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Journal of Margaret Aytoun.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7291
Scope and Contents
Describing a tour through Holland, Belgium, the Rhineland and Northern France.
Dates:
1840.
Journal of Margaret Law in which she describes a visit to Lisbon in 1845.
Item
Identifier: MS.10340
Scope and Contents
The volume is illustrated with vignette drawings.
Dates:
1845.
Journal of Private William Newman, 3rd Foot Guards, recording his experiences in Egypt, Germany and Denmark.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12054
Dates:
1800-1809.
Journal of Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, describing visits to lighthouses in England, Wales and Ireland on behalf of the Commissioners for Northern Lighthouses.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14576
Dates:
1801-1806
Journal of Sieur de la Croix, as secretary to the French embassy to the Ottoman Empire.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.5 (i)-(iii)
Dates:
1673-1678.
Journal of the flight of H M Airship R-34 from East Fortune to Long Island, 2-6 July, and of her return journey to Pulham, 9-13 July 1919, with two telegrams, by Brigadier-General E M Maitland, who represented the Air Ministry on the trip.
File
Identifier: MS.2978
Dates:
1919.
'Journal of the tour round the Western Islands of Scotland 1788', a quarto notebook and various unbound pages forming together an incomplete journal, in the hand of John, 1st Marquess of Bute (then Lord Mountstuart).
Item
Identifier: MS.9587
Scope and Contents
The journal comprises chiefly the account of a voyage, August 1788, in the revenue cutter ‘Royal George’ from Mountstuart, Isle of Bute, to Islay (folio 2), Mull and Lismore (folios 5-12), Staffa and Iona (folios 26-27), North Uist and Lewis (folios 28-30), Skye and Raasay (folios 30-34), Canna (folios 34-41), and Oban and Kerrera (folio 42). There is also a fragment of journal, 12-19 October, relating to a later cruise in Loch Fyne (folio 43). Also included are...
Dates:
1788.
Journal of the voyage of the whaling ship "Eira" from Peterhead.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8051
Scope and Contents
Including an account of the sinking of the ship off Franz Josef Land and the rescue of the crew.
Dates:
1881.
Journal of tours in Scotland and England made in 1830 and 1832 by Eliza Grieg.
Item
Identifier: MS.9938
Scope and Contents
The first tour, in August and September 1830, was from Edinburgh to Aberfeldy, St Fillans and Glasgow, returning through New Lanark where the party visited Robert Owen's school. The journal records the tour party as consisting of 'Mrs Bruce, Mr & Mrs Murray and two Misses Murray' [John Murray II and his family].The second tour (folio 17 verso) lasted from August to October 1832, when Miss Greig and her friends travelled to the Lake District, Chester, and Malvern, returning...
Dates:
1830, 1832.
Journal of travels in the Near East and Greece of
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10121
Scope and Contents
With an illustrated narrative of his residence in Cairo and Jerusalem and additional papers.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Journal of voyages kept by midshipman Robert Ritchie, entitled 'Voyages to India and other parts ... 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815'.
Item
Identifier: MS.9232
Scope and Contents
The journal is complete only to 18 June 1812, breaking off in the middle of an entry recounting the crossing of the Equator. Two voyages are described. The first, to the Baltic in H.M.S. Nightingale, illustrates life in the Royal Navy, with crowded conditions and overbearing officers. Robert Ritchie, having decided to leave the Royal Navy, joined the East India Company and after an extensive stay in London sailed for India on the Lord Keith. The remainder of the journal describes a portion...
Dates:
1811-1812.
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.
Journal of William Gauldie, schoolmaster of Kinnell, Angus of a voyage to South Africa undertaken after his retirement in 1910.
Item
Identifier: MS.8908
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the journal, which is apparently a fair copy based on diary-letters sent home, is concerned with the sea voyages. A short account of William Gauldie's time in South Africa (folios 33-39) is described as 'written from memory in 1915'. There are a few pencilled amendments in another hand.
Dates:
1910-1911, 1915.
Journal of William Liddell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7996
Scope and Contents
Concerning a tour of the United States and Canada.
Dates:
1825.
Journal of William Whyte of Oban kept during his voyage from Leith to Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand as an emigrant.
File
Identifier: Acc.14574
Scope and Contents
William Whyte was brought up in a Free Church of Scotland family in Oban, the eldest son of Duncan Whyte, secretary and treasurer of the local National Security Savings Bank. He emigrated to New Zealand, possibly for religious reasons, on the ship Melbourne, which sailed from Leith in November 1860 and arrived in Dunedin in March 1861. His daily journal, written in the form of a letter to his family in Oban, contains detailed descriptions of life and conditions on board ship, with remarks on...
Dates:
1860-1861.
Journal, with printed maps and photographs, by William Douglas of the firm of Douglas and Foulis.
File
Identifier: MS.10975
Scope and Contents
The journal records visits to West Sutherland including Handa Island, 1888, and to Ailsa Craig, with an account of the making of curling stones, 1889.
Dates:
1888-1889.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates:
1836-1863 and undated.
Journals and letters describing travels in Germany, sent by Elizabeth Sym to her niece Elizabeth, later Lady Sym.
File
Identifier: Acc.13032
Scope and Contents
Originals and typed transcript.
Dates:
1871-1872.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10342-10370
Dates:
1752-1885, undated.
Journals and papers of Rawdon Goodier, largely concerning his activities in Rhodesia between 1955 and 1961.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12397
Dates:
1955-1995.
Journals and sketch-books of Henry Aston Barker the painter of panoramas (died 1856).
Series
Identifier: MSS.9647-9653
Dates:
1799-1855.
Journals kept by Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, during tours in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy, 1783-1785, and in the country between Paris and Clermont, 1791.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6324-6332
Scope and Contents
In both series, Sir James Hall shows his interest in metallurgy, mining, geology, agriculture, and architecture, including ancient ruins; he often breaks his narrative of events with long descriptions of phenomena or processes which have made an impression on him. Many drawings of machinery, tools, architectural motifs, geological formations, etc., are scattered throughout the text.
Dates:
1783-1785, 1791.
Journals of a voyage to Iceland in the ‘John’ of Leith, 23 May-3 November 1789, under the leadership of John Thomas Stanley, later 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6317-6318
Scope and Contents
Both journals include observations on weather, with land and sea temperatures during the voyage, and descriptions of the inhabitants, scenery, products, flora, minerals and volcanic phenomena of Iceland, and of such of the Orkney and Faroe islands as were visited.
Dates:
1789.
Journals of Alpine tours and other papers mostly connected with mountaineering, collected by Robert Wylie Lloyd, Alpinist.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.6337-6346
Dates:
1789-1947.
Journals of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay's 'Travels in Germany and The Imperial Hereditary States, During the Years 1795, 1796, 1797' transcribed by C. Piesse, 1801
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13970/1-4
Scope and Contents
Illustrated journals of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay's travels in Germany and The Imperial Hereditary States, 1795, 1796 and 1797. When he set out on his first tour, Charles Stuart was travelling alone apart from a servant and aged 18.Charles Stuart compiled his journals not for 'amusement' but for the 'information' of his friends 'to recall the different fact witnessed, and the various situations in which I was placed'. They were compiled shortly after he made the...
Dates:
1801.