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Journals. Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books containing accounts of an individual's or organization's occurrences or transactions, including records of financial transactions.

Found in 432 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook containing 'Journal commencing from the surrender of Quebec, 1759' by James Murray., 1759-1760.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4853
Scope and Contents

The journal covers the period 18 September 1759, to 9 September 1760.

At the end of the notebook are 'Copies of some papers which passed between General Wolfe and the brigadiers' (namely, Robert Monckton, George Townsend, and James Murray), dated August and September 1759.

Dates: 1759-1760.

Notebook of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.17
Scope and Contents (i) Note of decisions (folio 1).(ii) Note of expenses (folio 1 verso).(iii) Note of expenses in London, 1667 (Crawford, page 180) (folio 2).(iv) Note of expenses (folio 3).(v) Journal of travels in England and Scotland, 1667-1670 (Crawford, pages 167-204, omitting folios 39-40) (folios 4-46).(vi) Observations on Public Affairs, 1669-1670 (Crawford, pages 228-236) (folios 46-34).(vii) Accounts, 1670-1671 (Crawford, pages...
Dates: 1667-1676.

Notebooks and diaries of David Thomson, containing some journal, research material, aide-memoire, passages of particular works, press cuttings and other related papers., 1941-1987, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13259/40-56
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 1941-1987, undated.

Notebooks of General Sir George Murray containing his account of a journey from Dublin to Johnstown made in the summer of 1805., 1805.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.7-46.1.11
Scope and Contents

Of the 5 volumes, only the first entry in the first volume is dated, June 29. There is a gap in the narrative between Adv.MSS.46.1.10 and 46.1.11, caused by the loss of one (or more) of the notebooks.

Dates: 1805.

Notes and a journal of Alexander Murray concerning the Douglas Cause.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.21
Scope and Contents

Notes, dated 30 November 1762, on the Douglas Cause by Alexander Murray (afterwards Lord Henderland, Senator of the College of Justice) (folio 1), and journal, December 1762-February 1763, of his visit to Paris in connexion with it (folio 1 inverted).

Dates: 1762-1763.

Original manuscript of ‘My Circular Notes’ by John Francis Campbell, describing a world tour he made from July 1874 to July 1875., 1875-1876.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.11-50.5.12
Scope and Contents In Adv.MS.50.5.11, the account of Campbell’s visit to America is excluded. It begins at what corresponds to page 159 of the printed version, in the middle of a letter `To a Scientific travelling Chum, From the Antipodes`, but apart from a few other minor discrepancies the manuscript and printed versions correspond.The text of ‘My Circular Notes’ consists of a combination of the author`s journal and letters to his family, particularly his step-mother, 1874-1875. The letters in the...
Dates: 1875-1876.

Original manuscript of ‘My Circular Notes’ by John Francis Campbell, describing a world tour he made from July 1874 to July 1875; volume I: 1874., 1875-1876.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: In Adv.MS.50.5.11, the account of Campbell’s visit to America is excluded. It begins at what corresponds to page 159 of the printed version, in the middle of a letter `To a Scientific travelling Chum, From the Antipodes`, but apart from a few other minor discrepancies the manuscript and printed versions correspond.The text of ‘My Circular Notes’ consists of a combination of the author`s journal and letters to his family, particularly his step-mother, 1874-1875. The letters in the...
Dates: 1875-1876.

Original manuscript of ‘My Circular Notes’ by John Francis Campbell, describing a world tour he made from July 1874 to July 1875; volume II: 1875., 1875-1876.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: In Adv.MS.50.5.11, the account of Campbell’s visit to America is excluded. It begins at what corresponds to page 159 of the printed version, in the middle of a letter `To a Scientific travelling Chum, From the Antipodes`, but apart from a few other minor discrepancies the manuscript and printed versions correspond.The text of ‘My Circular Notes’ consists of a combination of the author`s journal and letters to his family, particularly his step-mother, 1874-1875. The letters in the...
Dates: 1875-1876.

Papers concerning Gibraltar and mercantile affairs., 1724-1849.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15404-15416
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 1724-1849.

Papers, mostly of Marshall Anderson, from the Attic Archive, Dundee.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 1-Box 51(19)
Scope and Contents The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates: Circa 1980-2010.

Papers of General Sir George Murray relating to his service in Ireland, 1804-1807 and 1808, where he was appointed deputy quartermaster-general in 1804., 1779-1807.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.5-46.1.11
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: 1779-1807.