Egypt. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 30.0000. Latitude: 27.0000.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
43 letters addressed to David Roberts.
File
Identifier: Acc.11760
Scope and Contents
Addressed to Roberts in London, Spain, Egypt and India by correspondents in Scotland and Spain concerning artistic and social matters.
Dates:
1831-1843.
A plan of the operations of the British Forces in Egypt from the landing in Aboukir Bay on the 8 of March to the Battle of Alexandria, 21 inclusive. London: W. Faden, May 28, 1801., 1801.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(139)
Scope and Contents
Coloured map.
Dates:
Other: 1801.
Diaries of Robert Black.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7953
Scope and Contents
Concerning tours in Egypt, Turkey and Palestine.
Dates:
1892 and 1895.
Egypt., 1919-1937.
File
Identifier: Acc.3721/42/28
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series of files was placed in R E Muirhead's room in the Scottish Secretariat Office.
Dates:
1919-1937.
Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-5, of James Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma during the Second World War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13598
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-1945, of James `Jimmy` Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma.James Gordon was born in 1916 in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. A gifted artist and art teacher, Gordon enlisted with the British Army during the Second World War. His journal begins on 10 November 1941, and records daily observations and his thoughts during his journey from the Clyde on board the troopship Aorangi. He describes Freetown, Sierra Leone, in...
Dates:
1941-1945
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 Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents
The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates:
1852-1867
Letter of Robert Michael Ballantyne to his wife from Egypt, discussing his health.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12892
Dates:
1892.
Letters of Angus Graham to his sister, Dorothy Vaughan Johnson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9390
Scope and Contents
Written while on active service in France and Egypt.
Dates:
1914-1918.
[Map of British position at Alexandria, 13/3/1801. Signed] Alexr Fraser. 42nd Regt., 1801.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(140)
[Map of] Position of the British troops under the command of Lieut General Hutchinson during the siege of Alexandria commenced 17th of Aug. 1801., 1801.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(141)
"Observations on Egypt, Syria and Greece made during a three years cruise in HMS Myrmidon", an account by George Sibbald, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12668
Dates:
? 1816-1818.
Papers of Andrew Brown.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8258
Scope and Contents
Comprising eight notebooks and one photocopied notebook.
Including diary, 1899, of the Boer War, journal, 1905, of voyage from Johannesburg to Europe, via Egypt, Palestine and Greece, and poetry and reflections.
Dates:
1899-1905.
Papers of Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to the 51st (Highland) Division in the First and Second World Wars.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7380/1-95
Scope and Contents
Maps, accounts, diaries, lectures and other papers, mainly concerning operations, 1942-1943, of the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa and Sicily, together with a smaller quantity of associated post-war correspondence and some papers, 1918, concerning the Division in the First World War.
Dates:
1914-1976, undated.
Photograph album of a visit to Egypt and Gibraltar, possibly of Bessie Hamilton Newlands, of Glasgow, daughter of Alexander Newlands, engineer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14603
Dates:
1933
Photograph album of Joseph Vaughan Russell, of Glasgow, containing 104 photographs taken whilst on active service in Egypt and Turkey during the First World War.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13824
Dates:
1914-1918.
Photographs, 1917, of nursing staff and patients at 2nd Scottish General Hospital, Craigleith, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10189
Scope and Contents
Includes later photographs of views in Egypt and Palestine on a voyage in the eastern Mediterranean.
Dates:
1917 and undated.
Photographs compiled by John Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, while Press Counsellor, British Embassy, Cairo.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10237
Dates:
circa 1944-1947.
Photographs taken by WIlliam Stanley Moss and others in Crete during the occupation, including photographs of the arrival of General Kreipe in Egypt., [1941-1945].
File
Identifier: Acc.13338/623
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
[1941-1945].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
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Photographs, sketches and other visual material.
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Photographs, slides and negatives.
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World War II photographs.
Plan du Passage du lac Burelos a la Mer., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(142)
Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, photographs and proofs of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13681
Scope and Contents
1). Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, press-cuttings and proofs, 1896-ca.1960, undated.i. Postcards, 1896-1903, undated.ii. Christmas card, early 20th century.iii. Typescript verse of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, undated.iv. Press-cuttings, 1949, undated.v. Proofs, 1956, of `Literary Landmarks of Scotland`, articles by Isobel Wylie Hutchison for the `National Geographic` magazine.2. Photographs, ca.1900-1962,...
Dates:
1896-1962, undated.
Press cuttings concerning Egypt., 1920-1929.
File
Identifier: Acc.3721/142/265
Six albums of pen and watercolour sketches by H G M Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and his friends.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12786
Scope and Contents
Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.
Dates:
circa 1890-1919.
Sketch book of F. Gregory Jones of a visit to the Holy Land., 1910.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13718/9
Three letters of Thomas Cooper Vander Hurst to David Roberts.
File
Identifier: Acc.9619
Scope and Contents
Concerning Egypt and Turkey.
Dates:
1840.