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Journals of (General Sir) Thomas M Steele.
File
Identifier: MS.20320
Scope and Contents
The journals are of hunting trips in South Africa in 1843 (folios 2-46) and India in 1844-1848 (folios 48 verso-95) and a visit to Spain in 1850-1851 (folios 97-110). Of a visit to South America in 1851 only the heading is present (folio 111). A list of animals shot is given on folio 1, and on folios 47-48 is a poem.
Thomas Steele met David Livingstone in 1843 (see folio 18) and remained his close friend.
Dates:
1843-1851.
Journals of the traveller and author William Edward Baxter (1825-1890).
Series
Identifier: MSS.15906-15907
Dates:
1850, 1852.
Journals of tours by Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1802 until his retirement in 1816, when he was created 1st Baron Colchester.
File
Identifier: MSS.9815-9816
Dates:
1815, 1827.
Journals of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during tours in Northern Germany, 1813-1814, while in performance of his duties, and in France and Holland, 1818, apparently on a pleasure trip.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6333-6334
Dates:
1813-1814, 1818.
'Journey in Scotland, with sketches of some picturesque ruins in that interesting country', being an account of a tour made by James Bailey, Otley, Yorkshire, from July to September 1787.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3294-3295
Scope and Contents
The writer set out to follow the route taken by Dr Johnson and to write a similar narrative to his ‘Journey to the Western Islands’. He describes Scotland and its people, noting particularly what is strange to an Englishman, relates his personal experiences, and tells many historical anecdotes and legends, some of which he declares to be new to him. The journal is illustrated with images copied from Adam De Cardonnel’s "Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland".
Dates:
1787.
Letters, 1859-1868, of Harriet Miller Davidson and family, with an account of a voyage from Australia to England in 1884 by Lydia Miller Davidson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13697/1-5
Dates:
1859-1884.
Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2213-2222
Dates:
1782-1880.
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10707-10756
Dates:
1792-1874, undated.
Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents
Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.
Dates:
Circa 1966-2013.
Manuscripts of a French Officer named La Rochette, who appears to have been acting, at least in 1763, in the services of the Duc de Nivernais, then Ambassador at St James, in connection with Acadian and other French prisoners.
File
Identifier: MS.3803
Scope and Contents
In a note on folio i the officer is called Colonel de la Rochette; on folio 42 he describes himself as being addressed as General.The manuscripts consist of notes and drafts (some of these latter in several versions), chiefly on the following subjects. Some or all may have been intended for the Duc de Nivernais.(i) The campaigns of Agricola and Roman antiquities in Scotland, with some notes on early Britain in general. (Folios 1-42, 45-47, 58, 63.)(ii) A...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Manuscripts of illustrated books and travel journals of Doris Ann Goodchild.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11801
Dates:
1955-1996.
Maritime journal of Alexander Gladstone.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13924
Content Description
Entitled "Extracts from a journal kept on board the "Medora" on her voyage to the Island of Trinidad in the winter of 1843. By Alexr Gladstone". The extracts were made for an unnamed acquaintance, whom Gladstone asks to guard the volume well so that it does not circulate among acquaintances. - The "Medora" set off from Greenock on 22 November 1843 with six passengers on board, and reached Port of Spain in July 1844. The journal contains many references to the writer's poor health and...
Dates:
1843-1844
Memoir and journal of a tour to Italy of Charlotte Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.8110
Dates:
1789-1800.
Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.
Series
Identifier: MS.10775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(1) Journal, 11 November 1853-26 May 1856. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 4.
(2) Journal, 2 August 1858-9 January 1859. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 6.
(3) Journal, 1 December 1859-11 June 1860, 3 December 1860-23 March 1861.
See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham,...
Dates:
1853-1874.
Microfilm copy of 'Journal of a voyage to Lima'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.497 [Acc.10005]
Dates:
1843.
Microfilm of album, ?1780-?1782, of sketches of figures and scenes in the Peninsula and France, by Mrs Mary Graham; and, journal, July-August 1792, of Thomas Graham, of his return journey through France after the death of Mrs Graham.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1346-1347
Dates:
?1780-1792.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of autobiography, 1858, and journal, 1838-1839, of George Combe.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.745
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Journal, 1838-1839, of George Combe while in America (MS.7416);
Journal, 1839, of George Combe while in America (MS.7417);
Autobiography, 1858, of George Combe (MSS.7433-7434).
Dates:
1838-1839, 1858.
Microfilm of ‘Diary of a journey to Dreden &c 1654-64’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.483
Dates:
1654-1664.
Microfilm of diary of Joseph Mercer, concerning a tour in France and Italy.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1027
Dates:
1778-1779.
Microfilm of journal and notebook of Henry Aston Barker describing a voyage to Constantinople, and his life there.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1069
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Journal, 1799-April 1800 (MS.9647);
Journal, April-July 1800 (MS.9648);
Notebook, 1799-1800, 1802 (MS.9649).
Dates:
1799-1802.
Microfilm of journal describing tours chiefly in Holland, probably by William Rouat, Professor of Church History, Glasgow University, a cousin of William Mure (succeeded 1722), Baron of the Exchequer.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.895
Dates:
[Circa 1741.]
Microfilm of 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.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.55
Dates:
1862-1863.
Microfilm of journal of a Miss Ewbank of York, covering the period 9 September 1803 to 11 September, 1805.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.922
Dates:
1803-1805.