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Diary of Patrick Hamilton Drummond of a voyage from London to Melbourne.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5700
Dates:
1874.
Journal of a continental tour of Andrew MacInnes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13701
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour to France, Switzerland and Germany by Andrew MacInnes and `Richard`. At the back of the volume are accounts of expenses on the tour, mileages and a number of Scottish songs. The notebook is bound in a larger twentieth century volume together with a full transcript and a letter of 1928 of Andrew MacInnes, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, son of the diarist, to his nephew Clayton McCall donating the journal to him. Andrew MacInnes and his companion...
Dates:
1830
Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13639
Scope and Contents
The author of this illustrated journal lived at Bedford Villa, Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol, and was probably Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Octavius Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol.The writer and `Charles` travelled from Bristol to Melrose by train and visited Abbotsford, Melrose Abbey and Dryburgh Abbey before leaving for Edinburgh. Queen Victoria had recently been in Edinburgh and there are numerous pasted in printed drawings of scenes of her visit. The...
Dates:
1886
Transcript of the journals of John Mair.
File
Identifier: MS.50267
Content Description
Details concerning Mair’s travels from London to the West Indies via Madeira, during which he visited Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, the Grenadines, St Vincent, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica, and his purchase of an estate and enslaved people in Dominica (folios 1-15). Particulars concerning Mair’s return journey from Dominica to London, the impact of Britain’s conflict with France and America on British colonies in the Caribbean and details of Mair’s plantation...
Dates:
1776-1791.