Paris. Europe - France - Ile-de-France - Ville de Paris, Department de. Inhabited place. Longitude: 2.3333. Latitude: 48.8667.
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Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Account of the Savoy Mission by Alexander Donaldson
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13191
Scope and Contents
Copy of account of the Savoy mission, 1884, by Alexander Donaldson, together with a transcription of an autobiography of Donaldson, 1892, and other accounts of his life and work, including copies of obituaries for him, 1902.Born in Fordyce in 1838, Alexander Donaldson spent the first part of his life helping his parents run the family farm. Donaldson gave up the lease on the farm after the death of his parents, and in 1879-80 went to Aberdeen to study French. Donaldson was an...
Dates:
1884-1902.
Description, undated, of the Paris Commune by Gustave Cluseret, and letter, 1893, of Edouard Vaillant, both to William Diack.
File
Identifier: Acc.8968
Dates:
1893 and undated.
Diary of Henry Davidson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7666
Scope and Contents
Concerning a stay at Paris.
Dates:
1814.
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 continental tour of Lady Mary Christopher Nisbet Hamilton
Item
Identifier: Acc.13811
Dates:
1857.
Journal of Alexander Ballantyne recording a tour of Germany, the Low Countries and Paris, via Waterloo, beginning and ending in Kelso.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12639
Scope and Contents
Includes a journal of expenses.
Dates:
1817.
Journal of Robert Mylne, recording a visit to Paris.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13689
Scope and Contents
Journal of Robert Mylne, recording a visit to Paris with James Watt, 1839. Robert William Mylne (1816-1890), engineer and geologist, visited Paris between April and May 1839 with James Watt (1769-1848), engineer and manufacturer. The main focus of the visit as recorded in the journal is the regular negotiation with Francois Arago, leading to the publication of Arago’s ‘Eloge’ to James Watt, the elder, later that year. Also recorded are Mylne’s own investigations and proposals...
Dates:
1839
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 Charles Hamilton to James Stothert.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11830
Scope and Contents
Letter mentions events and the mood in Paris and discusses the possibility of returning from London to Scotland.
Dates:
1789.
Letter of General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11732
Scope and Contents
Brisbane comments on the Peninsular War, his service in America and his activities in Paris.
Dates:
1815.
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
List of donors to Rogart Church`s appeal to assist in the post-war reconstruction of the Scots Kirk in Paris, then under the ministry of Donald Caskie.
File
Identifier: Acc.12924
Scope and Contents
Includes an acknowledgement letter from the Church of Scotland Overseas Department.
Dates:
circa 1949.
Notebook containing lecture notes taken by Allen Thomson when in Paris.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11114
Dates:
1829.
Notes taken by Gaspar de l`Eglise from lectures on literature and philosophy given by James Cheyne at the Collège de Ste-Barbe, Paris
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Identifier: Acc.10490
Dates:
1578-1579.
Papers of Donald Caskie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8846
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs, press cuttings and sermons.
Dates:
1935-1974.
Photocopy of a drawing by Jessie M King of 7 Passage Moret, Paris.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8434
Dates:
Undated
Photocopy of a letter of W Balvaird.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8356
Scope and Contents
Concerning the sights of Paris.
Dates:
1815.
Photographs of fellow workers of the Friends' Services Committee and various places visited, including Strasbourg, Paris, Grénoble and Menton., 1920.
File
Identifier: Acc.8695/172
Scope and Contents
Some photographs are annotated on the back.
Dates:
1920.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.
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Photographs relating to the Chalmers and Lorimer families, including friends, colleagues and notable buildings and places.
Sketchbook, 1912, of Nigel Trotter.
File
Identifier: Acc.6643
Scope and Contents
Containing sketches of architectural subjects in Paris, Chartres, and Rouen.
With biographical note, 1976, on Alec and Alys Trotter, by I F Westlake.
Dates:
1912, 1976.
Travel journals of Robert Sym WS recording visits to Paris, the Low Countries and Northern France, and Hamburg.
File
Identifier: Acc.12708
Scope and Contents
Includes a printed map of Paris and typed transcript.
Dates:
1802-1819.
Two pen and ink drawings of Jessie M King, "Passage Barbett" and Passage Moret".
File
Identifier: Acc.7048
Scope and Contents
For an unpublished book of historic Paris views.
Dates:
Undated