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Carbon copy of a typescript of a journal of a Mr Baine, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3611
Scope and Contents
Describing a voyage to Iceland in the "John" of Leith.
Dates:
1789.
Copies of journals of the tours made by James Robertson in 1767 and 1771 in the service of the Commissioners on the Forfeited Estates.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2507-2508
Scope and Contents
James Robertson was first employed by the Commissioners, at the instance of Professor Hope of the Edinburgh Chair of Botany, to make a survey of the flora of the Highlands and Islands, but he was later authorized to make notes on the fauna and on the natural features of the country. For an account of James Robertson's tour in 1768 see Sir Arthur Mitchell, "James Robertson's Tour through some of the Western Islands, etc., of Scotland in 1768", in 'Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of...
Dates:
1767, 1771.
Description by Sir William Burrell of a tour made by him, chiefly in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.2911
Scope and Contents
Sir William Burrell’s route takes him from London through the eastern counties of England to Durham, and by Carlisle into Galloway. After an excursion into County Antrim, he proceeds by the Ayrshire coast to Greenock, and thence to Glasgow and Stirling. Having explored Perthshire, he goes to Edinburgh, and visits many places in the neighbourhood. He then takes the route marked by Dumbarton, Inveraray, Fort William, Inverness, Banff, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, and Kinghorn. After further visiting...
Dates:
1758.
Diary in typescript carbon of John L Baird.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8893
Scope and Contents
Describing journey to Turkey, Mesopotamia and Persia.
Dates:
1913.
Fair copy, 1886, of the journal of James Greig of a hunting expedition in South Africa and Becknanaland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10027
Scope and Contents
Gives impressions of the scenery, games and meeting with missionaries, including David Livingstone.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Journal of Lieutenant David Aytoun, Royal Navy, on H.M.S. Dragon in the Mediterranean, with various notes, observations and copies of correspondence.
File
Identifier: MS.13598
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes descriptions of Lisbon, Gibraltar and Minorca, the dimensions of the masts and yards of H.M.S. Dragon, religious notes, verses, copies of David Aytoun's letters and memorials requesting promotion, and Aytoun's curriculum vitae, which includes a list of the ships on which he served. Aytoun, a younger brother of the laird of Kinnaldie, joined the Royal Navy on 12 May 1729, as a Midshipman, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 13 October 1738. He went on...
Dates:
1743-1746.
Microfilm copy of 'Journal of a voyage to Lima'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.497 [Acc.10005]
Dates:
1843.
Microfilm of manuscript from the Neilson Collection, containing a contemporary copy of 'Observations in a Tour to Portugal and Spain by Thos. [i.e. John], Earl of Strathmore & John Pitt, Esqr., 1760’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1443
Dates:
1760.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
File
Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents
This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates:
1765, 1800, 1819.