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Mostly written from South Africa, describing camp life and commenting on the blockhouse system.

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Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...

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The box is covered in a school jersey from Lochyside RC Primary School.

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The African section of the archive of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council, 1965-75 (with some earlier material). This deposit also includes material relevant to Jamaica (1938-1966).

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Includes transcript of description. With letter and pocket book containg active service notes.

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Recording his campaigns in South Africa, South America, and the Peninsular War, with photocopy of printed transcript, 1921.

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A copy in typescript carbon presented, December 1903, by Colonel Forbes Macbean and Captain W E Gordon to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Greenhill-Gardyne.

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Gives impressions of the scenery, games and meeting with missionaries, including David Livingstone.

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Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.

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...

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...

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Describing service in the Royal Engineers in South Africa and German East Africa.

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Letters from family friends in the Borders, and from army colleagues of Sir Philip, including several letters from South Africa.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...

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The manuscript begins : "After spending some sixteen years in teaching honesty to the Africans ... "

MS.42420, folios 81-82 would seem to refer to this alternative preface and, therefore, to supply a date of October 1857 for its creation.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...

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The proof has been annotated by David Livingstone and by John Murray III. The engraving was taken from a sketch by Captain Henry Need.

The illustration was included in "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", facing page 332.

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The proof has been annotated by David Livingstone and by John Murray III. The engraving was made from a sketch by Captain Henry Need.

The illustration was included in "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", facing page 380.