Palestine. Middle East. Historical region. Longitude: 35.3333. Latitude: 31.9167.
Subject
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Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Climbing diary notebooks of Graham Brown, relating to Palestine., 1939.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/83-87
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
Dates:
1939.
Diaries of Robert Black.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7953
Scope and Contents
Concerning tours in Egypt, Turkey and Palestine.
Dates:
1892 and 1895.
Diary of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, containing to visit to Palestine., March-April 1960.
File
Identifier: Acc.9713/53
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes diaries and photographs.
Dates:
March-April 1960.
Diary of Mary Steel-Maitland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5553
Scope and Contents
Concerning a trip to Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey.
Dates:
1931-1932.
Four albums of photographs by James Simson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3348
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Palestine, Syria, the Levant, Athens, Vienna and Strasbourg, and photocopies of 10 volumes of travel journals.
Dates:
1876.
Letter of David Roberts to George Grove.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11011
Scope and Contents
Concerns Grove`s travels in Palastine and Syria.
Dates:
1861.
Lists compiled by David Roberts of subjects for drawings for inclusion in a work on Palestine, Idumea and Sinai. With the lists is a sketch by Roberts of the temple of Kalábshe, Nubia., ? 1839.
File
Identifier: MS.42531
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-2 : "List of subjects for a work on Palestine", ?1839;folios 3-4 : list of subjects, ?1839, "Idumea";folios 5-6 : list of subjects, 1839 : Suez and the Red Sea; Sinai; Petra; and,folio 7 : pen and ink sketch, "General View of the Temple of Kalábshe, Nubia", with notes concerning the temple.The lists of subjects would appear to relate to the publication, "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" : a series of lithographs...
Dates:
? 1839.
Nine townplanning reports, eight concerning India and one concerning Palestine, compiled by Sir Patrick Geddes.
File
Identifier: Acc.12497
Dates:
1914-1925.
Notes of photographs taken, possibly in Palestine., 1939.
File
Identifier: Acc.4338/88
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
Dates:
1939.
Notes of tours in Italy, Palestine, Syria & Turkey, Hungary and Germany of William E Baxter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14212
Scope and Contents
These notes have been compiled from earlier travel journals.
Dates:
1873-1875
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.
Photographic slides of the Holy Land [HL]., [1950]-1971, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10605/31-39
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.
Press cuttings concerning Palestine., 1922-1930.
File
Identifier: Acc.3721/143/270
Prints from the original negatives of George Adam Smith collection of photographs taken in Palestine.
File
Identifier: Acc.9314
Dates:
circa 1904.
Sketch book of F. Gregory Jones of a visit to the Holy Land., 1910.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13718/9
Three photographic portraits of Laurence Oliphant; with a photograph of a room in Oliphant`s house in Haifa, Palestine., ? 1860s-? 1880s.
File
Identifier: MS.42515
Scope and Contents
Each photograph has an annotation on the verso :
(f.) "Laurence Oliphant" taken by "Herbert Watkins, Photographer, 215, Regent Street" ;
(f.) "Enlarged from C. de V. photograph of Laurence Oliphant" [copy];
(f.) "Laurence Oliphant" [copy]; and,
(f.) "Laurence Oliphant`s house at Haifa, Palestine. Rev. Haslett Smith seated".
Dates:
? 1860s-? 1880s.
‘Travels in Palestine, May 1876: an extract from the furlough diary of James Simson, Commissioner of Allahabad, Bengal Civil Service’, including a description of a similar visit by Colonel Alexander M. Simson, May 1964.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13683
Scope and Contents
An extract from the travel diary of James Simson, Commissioner of Allahabad with the Bengal Civil Service, on a trip to Palestine. This extract is taken from a more extensive diary written by James Simson when, on his return to Scotland from India on furlough in 1876, he broke his journey with a visit to Palestine. He records visits to Baalbek, Damascus, Ephesus and Corinth, and then the outline of his sea trip to Constantinople, before travelling on to Scotland by train.The...
Dates:
1876, 1964
Wartime sketch book of Patrick Leigh Fermor, including sketches of Albania, Crete and Palestine., 1941.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13338/665
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.
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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Sketches, drawings and other visual material.
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Sketches by Patrick Leigh Fermor.