London. Europe - United Kingdom - England - Greater London. Inhabited place. Longitude: -0.1667. Latitude: 51.5000.
Subject
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Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Cashbook of a Scotsman, probably John Webster, resident in London.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9109
Dates:
1781-1799.
Diary of James Robb`s voyage from London to Melbourne, with a transcript of the diary and biographical notes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13645
Dates:
1891
Diary of Patrick Hamilton Drummond of a voyage from London to Melbourne.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5700
Dates:
1874.
Diary of the Honourable Elsie Cameron Corbett.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14162
Scope and Contents
The diary contains descriptive daily entries on Corbett's social life around her family's estates in Ayrshire, Scotland and in Chelsea, London, and remarks on contemporary Liberal politics, including the progress of campaigns for women's suffrage. The volume also contains a large number of pasted-in snapshot photographs taken by Corbett and her family in Scotland, and cuttings from London theatre programmes and periodicals.
Dates:
1913-1914.
Essays relating to London., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8802/112
Household cash book, London, Eastbourne and Paris., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/601
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1844.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Accounts for Fettercairn and other estates.
Journal of a continental tour of Andrew MacInnes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13701
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour to France, Switzerland and Germany by Andrew MacInnes and `Richard`. At the back of the volume are accounts of expenses on the tour, mileages and a number of Scottish songs. The notebook is bound in a larger twentieth century volume together with a full transcript and a letter of 1928 of Andrew MacInnes, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, son of the diarist, to his nephew Clayton McCall donating the journal to him. Andrew MacInnes and his companion...
Dates:
1830
Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`
Collection
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
Journal of an un-named law apprentice (later a member of the Faculty of Advocates).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11721
Scope and Contents
Details his life in Perth and Edinburgh, holidays in the Highlands and Skye, a trip to the Great Exhibition, London, and travels in the south of England.
Dates:
1850-1852.
Letters of Captain Alexander Lindsay to his brother, Thomas Lindsay, merchant, Montrose. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13230
Scope and Contents
27 letters and one bill of lading of Alexander Lindsay to Thomas Lindsay. The letters are written from ports visited by Alexander Linsday during his career as a sea captain. Places visited include Calcutta, Madras, the Cape of Good Hope, Havre de Graca, Hamburg, as well as Portsmouth and London. One letter tells of his imprisonment by the French and an attack by pirates. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.
Dates:
1789-1799.
Letters of Henrietta, Lady Liston, to James Jackson, Customs Official, Glasgow.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13465
Scope and Contents
Henrietta Liston`s letters to her step-uncle, James Jackson, were written before and after her husband`s embassy to the United States of America and before and during his posting to The Hague.
Dates:
1796, 1801-1802
London branch., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.3721/89/26
Manuscript notes concerning London, relating to 'Curriculum Vitae', by Muriel Spark., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/214-215
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing manuscripts, research material for critical works, and papers concerning her autobiography, 'Curriculum vitae'.
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Papers of Muriel Spark, relating to her autobiography.
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Papers of Muriel Spark, relating to autobiography, 'Curriculum vitae' (London: Constable, 1992).
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Research material and notes, relating to 'Curriculum Vitae', by Muriel Spark.
Notes and sketches made on voyages from Jamaica to London and back.
File
Identifier: Acc.6323
Dates:
1834-1836.
Papers concerning the London Memorial to Sir William Wallace
File
Identifier: Acc.13702
Scope and Contents
Five letters to A. R. McNab in support of the proposed London Memorial to Sir William Wallace. Correspondents include Agnes Mure Mackenzie and Walter Elliot.
With a printed programme for `The Unveiling and Dedication of the London Memorial to Sir William Wallace Scottish Patriot`, 1956, signed by many of the attendees and a copy of `William Wallace National Hero of Scotland` the commemorative publication to mark the 650th Anniversary of his martyrdom.
Dates:
1954-1956
Photographs of Margaret MacDonald`s memorial and of 3 Lincoln`s Inn Fields, residence of the MacDonalds in London., c. 1980
File
Identifier: Acc.13629/14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...
Dates:
c. 1980
Pocket Ledger including notes on church architecture on a visit to London and France., Circa 1815.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/389
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
Circa 1815.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Forbes Family Notebooks.
Postcards, purchased photographs and ephemera relating to travels of Isabella Plumb outside India, including China, Toronto, Victoria, Quetta, the Lake District and London., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12680/40
Receipt of the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Company.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4556
Scope and Contents
For shipment of a box from London to Leith to Messrs J Smith and Son.
Dates:
1809.
Recipe book kept for households in Aberdeenshire and London.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11926
Dates:
circa 1881-1886.
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.
Slides showing Pembridge Square, London, birthplace of Margaret MacDonald, and her memorial outside 3 Lincoln`s Inn Fields, London., c. 1980
File
Identifier: Acc.13629/15
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...
Dates:
c. 1980