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 2688 Collections and/or Records:
Transcripts of Andrew Symson’s ‘Large Account of Galloway’ and other notices of the southern counties of Scotland., [1817, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.1577
Scope and Contents
Also contains a transcript of John Nicoll's diary for 1659, from Adv.MS.33.4.1 (folio 143).
Dates:
[1817, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
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Manuscripts chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Transcripts of Andrew Symson’s ‘Large Account of Galloway’ and other notices of the southern counties of Scotland, all from manuscripts of Sir Robert Sibbald, Walter Macfarlane and others in the Advocates’ Library (Adv.MSS. 33.5.15, 35.3.12, 31.7.17).
Travel diary of William Summers Sutherland., 1918.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13268/4
Scope and Contents
Travel diary of a visit made by William Summers Sutherland, accompanied by his wife Annabella and daughter, Marion, from Kalimpong to Kupup and Jelap La, India, May 1918.
Dates:
1918.
Travel journal, diary and private cashbook of Edward Ellice (died 1863)., 1824-1841.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15140-15142
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Dates:
1824-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Journals, chiefly of Edward Ellice (died 1863) and his son Edward Ellice (died 1880).
Travel journal of Emily Jackson describing her tour of the Eastern United States and Canada., 1884.
Item
Identifier: MS.23625
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Narrative of the journey of Emily Jackson through the Eastern United States and Canada, with her sister Ina Jackson. They left Glasgow on 29 August sailed around the north coast of Ireland on 30 August and arrived in New York on 9 September. The Jacksons journeyed through Saratoga, Lake George, and Lacine Rapids (Montreal) and arrived in Toronto on 21 September. They visited Niagara Falls and returned to America moving through Buffalo, Chicago, Minneapolis, St Paul, Pittsburgh, Washington...
Dates:
1884.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.
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Travel journals of Emily and Ina Jackson describing their tour of the Eastern United States and Canada.
Travel journal of Ina Jackson describing her tour of the Eastern United States and Canada., 1884
Item
Identifier: MS.23626
Scope and Contents
Ina`s narrative ends on 29th September 1884. She indicates there is a second volume, but this is not in the collections of the National Library of Scotland. The location of the second volume is unknown.
Dates:
1884
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.
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Travel journals of Emily and Ina Jackson describing their tour of the Eastern United States and Canada.
Travel journals and diary of Joan Glassel and by Will Glassel., 1785, 1818, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8508/39-41
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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:
1785, 1818, undated.
Travel journals and letters of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane., 1874-1889.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20193-20194
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1874-1889.
Travel journals of Emily and Ina Jackson describing their tour of the Eastern United States and Canada., 1884.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23625-23626
Scope and Contents
Narrative of the journey of Emily Jackson through the Eastern United States and Canada, with her sister Ina Jackson. They left Glasgow on 29 August sailed around the north coast of Ireland on 30 August and arrived in New York on 9 September. The Jacksons journeyed through Saratoga, Lake George, and Lacine Rapids (Montreal) and arrived in Toronto on 21 September. They visited Niagara Falls and returned to America moving through Buffalo, Chicago, Minneapolis, St Paul, Pittsburgh, Washington...
Dates:
1884.
Two letters, 1893, of William Anderson to his colleague Hugh Goldie; fragments of his journal, 1889; copy of letters, 1841, of Mrs Margaret Cowan, Jamaica, to his aunt; and copies of poems., 1841-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.8943
Two manuscripts concerning hostilities between England and Spain., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5739
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'A Dialogue Discourse betweene a Marchant Venturer and a Sea Captaine of the Sea fight between the Navies of England and Spayne ... 1588 ... where-unto is added a sumarie relation of all the commanders, shipps, forces, munitions, and provisions, that were in the same Spanish Fleete ... the which catalogue was taken out a Spanish coppie found in the shipp of Don Pedro de Vaides ... Written by Sir Arthur Gorges Knight'. There is some discussion of...
Dates:
17th century.
Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934
letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell
verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.
Dates:
1934-1964 and undated.
Typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journey to India., 1886, 1888-1889.
File
Identifier: MS.20668
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of:
(i) A copy of part of the diary, covering the period 18 March to 1 April 1886, of the earlier journey (folio 1);
(ii) A complete copy of the diary of the later journey (folio 21);
(iii) Some watercolour sketches made in India (folio 181 verso). The typed copy of the later journey was made in 1889 or 1890 for Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, whose signature dated May 1890 is at MS.20669, folio i. No doubt she was responsible for pasting in Jane's watercolour...
Dates:
1886, 1888-1889.
Typed transcript of the diary of John Smith., 1812-1854.
Item
Identifier: MS.8499A
Typescipt and manuscript journals of William Bell, Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4865/1-34
Dates:
1907-1967.
Typescript, 1932, of 'Four good years': excerpts from Violet Jacob's letters to her mother, 1895-1896, and copies of her diaries, 1897-1900., 1895-1900.
Item
Identifier: MS.27414
Scope and Contents
The typescript was published as 'Diaries and letters from India, 1895-1900', edited by Carol Anderson, (Edinburgh, 1990).
Dates:
1895-1900.
Typescript and manuscript war diary of the Reverend David Cairns, padre with 131 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; with associated military maps, and a paper on the state of the reformed churches in Germany.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5932/1-8
Dates:
1943-1945.
Typescript carbon copy of diary of South African War of James Bowstead Craik, as private in 19th Company, Imperial Yeomanry.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7803
Dates:
1901-1902.
Typescript copy of an incomplete diary of Charles McKelvie, Isca, near Campbeltown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6937
Scope and Contents
Describing journey on S S Dunedin, with his sister, as an emigrant to Port Chalmers, New Zealand.
Dates:
1879.
Typescript copy of diary of Captain D P Apthorp, Royal Norfolk Regiment.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9676
Scope and Contents
Concerns time as prisoner of war of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Dates:
1942-1945.
Typescript copy of journals kept by John Borland, emigrant to the USA.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14314
Scope and Contents
The typescript, compiled by Borland's granddaughter Chloe Kearns, comprises a copy of Borland's reminiscences about his early life in Scotland and the lives of his children, apparently written on or after June 1882, and a copy of Borland's journal of his passage from Stewarton, East Ayrshire, to the United States of America, followed by a trip up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis, in 1843. With photographs of John Borland and his wife Mary Borland, née Jamison, and...
Dates:
1843, 1882
Typescript copy of the journal of Alexander Mactier Pirrie., 1906-1907.
Item
Identifier: MS.9844
Scope and Contents
Alexander Pirrie writes of daily incidents occurring on his two expeditions from Khartoum. The first was up the Nile to the southern regions of Sudan and Bahr-el-Ghazal in November 1906. The second was into the borders of Abyssinia in the early months of 1907. The route of the latter expedition is illustrated by a map (MS.9845) made by the Survey Office in Khartoum after Pirrie's return. The journal is brief and is generally confined to factual accounts of Pirrie's own experiences, such as...
Dates:
1906-1907.
Typescript copy of the journal of Alexander Mactier Pirrie (1882-1907), Carnegie Research Fellow in Anthropology at Khartoum, with a sketch-map.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9844-9845
Dates:
1906-1907.
Typescript diary of a cruise from Leith to North Cape, Norway, with photographs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7087
Dates:
1927.