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13 diaries and letterbooks of James Gilliland Simpson, merchant, and his wife Jane née Horsburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12489
Scope and Contents

Includes a related typescript, circa 1985, of John Home Simpson.

Dates: 1800-1851.

African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.

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Identifier: Acc.11247
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Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.

Dates: 1885-1886 and undated.

Annotated copy of Archibald Stalker, "Conversation with Himself".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6935
Scope and Contents

Comprising extracts from his diary for 1957-1969.

Dates: 1969.

Autobiographical notes, transcribed diary and anecdote of James Wardrop.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5653
Scope and Contents

With diary, 1841-1861, of his daughter, Shirley.

Dates: circa 1855-1969.

Biography of James Bonar, compiled by his son.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6536
Scope and Contents

Mostly comprising extracts from Bonar`s diary and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1830.

Cash-book for Woodhouselee, Midlothian, 1827-1834, 1844-1855, containing detailed accounts of expenditure by the gardeners, with a journal, January 1827-May 1834, on inverted pages, giving brief particulars of the daily work of the two permanent gardeners.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8915
Scope and Contents

Many of the entries in the cash-book relate to transport tolls and the employment of occasional labour. Some are concerned with minor repairs to the mansion house.

Dates: 1827-1855.

Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14277
Scope and Contents

The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).

Dates: 1863-1896, 1927, undated.

Computer print-out of 'The Referendum: a journal', by Sir Charles Fraser.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13688
Scope and Contents

The diary, which covers the period February 2013 to September 2014, records the views of Sir Charles Fraser on the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. It notes conversations with friends and family on issues raised by the referendum, and includes comments on the nature of the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ campaigns, Devo-max, key political figures, foreign and domestic policy, currency and social union.

Dates: 2015.

Copies of emigration papers of Ernest Robb.

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Identifier: Acc.13121
Scope and Contents The collection consists of copies of Ernest Robb`s emigration papers, c. 1900-1972. The papers include a typescript diary of the journey from Plymouth to Australia, an immigration identity card, Ernest Robb`s Australian passport, a receipt of passage`s money, a passenger`s contract ticket as well as photographs of Ernest and his brothers Jock, emigrant to Western Australia, and Bob, emigrant to the USA.Ernest Robb was born in Castlehill cottage, Troqueer, Kirkudbrightshire,...
Dates: circa 1900-1972.

Copy by Sir James Balfour of the diary of Robert Birrell, burgess of Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.28
Scope and Contents

Apart from a few entries at the beginning, recording major events since 1370, it covers the period between 1566 and 1603, breaking off in July of that year. All the entries concern public events.

Dates: 1566-1603.

Copy of the diary of the early part of the Crimean War compiled by Major Alexander Irving, Royal Artillery (later Major-General), in an unidentified late nineteenth or early twentieth- century hand (presumably that of a descendant).

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Identifier: MS.15391
Scope and Contents It is not clear whether the original diary remained unfinished or whether there were other, untranscribed volumes, but this copy covers only the period from 8 August (folio 1 verso), when Alexander Irving embarked at Woolwich, until 3 December 1854 (folio 122). Also copied at appropriate points in the narrative are private letters written chiefly to his wife Mary and to a friend John Scott Moncrieff. The copyist has begun at folios 1 verso-2 and proceeds one opening at a time, presumably in...
Dates: 1854.

Copy of "The Endurance Diary of Harry McNeish", carpenter with Ernest Shackleton`s 1914-1916 Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition.

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Identifier: Acc.12254
Scope and Contents

Transcribed by Shane Murphy from a microfilm in the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Includes copy of "The Diary of Thomas H Orde-Lees`s Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition, 1914-1916" being notes made by Margot Murrell, 1997.

Dates: circa 1997.

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Scottish Mountaineering Club 7
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 5
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 3
Gall, James, publisher, 1784-1874 3
Smith, Lilian Adam, 1866-1949 (née Buchanan, wife of Sir George, Knight) 3
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Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 3
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 2
Angus, Elizabeth Siddons, b.1883 (Daughter of Major General John Angus) 2
Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 2
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 2
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 2
Beaton, Patrick Grant, merchant in Venezuela, fl 1824-1826 2
Bonar, James, Solicitor of Excise, 1757-1821 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, politician, née Thomson, then Grant, 1915-1978 2
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 2
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 2
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 2
Craigmount School for Girls, Edinburgh 2
Dease, William H, farm worker, fl 1816-1818 2
Free Church of Scotland 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Graham, Susan Roope, mother of Robert Chellas, Lord of the Barony of Skipness, née Schuyler, 1811-1895 2
Gray, Alasdair (author) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hawthorne, Harry, Sergeant, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, b 1917 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 2
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Ogilvie, Iain Hamish (civil engineer) 2
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 2
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 2
Robertson, Eric Harald Macbeth, artist, 1887-1941 2
Scott, James, Major, fl 1945-2015 2
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 2
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 2
Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, Knight, explorer, 1874-1922 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 2
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 2
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 2
Wright, Ronald William Vernon Selby, Minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh, 1908-1995 2
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Amman, Alexander, Polish Army, fl 1939-1942 1
Anderson, Robert Burn, Lieutenant, 1st European Regiment, East India Army, 1833-1860 1
Anita Guthrie Dent, née Williamson, 1868-1948 (daughter of Stephen Williamson MP) 1
Annandale and Eskdale Regiment of Local Militia 1
Annunzio, Gabriele d', poet, 1863-1938 1
Anstruther, Mary Elma (née Hovell-Thurlow, wife of Arthur Wellesley, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, then Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce) 1
Apthorp, D P, Captain, Royal Norfolk Regiment, fl 1942-1945 1
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Corps of Royal Engineers 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Engineers 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Arundel, Honor, novelist and journalist, 1919-1973 1
Ascherson, Charles Neal, b. 1932 (journalist, writer, and historian) 1
Baillie, May, music teacher, St Leonards School, St Andrews, fl 1903-1910 1
Barclay, Annie, wife of David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1948 1
Barclay, David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1946 1
Barnet, Alexander Avon, Commander, Royal Navy, 1904-1985 1
Baume, Louis Charles, mountaineer, 1919-1993 1
Beattie, Thomas, Muckledale, fl 1806 1
Bell, Alan Scott, library and literary consultant, 1942-2018 1
Bell, William, architect, b 1881 1
Bethune, John Drinkwater, colonel, historian, formerly Drinkwater, 1762-1844 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821 1
Bienert, Werner, German Language Teacher, 1902-1988 1
Birnie, Arthur, Lecturer in Economic History, University of Edinburgh, b 1890 1
Blackwood, Algernon Henry, writer of supernatural fiction, 1869-1951 1
Blackwood, William, William (publisher) 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bloxham, family, Banbury 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Bogie, David Wilson, Sheriff, 1946-1999 1
Borland, John, 1796-1885 (merchant and emigrant) 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Boyd, James, Edinburgh, schoolboy, fl 1850 1
Brocklebank, Thomas Anthony, mountaineer and teacher, 1908-1984 1
Brodie, James, of Brodie, fl 1671-1673 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Andrew, South Africa, telegraph controller, fl 1899-1905 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Henry, Galashiels, textile manufacturer, d 1885 1
Brown, John, Minister of Whitburn Secession Church, 1754-1832 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Brown, Thomas Graham, neurophysiologist and mountaineer, 1882-1965 1
Bruce, John, 1775-1834 (schoolmaster and author) 1
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