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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 584 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of a city missionary in Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5013
Scope and Contents

Recording meetings and visits in Stockbridge and the Canongate.

Dates: 1858-1862.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a Miss Ewbank of York, covering the period 9 September 1803 to 11 September, 1805.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9481
Scope and Contents

The narrative opens with an account of a tour in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, but most of the text is concerned with social life in York. The writer was a niece of the Reverend Andrew Ewbank, rector of Londesborough, Yorkshire, and many entries relate to his family. Amongst prominent personalities are Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, the novelist, and Dr Henry Moyes, a blind Scottish lecturer on popular science. A few pages have been torn out.

Dates: 1803-1805.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a Scots seaman.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9850
Scope and Contents

The journal contains a very brief outline of events during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars, chiefly against the French and Spanish fleets in the Mediterranean. Little of the action is described in detail, but there are some vivid accounts of naval life and discipline.

Dates: 1795-1802.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a tour of Ireland and Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14227
Scope and Contents

According to the tour's anonymous (probably Irish) author, the tour party consisted of: ‘a man and his wife who deserted their children; a man in love; a married woman who absconded from the husband, and a young lady in search of one’. In Scotland they spend time in the Lowlands including Glasgow, Edinburgh, the Trossachs, Stirling, Dalkeith and Roslin. The tourists are interested both in Scotland’s scenery and its industry, particularly its textile manufacture.

Dates: 1836.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a tour of Scotland of Elizabeth Cowburn.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14154
Scope and Contents

Elizabeth Cowburn departs from London, travelling through Scotland by train, steamer and carriage. Places visited include Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dunkeld, Blair Atholl, Inverness, Stirling and Iona. The journal includes pencil sketchess and pasted in printed illustrations.

Dates: 1854
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a visit to the Great Exhibition, by John Tod.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9211
Dates: 1851.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of an un-named law apprentice (later a member of the Faculty of Advocates).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11721
Scope and Contents

Details his life in Perth and Edinburgh, holidays in the Highlands and Skye, a trip to the Great Exhibition, London, and travels in the south of England.

Dates: 1850-1852.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Anne Murray of Lintrose.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9398
Dates: 1842-1845.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Captain John Drinkwater (later Drinkwater Bethune), 72nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Volunteers), during the siege of Gibraltar.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12502
Dates: 1781-1782.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Francis Goode Cuningham`s trip to New Zealand, with related news cuttings and two photographs.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13089
Scope and Contents Francis Goode Cuningham`s journal describes an ill-starred venture to export 2000 sheep from Australia to New Zealand, an entreprise which he undertakes with a New Zealand sheep farmer called A.G. Chalmers, who had already secured a station near Otago. Cuningham is to take a half share and see what New Zealand might hold for him in the way of a future. His journal contains many observations about the landscape and geography of parts of New Zealand which had not been properly surveyed....
Dates: March-September 1858.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Henry Siddons.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5731
Dates: 1832-1833.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of James Gall.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8874
Dates: 1809-1813.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of James Pollock, master cotton spinner, Paisley.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10137
Dates: 1818-1830, 1838.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of John Calder (1743-1783), minister of Rosskeen.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14279
Scope and Contents

The journal covers the period from January 1775 to December 1782, but there are many gaps, the largest being from January 1779 to October 1781. The entries are brief and largely of a personal and religious nature, although mention is made of social events and parochial duties.

Dates: 1775-1782.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of John Ivor Murray, army surgeon (1824-1903).

 Item
Identifier: MS.9843
Scope and Contents The first pages contain an account of John Murray’s voyage from Shanghai to Hong Kong in February 1854. The greater part of the journal is concerned with his homeward journey, and describes the events from the time of Murray's final departure from Shanghai in January 1855 (folio 15), until his arrival at Constantinople in August the same year, when he offered his medical services to the allied forces at Sebastopol. It includes a detailed account, with occasional illustrations, of his travels...
Dates: 1854-1855.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of John Paton.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8273
Scope and Contents

Paton was pressed in to the Royal Navy.

Including description of the Battle of Cape St Vincent.

Dates: 1778-1789.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Morley Jamieson and manuscript of his "Echoes and Eccentrics: a Personal Account of Bookselling 1942-1966"

 File
Identifier: Acc.8878
Dates: 1961-1984.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Robert Hathorn Stewart of Physgill.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10696-10698
Scope and Contents Until March 1771, Robert Stewart served with the Royal Fusiliers and was stationed at Fort William and Chatham. His journal for this period chiefly concerns his social life, though it does include references to courts martial, marches to Berwick and Chatham, a review by the king at Greenwich (folio 50), and visits to Chatham dockyard. In 1771, Stewart returned to Physgill House in Whithorn, and the rest of his journal concerns the management of the estate and social life in Wigtownshire,...
Dates: 1770-1772, 1777-1784.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Sapper - Jack, of Blackhall, Midlothian.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.3607
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1916-1917.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Sieur de la Croix, as secretary to the French embassy to the Ottoman Empire.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.5 (i)-(iii)
Dates: 1673-1678.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Sir J Randall Philip.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4157
Dates: 1947-1957.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Sir Walter Scott, with letters and other papers.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3389
Scope and Contents The journal, printed, as in MS.1570, but covering the period from 20 November 1825 to 13 April 1831, and other material collected by John Gibson Lockhart for the ‘Life’, all printed on one side of the page, with manuscript corrections of the text, chiefly typographical.The material other than the journal consists of Mrs John Davy's Malta journal, 1831 (folio 437); letters of Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Scott of Harden, 1832 (folio 444 verso), and others, 1828-1830 (folio 448 verso);...
Dates: 1825-1832.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of William Keir.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6583
Dates: 1820-1847.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal (one of a series) possibly of Margaret, 2nd wife of George Haldane of Gleneagles.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10411
Scope and Contents

Consists largely of religious reflections.

Dates: 1807-1815.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal, probably of C J Crawshaw, teacher at Lovedale Institution, South Africa.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7917
Dates: 1883-1887.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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