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Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Assessments claimed in respect of the local Poor Law Acts on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5431
Dates: 1842-1848.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

BSB The Orpheus No.8 Friday March 20th 1835.

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Identifier: Acc.13869
Dates: 1835.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13436
Scope and Contents

The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.

Dates: 1798-1854, undated
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Document concerning a proposed Guild of Co-operative Pioneers, Glasgow.

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Identifier: Acc.3743
Dates: 1876.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Illustrated letters of H Wilson, pseudonym Hall Tweed, to Mrs C Whalley, London.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11842
Scope and Contents

Wilson describes life in Greenock and Glasgow.

Dates: 1816-1820.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal and letters of Captain Edward Henry Columbine, Royal Navy.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11610
Scope and Contents

Columbine describes places in Northern Ireland and on the west coast of Scotland, the Firth of Clyde and Glasgow, visited while on anti-smuggling duty.

Dates: 1792.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`

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Identifier: Acc.13639
Scope and Contents The author of this illustrated journal lived at Bedford Villa, Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol, and was probably Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Octavius Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol.The writer and `Charles` travelled from Bristol to Melrose by train and visited Abbotsford, Melrose Abbey and Dryburgh Abbey before leaving for Edinburgh. Queen Victoria had recently been in Edinburgh and there are numerous pasted in printed drawings of scenes of her visit. The...
Dates: 1886
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a tour in Scotland.

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Identifier: Acc.11887
Dates: 1814.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a tour in Scotland of a dissenting English preacher.

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Identifier: Acc.13235
Scope and Contents The writer travelled from the vicinity of Hertford to Scotland to preach in order to raise funds for the Hibernian Society. While in Scotland he met with Seccession ministers and other Dissenters, preaching on numerous occasions to large congregations. Places visited include Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Paisley, Port Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen. Although preaching was the main purpose of the tour, this was the writer`s first visit to Scotland and he comments as a tourist on his...
Dates: 1820.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a tour in Scotland of Elizabeth Susannah Graham

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Identifier: Acc.13509
Scope and Contents

The journal describes a visit to Scotland in the autumn of 1819 made by Elizabeth Susannah Graham and her daughter Eliza Maria Graham. The tour includes lively descriptions of visits to New Lanark, Glasgow, a steam boat trip on Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, the Caledonian Canal, Inverary, Staffa and Oban. The tour ends with a visit to Edinburgh and the journal includes descriptions of pictures viewed at the premises of Alexander Nasmyith and Henry Raeburn.

Dates: 1819
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'Journal of a tour on foot through part of the Highlands', possibly by Peter Ramsay of Edinburgh.

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Identifier: Acc.14070
Scope and Contents

The author and his brother Robert set off from Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, on 15 August 1812. They travel to Glasgow where they spend a couple of days (including visits to factories) and then on Dumbarton and Luss. The journal ends only a few days into their tour after their ascent of Ben Lomond.

Dates: 1812.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a voyage from Glasgow to Buenos Aires, probably a retrospective fair copy.

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Identifier: Acc.12461
Dates: 1865-1866.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Lucy Elizabeth Sherwood.

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Identifier: Acc.8679
Scope and Contents

During a visit to Glasgow and Edinburgh, and a long stay at Seggieden.

Dates: 1826-1827.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Ledger, Glasgow, of the Insurance Company of Scotland.

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Identifier: Acc.5252
Dates: 1836-1848.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Legal papers, maps and prospectuses, largely concerning a Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh canal, and the Slamannan Railway, Stirlingshire.

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Identifier: Acc.5855
Dates: circa 1835-circa 1856.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter of William Blackwood to John Bradfute.

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Identifier: Acc.10814
Scope and Contents

Concerns bookselling in Glasgow.

Dates: 1797.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter recounting a tour through Scotland.

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Identifier: Acc.13633
Scope and Contents

Letter to Mr Haddon, 28 September, 1839 of a tour through Scotland. The tour goes through Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee, Culloden, and back through Ayr to view the Eglinton Tournament of 1839.

Dates: 1839
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letters, memoranda and press cuttings relating mainly to Janie Allan and the work of the Women's Social and Political Union in Glasgow.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4498/1-6
Dates: Circa 1900-1914.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Magazine in manuscript, 'The Gael', created by Marjory Bonar.

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Identifier: Acc.14198
Scope and Contents 17 issues of 'The Gael: A magazine for mutual improvement' compiled between 1874 and 1887 by Marjorie Bonar of Glasgow from contributions from family members. The magazine (later bound together in a volume) contains articles, poems and illustrations. It includes descriptions of their excursions in Scotland, including a holiday in Oban, an account of ascending Ben Cruachan and an excursion to Iona and Staffa, and even some comic sketches about a journey to America in 1881. There was a...
Dates: 1874-1887.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Minute book of the Glasgow Theological Academy

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Identifier: Acc.13194
Scope and Contents Minute book, 1811-1842, of the Glasgow Theological Academy, and transcription by Dr William D. McNaughton, 2009.Robert Haldane's Theological Seminary had foundered by 1808, but highlighted the need for the young Congregational churches to facilitate ministerial education. The circulation of Greville Ewing's paper, 'A Memorial on Education for the Ministry of the Gospel', served to further increase interest in the subject, and church meetings in Perth and Dundee urged the need to...
Dates: 1811-1842.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

"Notices and Documents Illustrative of the Literary History of Glasgow..." (Maitland Club, 1831), with annotations by G P Johnston.

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Identifier: Acc.9665
Dates: 1831.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers concerning "Writing Together: an International Festival of Writing", Glasgow.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10391
Scope and Contents

Includes reports, memoranda, committee minutes and letters from among others, Sorley MacLean, Naomi Mitchison and Edwin Morgan.

Dates: 1990.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Adam Elder, emigrant to Australia.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13214
Scope and Contents Papers, 1902–1927, of Adam Elder (1879-1961), emigrant to Australia. Adam Elder was born in Hawick, Scotland, in 1879. After serving an apprenticeship to the joiner trade, he moved to Glasgow where he acquired significant knowledge of building construction and trained in sanitary science. In 1903 he was appointed Assistant Sanitary Inspector of the Burgh of Port Glasgow and in 1906 he became Sanitary Inspector and Inspector of Cleansing of the same authority. Adam Elder emigrated to...
Dates: 1902-1927.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Thomas Hannan of Maryhill, relating to his conscientious objection during the First World War, and subsequent imprisonment in Dartmoor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13388
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the conscientious objection of Thomas Hannan of Maryhill, Glasgow, 1916-1926. Included are papers relating to his tribunal hearings and subsequent imprisonment, including a letter written from HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, a letter detailing his removal to Dartmoor prison, programmes relating to concert productions by inmates at Dartmoor, postcards sent from the prison to Hannan’s family, and his military discharge certificate. Particularly poignant are the letters between...
Dates: 1916-1926.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photocopy of a transcript of a journal describing a voyage from Glasgow to Queensland, Australia, by Margaret Hinshelwood.

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Identifier: Acc.12149
Dates: 1883.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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