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Collection of papers of the Warden family.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50259-50262
Content Description
The collection comprises correspondence of the Warden family, with transcripts of most of the correspondence, a travel journal written by Alexander Warden and a publication, 'Letters from St. Helena' (1816), by William Warden.
Dates:
1816; 1819-1857.
Description of voyage to South Africa of Trooper Charles Hunter, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.
File
Identifier: Acc.10677
Scope and Contents
Includes transcript of description. With letter and pocket book containg active service notes.
Dates:
circa 1900.
Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
File
Identifier: MS.8926
Scope and Contents
The journal is made up from transcripts of letters to his mother written on the journey between 26 August and 8 September 1842. Among the main places visited are Glasgow, Inveraray, Oban, Glencoe, Callander and Edinburgh. The text is ornamented with thirty-three engraved views, several dried plant specimens, and a few pencil sketches. The journal is followed by a 'Dissertation on the Gael and their language' (folio 49), dealing with regional variations in language, intonation,...
Dates:
1842.
Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19200-19203
Dates:
1793, 1929-1938.
Photocopy of a transcript of a journal describing a voyage from Glasgow to Queensland, Australia, by Margaret Hinshelwood.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12149
Dates:
1883.
Transcript, 1893, of the manuscript journal, 1736-1737, of Dr Alexander Cunyngham, later Sir Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, made on his Italian journey with Allan Ramsay, painter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12078
Scope and Contents
Includes material not printed in "Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest" (1897).
Dates:
1893.
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.
Transcript of the journals of John Mair.
File
Identifier: Acc.6748-is now MS.50267
Scope and Contents
Concerning travels in the West Indies.
Dates:
1776-1791.
Travel journal of Francis Jeffreys in the United States.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11099
Scope and Contents
Covers visits to New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other places, and contains an account of Jeffreys` discussions with President Madison and Secretary of State Monroe.
Includes typed transcript of Sir Denis Brogan.
Dates:
1813.