Diaries.
Found in 583 Collections and/or Records:
Diary of Sir Alexander Grant, 1st Baronet.
Diary of Sir John Hill, RN, detailing his mission to Scotland in 1837 to relieve distress caused by the famine.
Includes letters of commission from the Government and other associated papers and correspondence; with a volume of typed transcripts.
Diary of Sir William Drummond, son of the poet, and successor to the Hawthornden estates.
The diary is fairly full for 1657, and contains references to William Drummond's visits to Edinburgh and the proclamation of the Lord Protector there; his meetings and journeys with the neighbouring lairds; visitors to Hawthornden; the death of his brother Ludovick; and the progress of his courtship. After 1657 and his marriage, the entries are mainly confined to transactions concerning the estates.
Diary of Stephen Lawson, a civil engineer from Edinburgh, during his work on the Konza to Magadi railway in Kenya, 1912, with summaries of his activities to April 1914.
Stephen Lawson's main interest was in game shooting, and the diary contains relatively little concerning the railway itself.
Diary of the Final Words of Grizel Nimmo.
Includes notes on her deterioration and administration of the sacrament.
Diary of the Honourable Elsie Cameron Corbett.
The diary contains descriptive daily entries on Corbett's social life around her family's estates in Ayrshire, Scotland and in Chelsea, London, and remarks on contemporary Liberal politics, including the progress of campaigns for women's suffrage. The volume also contains a large number of pasted-in snapshot photographs taken by Corbett and her family in Scotland, and cuttings from London theatre programmes and periodicals.
Diary of the South African campaign of 1900-1901 kept by Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Herbert George Sotheby of the 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The diary, though silent on the larger issues, is interesting for its first-hand accounts of the raids in which the battalion took part. A list of the battalion's officers and a drawing of Colonel Plumer (later Viscount Plumer) are also included.
Diary of the Very Reverend Ronald Selby Wright, as Radio Padre and Chaplain to the Forces.
With a typed transcript and commentary.
Diary of Thomas Kincaid.
The diary describes Kincaid’s life and medical studies in Edinburgh, and gives his thoughts on a number of topics, particularly golf, archery, music and reading. The pages for January-July 1688 are missing, and folio 83 should follow folio 65. The beginning and end are also missing.
Diary of Thomas Telford, the engineer, contained in “Simpson's gentleman's almanack and pocket journal” for 1833.
The entries, which cover the period 1 January 1833 to 2 January 1834, contain a brief and continuous factual record of Telford's professional business. There are numerous short references to engineering projects with which he was concerned, to letters written, and to persons met. Occasional personal references, to health or reading, also occur, and there are periodic notes of household and other personal expenses.
Diary of Una Cameron, mainly relating to climbing in the Alps.
Diary of Walter Scott, farmer at Nether Bonchester, Roxburghshire.
The entries date from Walter Scott's acquisition of the property in May 1730, where an account is given of the conditions of the transaction, and break off in March 1743. They consist of memoranda concerning the management of the farm, such as details of the hiring of labour and the sowing and harvesting of crops, transactions with other farmers, and miscellaneous accounts.
Diary of Westfield Market Garden at Cowpits, near Inveresk.
Diary of William A Lewis.
Concerning an expedition to North Greenland commanded by Donald Baxter MacMillan.
Diary of William Fullarton.
Including a visit to the field of Waterloo.
Diary of William Gavin.
Recording his campaigns in South Africa, South America, and the Peninsular War, with photocopy of printed transcript, 1921.
Diary of William H Dease.
Covering a trainee period at the farm of Hallyards, Kirkliston.
Diary, sermons and notes of a minister in British Guiana.
Diary, two letters and typescript reminiscences of Sergeant Harry Hawthorne, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Digital archive of literary and personal papers of Christopher Whyte.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
"Edinburgh Almanack" (1766), with manuscript diary and notes of James Camichael.
Edited version of Persian diaries of Eric M Norris.
Includes a photographic supplement.