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Diaries.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to books containing the daily, personal accounts of the writer's own experiences, attitudes, and observations. (AAT) Use to refer to all personal diaires, whether by a named individual or not. (NLS) .

Found in 2676 Collections and/or Records:

Shooting diary kept at Lude House, Blair Atholl.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7051
Scope and Contents

Including notes and sketches.

Dates: 1883-1884.

Six diaries of Arthur Birnie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11018
Scope and Contents

Includes transcript and notes.

Dates: 1906-1909, 1934-1936.

Six notebooks of Honor Arundel.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10238
Scope and Contents

Notebooks contain poetry, prose and a diary.

Dates: 1939-1972.

Small notebooks written almost entirely in pencil containing part of a diary of an officer of the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons (Hussars), probably Edward Simpson Grey, whilst on service in India.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15394-15400
Scope and Contents The first six volumes cover the period from 5 October 1857, when he embarked from Ireland, to 12 January 1860, and the seventh from 21 November 1863 to 27 April 1864, when he returned to England. Although the notebooks are numbered consecutively (perhaps in another hand) from 1 to 7 it seems clear that if the diary was kept continuously, several more notebooks, covering the period from 13 January 1860 to 20 November 1863, must be missing. Although none of the notebooks is signed, it seems...
Dates: 1857-1864.

Small pocket diaries of Florence Marian McNeill, used to note engagements., 1931-1946.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26249-26254
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1931-1946.

Small pocket diary of Florence Marian McNeill, used to note engagements., 1931.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26249
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1931.

Small pocket diary of Florence Marian McNeill, used to note engagements., 1932.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26250
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1932.

Small pocket diary of Florence Marian McNeill, used to note engagements., 1933.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26251
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1933.

Small pocket diary of Florence Marian McNeill, used to note engagements., 1941.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26252
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1941.

Small pocket diary of Florence Marian McNeill, used to note engagements., 1943.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26253
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1943.

Small pocket diary of Florence Marian McNeill, used to note engagements., 1946.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26254
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1946.

Small quantities of leaves from accounts of travels, with some letters, of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson., 1874-1889.

 File
Identifier: MS.20194
Scope and Contents The contents consist of: (i) Leaves from a journal of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of a voyage to Egypt and letters, September-October 1874, to her sister Elizabeth (folio 1); (ii) Parts of a diary, apparently in the form of letters to her niece Elizabeth S Haldane, of a tour in Italy, November 1881-January 1882 (folio 36); (iii) Extracts, in a later hand, of an account of her first voyage to India, November-December 1885, of her diaries 1887-1888, and of her last voyage to India, December 1888...
Dates: 1874-1889.

Some Holidays and Sails, Cycle, Motor Cycle and Car Runs and Aircraft Flights., September 1946- March 1966.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6334/20-26
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Concerning his mountaineering expeditions in the British Isles, the Alps and Canada.

Dates: September 1946- March 1966.

Sporting diary of the 7th Marquess of Lothian, describing shooting and fishing, chiefly in Scotland and Norfolk., 1816-1824.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5790
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 1816-1824.

`The Bass Rock and Reminiscences of Days spent on it with Harold Raburn [sic] By William Douglas, 1929`.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13446
Scope and Contents

At the back of the volume, are notes on the history of the Bass Rock. A letter of Ruth Raeburn to William Douglas, 1930, press cuttings and articles are pasted in or loosely enclosed.

Dates: 1929 - 1929

The Graham Brown Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4338/1-247
Scope and Contents

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1877-1962.

'The Journal of a square-peg:' diaries, of John M Reid, the author 'David Toulmin' (born 1913).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26260-26275
Scope and Contents

John M Reid spent much of his life as a farm servant in Aberdeenshire, writing in his spare time. As well as recording day-to-day events on the farm, his diaries contain comments on books and films, reflections on current affairs, copies of letters and reminiscences of his earlier life. He later revised the diaries for publication, making additions and deletions.

Dates: 1946-1956.

"The Poet`s Journal" of George Crabbe., 1779-1780.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42067
Scope and Contents

Title taken from the `Index of English Literary Manuscripts`, volume 3, part 1, page 296 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.

Dates: 1779-1780.