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Estate maps of Lochrutton, 1775, 1815, Kirkgunzeon, 1775, Kinharvie, 1793, Creetown, 1815, and Great Orton, 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.7932
Dates:
1775-circa 1899.
"First Protraction of the Town of Moffatt [sic] as it stood 1758 by James Tait traced from the original by James T Johnstone Aug 1901".
Item
Identifier: Acc.3522
Dates:
1901.
First World War papers of James Naughton Dandie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9530/1-54
Scope and Contents
The papers relate to James Naughton Dandie's service with the 51st Highland Division (Artillery) in France during World War I, and some post-war papers.
Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript notes and printed material.
Dates:
1914-1919, undated.
Five maps of estates in the North East of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.8189
Scope and Contents
1 Common of Teighside, 1799
2 Kirktown Mill, 1804
3 Kirk Road to Belhelvie, circa 1809
4 parts of Camphill, undated
5 Wester Tolmands, 1859.
Dates:
1799-1859 and undated.
Fourteen hand-coloured manuscript and printed maps and 3 diagrams of Caldor Wood, Scotland, by William Edward Scott Mutch.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12361
Dates:
1955-1961.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1968-1983.
Game book of Duncan Campbell of Smith Hall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9869
Scope and Contents
Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.
Dates:
1902-1914.
Hand-coloured manuscript map of Benir Division, Nigeria, by B Ajanuku.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12360
Dates:
1947.
Illustrated typescript journal of `A Camping Holiday in Scotland` by Allan George Nicholson.
File
Identifier: Acc.13040
Scope and Contents
Allan George Nicholson, his wife Peggie, and their son Michael, travelled by road from Cresham in Buckinghamshire to London where they took the Car Sleeper train to Perth. From there they toured Scotland for over weeks covering covering more than a thousand miles in a circular route to Scourie in the north, returning via the Great Glen and Oban. Places visited include Balmoral Castle, Portsoy, Culloden, Inverness, Lairg, Scourie, Lochinver, Oban, Fingal`s Cave, Iona and Glencoe. ...
Dates:
1959.
Journal of a tour to Scotland, 12 August-7 October 1842, kept by Miss S Taylor, of Moore Green, near Birmingham.
Item
Identifier: MS.8927
Scope and Contents
The writer covered some 1,800 miles in all (over 500 of them by rail) and her route extended as far as Inverness in the north, and Iona in the West. The account of her Scottish journey is accompanied by details of her travels in the north of England. The text is profusely illustrated with pencil or ink sketches by the author (a few pencil sketches were made on an earlier journey in 1817), and with nearly 300 small engravings of places visited. A contemporary printed map of...
Dates:
1842.
Journal, with printed maps and photographs, by William Douglas of the firm of Douglas and Foulis.
File
Identifier: MS.10975
Scope and Contents
The journal records visits to West Sutherland including Handa Island, 1888, and to Ailsa Craig, with an account of the making of curling stones, 1889.
Dates:
1888-1889.
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, orders, letters and other papers of Lieutenant-General Hon Sir William Stewart relating to commands and service at home and abroad, and to the formation of the Rifle Brigade.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9074/1-74
Scope and Contents
Acc.9074/1-61 consist of 61 bound volumes entitled 'The Cumloden Papers'.
Dates:
1713-1909.
Legal papers, maps and prospectuses, largely concerning a Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh canal, and the Slamannan Railway, Stirlingshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5855
Dates:
circa 1835-circa 1856.
Letters and papers of the Brown family, Linkwood, with some of the family of William Leslie, Minister of Lhanbryde.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3258-3276
Dates:
1769-1883, undated.
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10707-10756
Dates:
1792-1874, undated.
Logbook of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, the geologist, containing accounts of two journeys made by him when he was a youth of eighteen and nineteen.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.15
Scope and Contents
The first account describes `A Cruize among the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. June 1836` and the second is a `Log of the Barbara of Bedford during her voyage from Bedford to York. July 1835` (folio 43).At the end of each log, there are lists of illustrations which apparently were meant to accompany the text, but the only drawings in the logbook appear in the second account. There is a map of the area between York and Bedford (folio 44) and a sketch of `A Yorkshireman`s...
Dates:
1835-1836.
Manuscript account of the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot on his visit to Paris during the Armistice of Versailles.
File
Identifier: Acc.14099
Scope and Contents
The file also contains diplomatic passes, notes, press cuttings, and a map of Paris.
Dates:
1871.
Manuscript and printed maps concerning railways between Edinburgh and Bathgate and between Airdrie and Bathgate.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3301
Dates:
1845-1847.
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Manuscript of 'The Gododdin' by William Owen Pughe, with facing English translation, and other papers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written during 1784-1785 (see pages iii, 198) by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), co-editor of ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’. For further transcripts of the work in his hand see the following National Library of Wales manuscripts: 13240 B; 21281 E, page 231, column a; Erfyl Fychan papers.The contents are as follows.(i) Line from an ‘awdl’ ascribed to Casnodyn: ‘Cyn glas ved cyn glassu vyggran’. ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’, volume 1,...
Dates:
1784-1785.
Manuscript works of Robert Purves Hardie concerning early British naval history, with transcripts, notes and maps.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5293-5307
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Manuscripts of Cecilia Campbell, née Cleghorn, written before her marriage to Arthur Campbell of Catrine, Writer to the Signet, in 1851.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14300-14302
Dates:
Circa 1850-1877, undated.