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 2673 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian, Lady Adam Smith, née Buchanan, and other members of the Adam Smith and Buchanan families.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.311- is now Acc.9446.
Dates:
1859-1949.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto., 1773-1822.
Series
Identifier: MSS.11042-11739
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1773-1822.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto., 1789-1859.
Series
Identifier: MSS.11740-12237
Scope and Contents
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1789-1859.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Baron Lynedoch, and of the Honourable Mary Cathcart, afterwards Mrs Graham, his wife.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.3590-3645
Dates:
1719-1850.
Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10393-10491
Scope and Contents
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1815-1967, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9771-9807
Dates:
1798-1927, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Campbell family of Inverneill.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14395
Content Description
The archive of the Campbell family of Inverneill formerly kept in Canna House, Isle of Canna. It comprises correspondence and papers mainly of the 18th century, including he the business correspondence of various family members in military or government positions. There is also a component of estate papers concerning estates around Kintyre.
Dates:
18th-19th century, the bulk dating from the 18th century.
Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.19420-19571
Scope and Contents
Arthur Elliot was the second son of the 3rd Earl of Minto and his papers form a valuable supplement to the Minto collection. Included here are papers of Sir Thomas Frederick Elliot, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Emma, Lady Hislop, the grandmother of Arthur Elliot. Particularly well represented is Elliot's mother, Nina, Countess of Minto, her papers being especially rich in her correspondence and literary manuscripts. As an active Member of Parliament over a period of...
Dates:
1828-1956, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.8501-8770
Scope and Contents
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Dates:
1898-1955.
Correspondence and papers of the Very Reverend John Lee, Principal of Edinburgh University, with the material collected by him.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.3430-3518
Dates:
1637-1873, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Thomas Carlyle and family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9086
Dates:
1822-1879.
Correspondence and papers of Valda Grieve, wife of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1933-1989, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.27221-27239
Scope and Contents
Valda Trevlyn was Christopher Murray Grieve's, "Hugh MacDiarmid's" second wife, whom he married in 1934.
Dates:
1933-1989, undated.
Correspondence and papers of William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1814-1891), 3rd Earl of Minto., 1822-1891, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.12238-12364
Scope and Contents
William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound was the eldest surviving son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1814 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1859. He was Member of Parliament for Hythe, 1837-1841, for Greenock, 1847-1852, and for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1857-1859; served as chairman of the Lunacy Commission, Scotland, 1857. As an active back-bench MP and peer, who was closely related to some of the leading political figures of his time - he was, for example, the...
Dates:
1822-1891, undated.
Correspondence, autobiographical papers, and sermons of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod, Doctor of Divinity (1831-1916), minister of The Park parish, Glasgow from 1869 to 1909, and editor of the periodical ‘Good words’ from 1872 to 1905.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9827-9833
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence concerns Donald Macleod's editorship of ‘Good words’, including many letters from contemporary authors and men of letters, with some letters of his brother, Dr Norman Macleod, minister of The Barony parish, Glasgow, and the first editor of ‘Good words’.
Dates:
1856-1925, undated.
Correspondence chiefly of Hugh Elliot and his second wife., 1777-1813.
File
Identifier: MS.12960
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of letters from Hugh Elliot's mother, 1777 (folio 1) and from his second wife, 1802-1810 (folio 5); letters of Elliot to his second wife, 1793, 1802-1803, 1806, 1810-1813 (folio 31); and Elliot's journal, May 1810-January 1811, intended for his wife (folio 249).
Dates:
1777-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Family and general correspondence and the diplomatic papers of Hugh Elliot (1752-1830), younger brother of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Family correspondence of Hugh Elliot.
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Family correspondence of Hugh Elliot.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10888/1-82
Dates:
1920s-1990s
Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19329-19405
Scope and Contents
Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, and other papers of and relating to James Robert Hope-Scott (1812-1873), of Abbotsford.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3667-3695
Scope and Contents
The papers cover the main interests of James Robert Hope-Scott's life, including the foundation of Trinity College, Glenalmond, the Protestant Bishopric of Jerusalem, his Fellowship at Merton, his travels in Europe, and various religious, ecclesiastical, and legal matters.Among the correspondents are Gladstone, Manning, and Pusey. The letters of these men and of other correspondents are extensively quoted by R Ornsby in his ‘Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott’, 1884. Ornsby also...
Dates:
1824-1873, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, and photographs, of and relating to Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver (1909-1945).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13124
Dates:
1903-1977.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Dates:
Circa 1903-1982, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20351-20400
Scope and Contents
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1773-1933, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, and photographs, of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver, 1921-1944, together with diaries and miscellaneous papers of his mother, Elizabeth Oliver, wife of Major Edward Oliver, Veterinary Advisor to the Indian government, 1905-1946, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24656-24720
Scope and Contents
Peter Oliver served with Coke's Rifles during the Second World War until his death on active service in Burma in 1945. Included here are papers relating to his army career. However, he is better known as a mountaineer, and particularly as a member of two unsuccessful Everest expeditions in 1936 and 1938. Climbing regularly in the Himalayas and to a lesser extent in the Alps during the 1930s, Oliver's papers are noteworthy for his detailed climbing journals, his articles on mountaineering,...
Dates:
1905-1946, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
circa 1916-2006.
Correspondence, diaries, photographs and other papers of Seton Gordon, including some of Audrey Seton Gordon and their children.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 1(1)-[Volume] 21
Scope and Contents
Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.
Dates:
1894-1977, undated.