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African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.
Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].
The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.
Diaries, 1832-1865, chiefly of Colonel James Halkett (1822-1870), Coldstream Guards, son of Hugh, Baron von Halkett, describing his service in Britain, Mauritius, India and the Crimea; with correspondence and related material, 1847-1863, concerning several other members of the Halkett family.
James Halkett was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Mauritius, Sir William Gomm, from 1842 to 1847, and to the Commander-in-Chief of India from 1850 to 1854. He was severely wounded in action in November 1854 and the diary for that year gives particular accounts of the battles he witnessed during the Crimean War.
Diaries, 1858-1865, of John Dalziel, Writer to the Signet.
With letter, 1902, of Cora Scott-Moncrieff to Ethel Dalziel concerning Sir Joseph Nöel Paton, and genealogical table, undated, of the Hanna and Dalziel families.
Diaries, correspondence and notebooks of Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet of Fasque and his family.
Diaries, letters and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1989, of and relating to John Armstrong.
John Armstrong studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was a contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi who is mentioned in his diaries. After leaving college he worked as an artist and displays manager, then went on to work for the DHSS, Register Generals Office and elsewhere in Edinburgh. He later ran his own business. He continued painting throughout his life and also wrote fiction inspired by his bohemian lifestyle.
Diaries of Walter Robertson Cuthbert.
Includes two letters to Cuthbert from his mother and two photographs from World War I.
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, 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 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 of John Ballantyne, printer, containing entries covering the period December 1814 to July 1818.
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.
Diary of Lieutenant William A Henderson, 13th Royal Scots, on active service on the Western Front (including the Battle of Arras).
With a letter, 1917, of his brother, Robert, to their father.
Diary, two letters and typescript reminiscences of Sergeant Harry Hawthorne, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
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.
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.