local history and topography, frequently illustrated with plans and sketches.
Loosely inserted (folio 53) is a printed article by Alexander Gibb, on 'The Ballad of Jack Monro', an off-print from the ‘Brechin Advertiser’, 9 February 1904.
Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-5, of James Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma during the Second World War.
Journal and commonplace book of an inhabitant of Edinburgh.
Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny.
Journal and correspondence of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland.
Journal and letters of Captain Edward Henry Columbine, Royal Navy.
Columbine describes places in Northern Ireland and on the west coast of Scotland, the Firth of Clyde and Glasgow, visited while on anti-smuggling duty.