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Diary kept by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming during her journey to and stay in Fiji.
Item
Identifier: MS.7180
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1875-1876.
Journal kept by David Livingston from August 1862 to February 1863, describing the ascent of the rivers Rovuma and Shire, with accounts of the country and people passed; illustrated with diagrams and sketches.
Item
Identifier: MS.2249
Dates:
1862-1863.
Manuscripts from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises in mathematics, astronomy and physics.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14294-14296
Scope and Contents
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1783, 1786-1787.
Microfilm of journal kept by David Livingston from August 1862 to February 1863, describing the ascent of the rivers Rovuma and Shire, with accounts of the country and people passed; illustrated with diagrams and sketches.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.55
Dates:
1862-1863.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
File
Identifier: MS.9659
Scope and Contents
The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.
Dates:
[Circa 1870.]