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Diaries of William Kirkwood, merchant mariner.
Diary, 1745-1746, of a clerk in the leadmines at Leadhills, with unconnected papers.
Includes:
notes, 18th century, on optics
farm accounts, 1822-1830 and 1843-1859, of Glenholm, Lockerbie
farm accounts, 1818-1829
Diary, 1828-1830, of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham.
Includes colour sketches and concerns hunting expeditions in India.
With a letter, 1839, of Graham from India to his sister, Mrs Anna Calderwood.
Diary, 1831-1839, of James Gall.
With the Gall family bible, 18th century to 19th century.
Diary, 1894-1895, of the Reverend George Douglas Shepherd, compiled while a student at Edinburgh University.
With over two hundred letters, 1899, to Shepherd`s family on his death.
Diary and account book, August-November 1769, written by a tutor of Sir John Scott of Ancrum.
The writer was probably Alexander Pringle of Whytbank (died 1772), handwriting having characteristics similar to those of MS.9365: Rental of the estate of Whytbank, Selkirkshire.
The volume contains brief notes on the weather and the writer's daily affairs, with particular reference to property in Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, and entries for small items of expenditure.
Diary and correspondence of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland.
The contents are as follows:
Diary, 1855, 1858, of Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland as a Captain of the 93rd Regiment, in India. (MS.2234);
Correspondence, 1855-1875, of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland. (MS.2235).
Diary and memoranda book of John Nisbet.
John Nisbet`s diary and memoranda book lists significant events in his life including a ‘Tour to the Highlands in 1818’, eyewitness accounts of the Radical Riots in Paisley, 1820, and George IV’s visit to Edinburgh, 1822. There are also lengthy passages on ‘The State of Trade in Paisley, 1825-1826’ and on national and international affairs including the French Revolution of 1830. Also included are genealogical notes and household and medical recipes.
Diary and memorandum book of George Steill (Steel), Trows, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire
Diary of George Steill, headed "Georg Stteills freue and per[fect?] acownt of all his marches and trawells throw the cuntries and towns the kingdom of Scotland and in Holand and Flanders and pairte in Ingland", followed by entries concerning the years 1705-1715 (ff. 1-15). An index to the diary, in Steill`s hand, is at ff. 62-64. The remaining leaves of the volume contain notes of payments and other financial notes, mostly in a later hand.
Diary and notes of Mary Stewart Richardson.
Concerning her nursing service in France.
Diary, chiefly religious, probably of a lady, written during the first three months of 1813, in Edinburgh.
Diary entitled, "Three Weeks in Scotland during the Autumn of 1861".
Diary kept by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming during her journey to and stay in Fiji.
The diary commences in February 1875 and breaks off in July 1876, fourteen months before the writer left Fiji. The material in the diary is basically similar to that of Miss Gordon-Cumming's book, ‘At home in Fiji’ (Edinburgh, 1881), as far as volume ii, page 25, although the book is composed of a series of letters to the writer's friends in England. Occasional thumb-nail sketches or diagrams appear in the diary.
Diary kept by Eliza Curr of Dundee from July 1863 to June 1864, describing the journey to and year spent at a school for young ladies in Fontainebleau.
Diary of a Free Church missionary in Lewis, Skye and the West Highlands.
Diary of a man resident in Edinburgh, consisting largely of accounts of lectures, concerts, and plays which he has attended.
The writer was at different times employed by the N.B.R. (?North British Railway) Company (folio 20 verso), and Messrs Blackwell and Munro, Wholesale Fruit and Spice Merchants, Edinburgh (folio 40), and made journeys, probably on business, to Germany in 1846 (folios 4-16 verso) and in various parts of Scotland. He appears to have been a man of little education, making efforts to improve himself. He gives little information about the places visited.
Diary of a Miss Cumming.
Describing her time as a Red Cross nurse in Bulgaria.
Diary of a return trip between Edinburgh and Yokohama by Miss Madelena L Stewart.
Comprises bound notebook compiled in pencil and loose typescript with illustrations.
Diary of a Scotsman, concerning a tour in Germany.
Including description of a meeting with Goethe.