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 583 Collections and/or Records:
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
File
Identifier: MSS.8499-8499A
Dates:
1812-1854.
Extracts by William Bell Scott from the correspondence, journals, and memorandums of David Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7270
Dates:
1832-1834.
Extracts from official records, journals and newspapers, sixteenth to nineteenth century, relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2996-2998
Scope and Contents
The family connections include Butler of Harpendean, Congalton (Congilton), Cumming (Cumine), Fairholme, Fortune, Naismith, Rainnie (Rennie, Rainny). The extracts and notes are taken from various registers in HM Register House, Edinburgh Burgh records, local records in Midlothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Berwick-on-Tweed, and journals.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
First World War diary of Alexander Meiklejohn, Royal Engineers, serving with the ANZAC signals at Gallipoli.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13692
Scope and Contents
Diary of Alexander Meiklejohn, Royal Engineers, serving with the ANZAC signals at Gallipoli during the First World War. The diary covers the period March-November 1915, and begins when Meiklejohn arrives in Egypt, where he witnesses the Battle of the Wazzir, a riot involving large numbers of ANZAC troops in Cairo, on 2 April 1915. He is stationed onboard the ‘Arcadian’ in the signals office, and attached to Ian Hamilton’s staff. Meiklejohn witnesses the landing on 25 April...
Dates:
1915.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.8942-8989
Dates:
1820-1893.
Four diaries of Muriel Thomson, Headmistress of Niddrie Mains Infants and Nursery School, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.11356
Dates:
1941-1946.
Four field-diaries, numbered 21, 22, 24 and 26, 1867-1871, and notebooks, numbered 2 and 4, 1850-1854, of David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: Dep.343
Dates:
1850-1854, 1867-1871.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).
Dates:
1968-1983.
Gardening diary of Margaret Macintyre, Connel, Argyll.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11101
Scope and Contents
Mostly concerns Swanley Horticultural College, Kent, and Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire.
Dates:
1900-1918.
Gardening diary of William Mills
Item
Identifier: Acc.13655
Scope and Contents
This diary records the daily gardening activities of William Mills in series of gardens. As well as listing work undertaken Mills makes occasional comments on plants including their varieties, source and condition as well as the weather. There are also some passages of gardening advice, lists of plant varieties, a description of a Table Decoration and instructions for constructing a Lawn Tennis court.As recorded on the front endleaves, Mills was employed as a gardener on a number...
Dates:
1898-1907
Illustrated diary of a journey through the Trossachs and West Perthshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9166
Dates:
1817.
Illustrated diary of Mary Cumming Bruce.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14228
Scope and Contents
Diary of Mary Elma Cumming Bruce (later Anstruther) from September 1889 to February 1890, which contains details of family, friends and parties during the time she spent mainly in Forres and Dunphail.There are numerous illustrations of members of her circle, local people, landscapes and sketches of various scenes including dancing, women with umbrellas, a game of tiddlywinks, a woman playing the piano and men waiting to vote entitled 'Morayshire voters'.Some of the...
Dates:
1889-1890.
Journal, 1832, of a visit to Sutherland made by Stephen Place, footman to George, 1st Duke of Sutherland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11265
Scope and Contents
Includes another journal of Place, 1870-1871.
Dates:
1832-1871
Journal, 1840-1854, of James Gall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5745
Scope and Contents
With family Bible, containing genealogy, 1766-1825, of James Gall, and his descendants.
Dates:
1766-1854.
Journal, 1857, of Alexander Gibb of Laurencekirk, containing notes on family outings, and on local history and topography, frequently illustrated with plans and sketches.
File
Identifier: MS.9168
Scope and Contents
Loosely inserted (folio 53) is a printed article by Alexander Gibb, on 'The Ballad of Jack Monro', an off-print from the ‘Brechin Advertiser’, 9 February 1904.
Dates:
1857, 1904.
Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-5, of James Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma during the Second World War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13598
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...
Dates:
1941-1945
Journal and commonplace book of an inhabitant of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.5270
Dates:
1836-1844.
Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny.
File
Identifier: MS.15393
Scope and Contents
The narrative covers the period from 21 December 1855 to 3 July 1861, but with several gaps, and is followed (folio 131) by a miscellany of notes and memoranda on various topics including moral maxims, medical and household recipes, puzzles and mathematical formulae. From the formality of the layout and handwriting, the photographs and drawings pasted in at various places, and the poems and extracts interspersed in the narrative, it seems likely that this is a fair copy written up at leisure...
Dates:
1855-1861.
Journal and correspondence of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2234-2235
Dates:
1855-1875.
Journal and letters of Captain Edward Henry Columbine, Royal Navy.
File
Identifier: Acc.11610
Scope and Contents
Columbine describes places in Northern Ireland and on the west coast of Scotland, the Firth of Clyde and Glasgow, visited while on anti-smuggling duty.
Dates:
1792.
Journal and reminiscences of Miss M E McCulloch (later Ross).
Item
Identifier: MS.9482
Scope and Contents
The book opens with brief notes of a tour to Wales and Bath, 1810. This is followed (folio 4) by detailed reminiscences, written in 1813, of a prolonged visit to Bath in 1809-1810. The second part of the volume (folio 31) contains a long history, written during mourning and addressed to her children, of events in Ross's family, from her marriage in 1813 to Captain Ross, retired from naval service in the East, until his death in 1828. Among family homes mentioned are Troqueer Holm and...
Dates:
1810-1831.
Journal kept by his eldest son and annotated by the Reverend Whitwell Elwin.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10016
Dates:
1848-1851.