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Journal of Margaret Aytoun.
Describing a tour through Holland, Belgium, the Rhineland and Northern France.
Journal of Margaret Law in which she describes a visit to Lisbon in 1845.
The volume is illustrated with vignette drawings.
Journal of Private William Newman, 3rd Foot Guards, recording his experiences in Egypt, Germany and Denmark.
Journal of Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, describing visits to lighthouses in England, Wales and Ireland on behalf of the Commissioners for Northern Lighthouses.
Journal of Sieur de la Croix, as secretary to the French embassy to the Ottoman Empire.
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.
'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).
Journal of the voyage of the whaling ship "Eira" from Peterhead.
Including an account of the sinking of the ship off Franz Josef Land and the rescue of the crew.
Journal of tours in Scotland and England made in 1830 and 1832 by Eliza Grieg.
Journal of travels in the Near East and Greece of
With an illustrated narrative of his residence in Cairo and Jerusalem and additional papers.
Journal of voyages kept by midshipman Robert Ritchie, entitled 'Voyages to India and other parts ... 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815'.
Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.
Journal of William Gauldie, schoolmaster of Kinnell, Angus of a voyage to South Africa undertaken after his retirement in 1910.
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.
Journal of William Liddell.
Concerning a tour of the United States and Canada.
Journal of William Whyte of Oban kept during his voyage from Leith to Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand as an emigrant.
Journal, with printed maps and photographs, by William Douglas of the firm of Douglas and Foulis.
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.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Journals and letters describing travels in Germany, sent by Elizabeth Sym to her niece Elizabeth, later Lady Sym.
Originals and typed transcript.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Journals and papers of Rawdon Goodier, largely concerning his activities in Rhodesia between 1955 and 1961.
Journals and sketch-books of Henry Aston Barker the painter of panoramas (died 1856).
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.
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.
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.
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.