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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:

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Diaries of Bessie Stone and her sister.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6800
Scope and Contents

With notebook containing an anonymous translation of the first part of Alphonse Daudet, "Le Petit Chose".

Dates: 1903-1904, 1907.

Diaries of Edward R Zenthon, surveyor, of camping, hiking and climbing expeditions.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13576/1-4
Scope and Contents Diaries, 1937-1947, of Edward R Zenthon, surveyor (1920-2012), of camping, hiking and climbing expeditions in Scotland, England, Wales, South Africa, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Italy.The diaries are illustrated with numerous skilful drawings and sketch maps together with photographs, postcards, maps and cartoons. In addition to diary entries, there are several lists including mountains climbed, personal climbing equipment, books owned and a glossary of mountaineering terms....
Dates: 1937-1947.

Diaries of Henry Alexander Robertson, Chancellor of Newton.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.17.2.5-17.2.45
Scope and Contents

The daily entries are brief, giving details of the weather and of Henry Alexander Robertson`s personal activities.

Dates: 1857-1915.

Diaries of James Rannie Swinton and the Swinton family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13686/1-141
Scope and Contents Diaries, 1838-1939, of James Rannie Swinton, artist, his wife Blanche Arthur Georgina Swinton, née Fitzgerald de Ros, and his nieces, Katherine Margaret Campbell Swinton and Alice Susan Lucy Campbell Swinton, daughters of Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmeringhame, author.James Rannie Swinton was the younger son of John Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, Berwickshire. He studied art at Edinburgh`s Trustee`s Academy before moving to London in 1840 and enrolling at the Royal Academy...
Dates: 1838-1939.

Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21072-21096
Scope and Contents

John Chisholm, from Perth, studied at Edinburgh and Leipzig, and was admitted advocate in 1881. He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative at the elections of 1885 and 1892. He took silk in 1904 and was appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1905. He married in 1892, and died in 1929.

Dates: 1877-1928.

Diaries of John McCurdy covering the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, with edited transcript entitled 'Our Beautiful Campaign'.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14388
Scope and Contents The diaries cover the period between 18 September 2013 and 22 March 2015, and contain thoughtful and detailed descriptions of the pro-Independence campaigning activities of John McCurdy and his partner Joan Skinner, including notes on canvassing and letter-writing for Yes Scotland; notes on public meetings including those of the Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group, Radical Independence Campaign, and Women for Independence; reports on panel discussions, literary events, and political speeches...
Dates: Majority of material found within 2013-2015, 2022.

Diaries of Joseph Macleod, pseudonym Adam Drinan.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13506/1-30
Scope and Contents

Thirty diaries of Joseph Macleod, who wrote under the pseudonym Adam Drinan. Though none of the volumes could be described as journals, they are more substantial than simple appointment diaries and there are sequences of journal-type entries throughout the series. This collection fills many gaps of the run of diaries at Acc.10509/7-15.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1918-1954, 1979.

Diaries of Major James Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13723
Scope and Contents

Diaries, 1945-1946, 1959-1968, and 1992-2014, of Major James Scott. Also includes a volume containing certificates relating to the naval career of Henry C. C. Clarke, and other documents relating to the Clarke family, c.1900-1930s.

Dates: 1945-2014

Diaries of Major William Baird Young of Ascreavie House, Kirriemuir, Royal Artillery

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13415
Scope and Contents William Baird Young succeeded to the estate of Ascreavie in 1871 on the death of his mother, James Catherine, wife of Lieutenant Colonel Keith Young, née Ogilvy.The diaries relate largely to William Baird Young’s daily life. There is much detail of domestic affairs and the family’s social activities in Ascreavie and Edinburgh but also when with his regiment in Brighton, Clifton, Exeter and elsewhere. Acc.13415/3 includes an account of a visit to Chaudfontaine in Belgium....
Dates: 1851-1881

Diaries of Margaret Mackenzie Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5385
Scope and Contents

Concerning her personal experiences during the siege of Budapest (with typed transcript of these years) and at home after the War.

Dates: 1940-1966.

Diaries of Nancy Angus, with some related personal papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12365/1-41
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the diaries of Nancy W Angus, the daughter of David Angus, civil engineer. They give a view first of an adolescent’s life in Chile, then of a typist’s in London, then of a Voluntary Aid Detachment, and on through her work for the War Graves Commission, and then at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Dates: 1907-1960.

Diaries of Sir Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1685-1691
Scope and Contents These diaries, which were regarded by their author as of no value whatsoever, were preserved by his desire merely that his descendants might know something of the thoughts and feelings of one of their predecessors. They do not form a daily record, but consist of random reflections on current events, and a great many biographical and genealogical descriptions of families and individuals of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, chiefly in MS.1686, which has at the end a rough index of the persons...
Dates: 1824-1839.

Diaries of the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14144/1-20
Scope and Contents

Journals with descriptive entries on home, foreign affairs, and travels including to the United States, Europe, and the Ottoman Empire. With remarks on political events concerning Lord John Russell, the Aberdeen Ministry, and Lord Salisbury.

Dates: 1847-1901.

Diaries of Una Cameron.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10384
Scope and Contents

Concern climbing in the Alps, East Africa and Canada.

Dates: 1931-1939.

Diaries of Walter Robertson Cuthbert.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11914
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters to Cuthbert from his mother and two photographs from World War I.

Dates: 1912-1932.