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Diary of John Ballantyne, printer, containing entries covering the period December 1814 to July 1818.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5059
Scope and Contents

Also included are:

(i) Three of John Ballantynes' letters, 1820-1821 (tipped-in at folios 1, 16 and 19);

(ii) Minutes of a meeting, in June 1821, of Ballantynes' trustees (tipped-in at folio 22);

(iii) A letter, 1821, of Ballantynes' brother, James (tipped-in at folio 26).

On the flyleaf is a note concerning the provenance and identity of the volume.

Dates: December 1814-July 1818, 1821.

Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6260-6289
Scope and Contents The diary entries consist of records of personal experiences, and rambling didactic essays. The topics include observations on religion, philosophy, current events, sex, education, music, art and literature; there are copies of songs and music, a complete essay on marriage, and accounts of travels, notably a journey to Glasgow, 1822 (MS.6260), and a sea-trip to the Irish coast (MS.6272).Some miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and catalogues are inserted in the diary; and there are...
Dates: 1822-1836.

Diary of John Maclaren Barclay, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, contained in a "Cameron's commercial diary" (Glasgow, 1856).

 Item
Identifier: MS.9761
Scope and Contents

The entries (which are not continuous) record sittings for portraits and brief notes of travels and appointments. Petty cash pages record his disbursements throughout the year.

Dates: 1856.

Diary of John Nicoll, Writer to the Signet.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.1
Scope and Contents

The diary records political and other events of the time, and includes copies of proclamations and other current publications.

Dates: 1650-1667.

Diary of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9553
Scope and Contents

Concerns trip to Iceland in 1867, and a visit to the Baltic and Russia by Adam Hay Gordon of Mochie and Mayen in 1868.

Dates: 1867-1868

Diary of Lady Margaret Douglas-Home.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8767
Scope and Contents

Detailing a voyage around the Western Isles on the S Y Christie, illustrated with 74 photographs.

Dates: 1905.

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel (later Brigadier-General) James George Smith Neill of Barnweill and Swindrigemuir whilst second in command (with the local rank of Brigadier-General) of the Anglo-Turkish force, called the Turkish contingent, in the Crimean War, covering the period from 2 September 1855 to 30 September 1856.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15392
Scope and Contents

Judging from a number of small gaps, usually of a word or two, in the text, it would appear to be a fair copy made shortly afterwards (the paper is watermarked 1853), either from rough notes, or more probably, as folios 89-96 are stitched in, from the original.

Dates: 1855-1856.

Diary of Lieutenant Robert Burn Anderson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7492
Scope and Contents

Describing his voyage from Southampton to Bombay.

Dates: 1853.

Diary of Lieutenant William A Henderson, 13th Royal Scots, on active service on the Western Front (including the Battle of Arras).

 File
Identifier: Acc.8849
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1917, of his brother, Robert, to their father.

Dates: 1916-1917.

Diary of Lilian Buchanan (later Mrs Lilian Adam Smith) with related notes and correspondence.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14375
Scope and Contents

The diary contains a detailed descriptive account of Lilian's first meeting with George Adam Smith at Riffelalp, Switzerland, with a note from George Adam Smith enclosing pressed flowers, a letter from George Adam Smith to Lilian on their wedding day, 1889, and related notes and letters of Lilian on the diary to members of her family, 1913-1931. Pencil notes with commentary on Lilian's diary have been added to the volume at a later date by George Adam Smith.

Dates: 1889, 1913-1931.

Diary of Lily A Steel.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8782
Scope and Contents

Describing a visit to Norway.

Dates: 1899.

Diary of Marion Thomson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7372
Scope and Contents

Concerning a journey in Scotland with Lord Cockburn and his party and also to a journey on the Continent.

Dates: 1848.

Diary of May Baillie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9118
Scope and Contents

Covering the period of her musical education in Dresden and Munich and the beginning of her work as a music teacher at St Leonard`s School, St Andrews.

Dates: 1903-1910

Diary of Sergeant Harry Hawthorne, 5th Battalion, King`s Own Scottish Borderers as a prisoner-of-war in Germany.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12791
Scope and Contents

Includes donor`s identity tag as PoW, Stalag 357.

Dates: 1945.

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Gall, James, publisher, 1784-1874 3
Smith, Lilian Adam, 1866-1949 (née Buchanan, wife of Sir George, Knight) 3
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Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 3
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 2
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Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 2
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 2
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 2
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Bonar, James, Solicitor of Excise, 1757-1821 2
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Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, politician, née Thomson, then Grant, 1915-1978 2
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Craigmount School for Girls, Edinburgh 2
Dease, William H, farm worker, fl 1816-1818 2
Free Church of Scotland 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Graham, Susan Roope, mother of Robert Chellas, Lord of the Barony of Skipness, née Schuyler, 1811-1895 2
Gray, Alasdair (author) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hawthorne, Harry, Sergeant, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, b 1917 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 2
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Ogilvie, Iain Hamish (civil engineer) 2
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 2
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 2
Robertson, Eric Harald Macbeth, artist, 1887-1941 2
Scott, James, Major, fl 1945-2015 2
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 2
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 2
Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, Knight, explorer, 1874-1922 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 2
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 2
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 2
Wright, Ronald William Vernon Selby, Minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh, 1908-1995 2
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Amman, Alexander, Polish Army, fl 1939-1942 1
Anderson, Robert Burn, Lieutenant, 1st European Regiment, East India Army, 1833-1860 1
Anita Guthrie Dent, née Williamson, 1868-1948 (daughter of Stephen Williamson MP) 1
Annandale and Eskdale Regiment of Local Militia 1
Annunzio, Gabriele d', poet, 1863-1938 1
Anstruther, Mary Elma (née Hovell-Thurlow, wife of Arthur Wellesley, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, then Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce) 1
Apthorp, D P, Captain, Royal Norfolk Regiment, fl 1942-1945 1
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
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Arundel, Honor, novelist and journalist, 1919-1973 1
Ascherson, Charles Neal, b. 1932 (journalist, writer, and historian) 1
Baillie, May, music teacher, St Leonards School, St Andrews, fl 1903-1910 1
Barclay, Annie, wife of David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1948 1
Barclay, David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1946 1
Barnet, Alexander Avon, Commander, Royal Navy, 1904-1985 1
Baume, Louis Charles, mountaineer, 1919-1993 1
Beattie, Thomas, Muckledale, fl 1806 1
Bell, Alan Scott, library and literary consultant, 1942-2018 1
Bell, William, architect, b 1881 1
Bethune, John Drinkwater, colonel, historian, formerly Drinkwater, 1762-1844 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821 1
Bienert, Werner, German Language Teacher, 1902-1988 1
Birnie, Arthur, Lecturer in Economic History, University of Edinburgh, b 1890 1
Blackwood, Algernon Henry, writer of supernatural fiction, 1869-1951 1
Blackwood, William, William (publisher) 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bloxham, family, Banbury 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Bogie, David Wilson, Sheriff, 1946-1999 1
Borland, John, 1796-1885 (merchant and emigrant) 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Boyd, James, Edinburgh, schoolboy, fl 1850 1
Brocklebank, Thomas Anthony, mountaineer and teacher, 1908-1984 1
Brodie, James, of Brodie, fl 1671-1673 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Andrew, South Africa, telegraph controller, fl 1899-1905 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Henry, Galashiels, textile manufacturer, d 1885 1
Brown, John, Minister of Whitburn Secession Church, 1754-1832 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Brown, Thomas Graham, neurophysiologist and mountaineer, 1882-1965 1
Bruce, John, 1775-1834 (schoolmaster and author) 1
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