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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 583 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of the family of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8508/1-57
Scope and Contents

Papers, 19th-20th century, relating to the family of the 7th and 8th Dukes of Argyll especially the circle of Joan Glassel, second wife of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, and her children and grandchildren.

Dates: 1778-1942.

Correspondence, reports, lectures and other professional papers of James R Erskine-Murray, electrical engineer and inventor; with some notebooks, diaries and other papers of members of his family.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5900/1-76
Scope and Contents

Including lecture notebooks, copies of lectures and reports, and drafts of articles.

Dates: 1745-1961.

Correspondence, speeches, diaries, photographs and papers of Alastair Trevor Clark, mostly relating to his work as a civil servant in Nigeria, Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12598/1-56
Scope and Contents

The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.

Dates: [1923]-2005, undated.

Diaries, 1832-1865, chiefly of Colonel James Halkett (1822-1870), Coldstream Guards, son of Hugh, Baron von Halkett, describing his service in Britain, Mauritius, India and the Crimea; with correspondence and related material, 1847-1863, concerning several other members of the Halkett family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14200-14219
Scope and Contents

James Halkett was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Mauritius, Sir William Gomm, from 1842 to 1847, and to the Commander-in-Chief of India from 1850 to 1854. He was severely wounded in action in November 1854 and the diary for that year gives particular accounts of the battles he witnessed during the Crimean War.

Dates: 1832-1865, undated.

Diaries, 1858-1865, of John Dalziel, Writer to the Signet.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9585
Scope and Contents

With letter, 1902, of Cora Scott-Moncrieff to Ethel Dalziel concerning Sir Joseph Nöel Paton, and genealogical table, undated, of the Hanna and Dalziel families.

Dates: 1858-1902 and undated.

Diaries and biographical memoranda of Archibald Palmer Douglas of Cavers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8883
Scope and Contents

Includes accounts of visits to Canada, 1905-1906, and New Zealand, 1906.

Dates: 1880-1947.

Diaries and correspondence of David Morrison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6374
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn and Fionn MacColla.

Dates: 1966-1974.

Diaries and Golf Match Record Books of Frederick Guthrie Tait.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13048
Scope and Contents Golf Match Record Books and diaries, 1886-1900, of Frederick Guthrie Tait (1870-1900). Freddie Tait was one of the most important amateur golfers of the late Victorian era. His father, Peter Guthrie Tait, Professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University, was also a keen golfer. Freddie and his siblings learnt to play golf on the links at St Andrews and Musselburgh from an early age. Later, father and son carried out scientific experiments on the flight of a golf ball. Freddie Tait...
Dates: 1886-1900.

Diaries and notebooks, 1823-1850, of Sir George Campbell of Edenwood and travel journals and diaries, 1859-1891, of his son, also Sir George Campbell of Edenwood.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7657
Scope and Contents

Including descriptions of a tour to China in 1866 and the United States in 1881-1882.

Dates: 1823-1891.

Diaries and notebooks of John Cockburn Ross of Shandwick and Rowchester and of his wife, Jane Ross of Shandwick.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20481-20482
Scope and Contents

The volumes provide a detailed account of everyday life at the family's various residences including Rowchester, Shandwick, Thorpe Arch, Scarborough, Chelsea, Woodville near Dalkeith, Sharpitlaw, and Marchmont House, Berwickshire.

Dates: 1793-1825.

Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.

Diaries and notebooks of Seton Gordon.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10166
Dates: 1971-1975 and undated.

Diaries and other papers of W M Docharty.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6334/1-28
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1929-1968.

Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11021/1-223
Scope and Contents Correspondence, accounts, diaries, and miscellaneous papers, 1861-1993, largely of and relating to Barberfield Farm, near Haddington, East Lothian. With personal correspondence, accounts, and photographs of Charles Blythe, Farmer, and his family, 1861-1993.Charles Blythe became tenant of Barberfield Farm in 1904 in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Millar, Draper, Tranent. In 1928, Blythe took on the lease of the neighbouring Heatheryhall Farm. Previously, he had been...
Dates: 1859-1993.

Diaries, letters and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1989, of and relating to John Armstrong.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13315
Scope and Contents

John Armstrong studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was a contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi who is mentioned in his diaries. After leaving college he worked as an artist and displays manager, then went on to work for the DHSS, Register Generals Office and elsewhere in Edinburgh. He later ran his own business. He continued painting throughout his life and also wrote fiction inspired by his bohemian lifestyle.

Dates: 1944-1989.