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Diary and correspondence of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1451
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1855-1875.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.
Series
Identifier: MS.10775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(1) Journal, 11 November 1853-26 May 1856. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 4.
(2) Journal, 2 August 1858-9 January 1859. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 6.
(3) Journal, 1 December 1859-11 June 1860, 3 December 1860-23 March 1861.
See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham,...
Dates:
1853-1874.
Microfilm of a diary of David Livingstone covering the final period of his Zambezi Expedition.
Item
Identifier: MS.10771 [Mf.MSS.145]
Dates:
1863-1864.
Microfilm of algebra lecture notes, 1723; and, documents, 1745, concerning the defence and surrender of Edinburgh in the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.804
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Dictats of Mr. [George] Cambe[l] concerning Algebra. Written by James Primeros[e]. Novʳ. 12, 1723’, being a pupil's notes of his master's teaching (MS.2821);"Mr. McLourin’s Journall of what passed relating to the defence of Edinburgh from Monday Septemr. 2d. till Monday Septemr. 16th 1745", journal of Professor Colin Maclaurin (MS.299, folios 1-13);Document, [?1745], concerning the ‘45 deal with the surrender of Edinburgh to Prince...
Dates:
1723, 1745.
Microfilm of correspondence, poetry, journals and other papers of the Reverend William Anderson, Missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Jamaica and Old Calabar.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.930
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, poems and other papers, [?1833-?1895] (MS.2981);
Journals, 1831-1853 (MS.2982).
Dates:
1831-[?1891].
Microfilm of diaries and musical compositions of Dr T H Collinson, Organist and Choirmaster of St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.649-650
Dates:
[?1873]-1928.]
Microfilm of diaries and notebooks, and photocopies of a diary of David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: MS.10776
Dates:
1850-1871.
Microfilm of diaries from the papers of Sir Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1181
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Diary, 1800 (Acc.3155/38/E);
Leaves of diary, 1901 (Acc.3155/38/H).
Dates:
1800, 1901.
Microfilm of diaries of James Gilliland Simpson and Jane Simpson.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1684-1685
Dates:
1832-1838.
Microfilm of diaries of Robert Kirk Dickson kept while serving on H.M.S. 'Manxman'.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2098-2100
Dates:
1941-1942.
Microfilm of diaries of Sir Charles Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1354-1359
Dates:
1820-1851.
Microfilm of diaries of the Countess of Minto.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2110-2115
Dates:
1911-1915, 1936.
Microfilm of diary of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1050
Dates:
1837-1839.
Microfilm of diary of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick, titled, '3rd volume of Scraps and Nonsensicals'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1033
Dates:
1831-1833.
Microfilm of diary of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick, titled, '4th volume of Scraps and Nonsensicals'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1035
Dates:
1833-1834.
Microfilm of diary of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick, titled, '5th volume, Private Manuscripts, Nothings'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1039
Dates:
1834-1836.
Microfilm of diary of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick, titled, 'Sixth volume of Scraps and Personal Memoranda'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1043
Dates:
1836-1837.
Microfilm of diary of George Combe. Britain and abroad.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.450
Dates:
1851-1853.
Microfilm of diary of John Ballantyne, printer, containing entries covering the period December 1814 to July 1818.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1180
Dates:
1814-1818.