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'Account of the island of St Kilda and neighbouring islands, visited in August, 1799.’
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Correspondence and papers of John Thomson, Professor of General Pathology at Edinburgh, and of his sons William, Professor of Medicine at Glasgow, and Allen, the biologist.
Much of the collection is of medical interest, but it also includes correspondence on family matters.
Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Description by Sir William Burrell of a tour made by him, chiefly in Scotland.
Diary kept by Eliza Curr of Dundee from July 1863 to June 1864, describing the journey to and year spent at a school for young ladies in Fontainebleau.
Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
Extracts, 19th century, of the journals, 1803-1820, of Lady Henrietta Liston.
Folios 2-25 are from the Constantinople journals of Henrietta Liston for 1815-1820, and contain material not included in MSS. 5708-5712: Journals of Lady Henrietta Liston. Folios 26-58 are extracts from MS. 5706: Journal of Lady Henrietta Liston kept during travels in Sweden and Denmark, pages 1-72 (1803-1804).
Family correspondence, 1776, 1840-1842, and journal of Dr David Ewen of Ayr, who went to Madeira for his health in 1840 and died the following year.
David Ewen’s journal (folio 26) takes the form of occasional notes from October 1840 to March 1841, and describes the agriculture, countryside and climate of Madeira. It also mentions the wine trade, smuggling and the difficulties faced by invalids.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Journal and reminiscences of Miss M E McCulloch (later Ross).
Journal and report describing agricultural conditions in Mull.
Journal and scrapbooks of John Blackwood Greenshields of Kerse, Advocate, author of ‘The annals of Lesmahagow’.
Journal containing an account of a tour made by an English gentleman 'Among the Alps', probably in the middle of the nineteenth century.
The journal is profusely illustrated with pencil drawings of the scenery described and of places visited. Several of the drawings bear the initials R D.
Journal, day-books and an autograph book of William Scott of Raeburn (1773-1855).
Journal, January-October 1887, of John M Walker, engineer on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of H.M. Stanley.
John Walker, from Kilmarnock, had previous experience on the Congo. The journal covers his voyage from Southampton to Cape Town, where he met H.M. Stanley, thence to the Congo, and the steamship operations to convey the expedition into the interior.
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.
Journal kept by Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, of Pitsligo, of a tour taken on the Continent with his wife and daughter.
Consists of volumes i-vii. The route taken was; Edinburgh, Tunbridge Wells, Belgium, the Rhine, Frankfort, Bavaria, Tyrol, Naples (several months), Rome (two months), and home by much the same route as before, only by Stuttgart and Heidelberg.
Journal kept by William Cospatrick Hume of tours in Switzerland in 1853 and 1857 and in South Germany and the Tyrol, 1856.
Journal kept by William Maxwell, managing director of R and R Clark, the Edinburgh printers, on a trip to the United States and Canada in October and November 1932.
The volumes contain carbon copies of diary-letters to a friend in Edinburgh, of which folios 51-65 are duplicated in MS.9759 by the retention of the originals. The journal contains a description of the sea voyage and the social life of his tour, but is notable for its detailed descriptions of visits to printing houses, particularly Donnelley's of Chicago (MS.9759, folios 51-65) and the Government Printing Office, Washington (MS.9760, folios 1-29).