Scope and Contents This album consists largely watercolours of places visited in Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Devon and Cornwall between 1910 and 1924. Many are signed Florrie Bankes, or F.B. Places depicted include Loch Laggan, Loch Achray, Loch Katrine, Ackergill Tower, Balmacarra, the castle of Eilean Donan and Loch Duich, Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Ben Cruachan, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, the road to Mallaig, Gruinard, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Lochaillort, Loch Feochan.The album also includes a number of...

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Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.

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Records a tour of France and Switzerland.

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Detailing travels in France and Switzerland.

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Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

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Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

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The journal covers a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy untaken between 29 June 1829 and early August 1830.

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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Documenting an expedition in Switzerland.

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...

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Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).

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Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).

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Letter concerns Chilton`s continental travels, mentioning especially, and with enthusiasm, the scenery of Switzerland.

Scope and Contents This manuscript recounts a visit Hobhouse made to Switzerland in 1816. It details meetings with Lord Byron and Madame de Stael, as well as other people and places Hobhouse encountered during his journey.This work by Hobhouse was published by John Murray in 1859 as the first chapter of 'Italy : remarks made in several visits from the year 1816 to 1854'.The language of the manuscript is English, but where a remark was made in French, Hobhouse has recorded it...

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This series of files was placed in R E Muirhead's room in the Scottish Secretariat Office.

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Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook compiled by Lady Isobel Scott, consisting largely of autographs, drawings and photographs of places visited. Most are country houses including Monteviot, Woodburn, Beaulieu, Newbattle Abbey, Kiplin in Northumberland, Fountains Abbey, Bishop`s House, Kennington, Boughton House, Kettering, Falconhurst in Kent, Drumlanrig Castle and Douglas Castle. In addition, there are a number of entries relating to visits to Admiralty House, Devonport, a series of photographs taken on visit to...