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Diaries of Robert Black.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7953
Scope and Contents

Concerning tours in Egypt, Turkey and Palestine.

Dates: 1892 and 1895.

Diary of Mary Steel-Maitland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5553
Scope and Contents

Concerning a trip to Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey.

Dates: 1931-1932.

Four albums of photographs by James Simson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3348
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Palestine, Syria, the Levant, Athens, Vienna and Strasbourg, and photocopies of 10 volumes of travel journals.

Dates: 1876.

‘Travels in Palestine, May 1876: an extract from the furlough diary of James Simson, Commissioner of Allahabad, Bengal Civil Service’, including a description of a similar visit by Colonel Alexander M. Simson, May 1964.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13683
Scope and Contents An extract from the travel diary of James Simson, Commissioner of Allahabad with the Bengal Civil Service, on a trip to Palestine. This extract is taken from a more extensive diary written by James Simson when, on his return to Scotland from India on furlough in 1876, he broke his journey with a visit to Palestine. He records visits to Baalbek, Damascus, Ephesus and Corinth, and then the outline of his sea trip to Constantinople, before travelling on to Scotland by train.The...
Dates: 1876, 1964