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 431 Collections and/or Records:
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland., 1846-1936.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7638-8011
Scope and Contents
The United Free Church of Scotland was formed from the union of the United Presbyterian Church with the Free Church of Scotland in 1900. In 1919 the United Free Church took over the Gold Coast mission of the Basler Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft.
Dates:
1846-1936.
Foreign mission records of the United Presbyterian Church (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland)., 1846-1936.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7638-7744
Scope and Contents
The United Presbyterian Church, formed in 1847 by the union of the United Secession and Relief Churches, inherited from its Secession part missions in the West Indies (see also MS.8020) and in Calabar, Nigeria; soon after the union it took over the work in Jamaica of the Scottish Missionary Society (see MSS.8014, 8984-5) and that in Kaffraria of the Glasgow South African Missionary Society. Missions were later established in Rajputana (1860), Manchuria (1872), and Japan (1873). In addition...
Dates:
1846-1936.
Fragments of the journal kept by Sir John Erskine, 3rd Baronet, of Alva, when sent to France by the Old Pretender and the Earl of Mar, 1716; and part of a narrative describing the Old Pretender's attempt to regain his throne in 1715, and giving reasons for his failure., 1715-1716.
File
Identifier: MS.5116
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
1715-1716.
General Journal of the Darien Company., 1696-1707.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.83.2.5-83.2.6
General Journal of the Darien Company., 1696-1700.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.83.2.5
General Journal of the Darien Company., 1700-1707.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.83.2.6
Household account book of the Women's Missionary College, Edinburgh., 1894-1908.
Item
Identifier: MS.8008
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The college was founded in 1894.
Dates:
1894-1908.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland.
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Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland).
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Papers of the Women’s Foreign Missions of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Letters to the secretary of the Women's Foreign Missions of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Records of the Women's Missionary College, Edinburgh.
Illustrated log books of the yachts ‘Norma’ and ‘Coquette’, of cruises off the West Coast of Scotland, and also to Brittany and the Channel Islands. Both yachts were owned by Sir Thomas Newnham Deane (1828-1899), an Irish architect. The logs were probably written by his friend, Joseph Manley Todd. They are illustrated with delightful, often humorous, pen and wash drawings by Deane of the party and places they visited.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13216
Dates:
1868-1880.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Journal, accounts and weather reports of Bandawe and Kanininga Mission Stations, in various hands., November 1878-November 1879.
File
Identifier: MS.7910
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Livingstonia Mission was founded in 1875 and directed for more than fifty years by the Reverend Dr Robert Laws.
Dates:
November 1878-November 1879.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland.
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Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland).
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Correspondence and papers concerning the Livingstonia Mission of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Journals of Livingstonia Mission Stations of the Free Church of Scotland.
Journal and account book of Mrs Burton-Sayers` work party.
File
Identifier: Acc.11999
Dates:
1940-1941.
Journal and Ledger of Committee of Improvements of the Darien Company., 1696-1700.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.83.4.4-83.4.5
Journal and Ledger, probably of Glasgow Directors, of the Darien Company., 1699.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.83.4.2-83.4.3
Journal and scrapbook of John Francis Campbell combined, kept mainly during his visit to Paris at the time of the Siege in 1871, and while travelling round the west coast of Scotland which is described in letters to his family in August and September 1871., 1870-1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.6
Scope and Contents
Other items of interest in the volume include material regarding the marriage of Lord Lorne and Princess Louise on 21 March 1871, and on traction engines.
There are two printed pamphlets by Campbell, ‘On Current British Mythology and Oral Traditions’ and ‘Notes on Glacial Phenomena of the Hebrides’.
Dates:
1870-1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Journal and scrapbook of John Francis Campbell in which he mainly describes his travels in Ireland from July to October 1872., 1872.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.7
Scope and Contents
The journal is illustrated with watercolour and pencil sketches, photographs and rock-rubbings. Throughout, Campbell stresses the geological aspects of the places visited, particularly with regard to glaciation, and at the end of the volume his printed pamphlet ‘On the Glaciation of Ireland’ is inserted. There are also several letters to Campbell from various correspondents, 1872, and at the beginning of the volume several press cuttings relating to Gaelic literature and the Ossianic...
Dates:
1872.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Journal and sketchbook of John Francis Campbell recording his travels and interests., 1879-1880.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.6
Scope and Contents
The volume falls roughly into two sections:(i) Experiments in and notes on Thermography, a subject in which Campbell became increasingly interested towards the end of his life.As a result of his experiments with the sun`s rays, he published several pamphlets, two of which are included in this volume:‘Time Scales Horizontal and Vertical’ (folio 169) and “Campbell`s Registering Sun-Dial” (folio 152). There are also notes, diagrams and cuttings relating to...
Dates:
1879-1880.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Journal and weather reports of Cape Maclear Mission Station by the Reverend Dr Robert Laws., July 1875-July 1876.
File
Identifier: MS.7907
Scope and Contents
The journal is in a copy of "Lett's Perpetual Diary". It begins on 23 July 1875, goes on to 31 December 1875, and then returns to the beginning of the volume, from 1 January to 22 July 1876.
Dates:
July 1875-July 1876.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland.
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Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland).
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Correspondence and papers concerning the Livingstonia Mission of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Journals of Livingstonia Mission Stations of the Free Church of Scotland.
Journal and weather reports of Cape Maclear Mission Station by the Reverend Dr Robert Laws., July 1875-1877.
File
Identifier: MS.7908
Scope and Contents
The journal is a slightly revised version of MS.7907, in chronological sequence, with the meteorological reports for 1876 (given under each day in MS.7907) collected on folios 60-62. At the end is added a meteorological and medical report for 1877.
Dates:
July 1875-1877.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland.
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Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland).
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Correspondence and papers concerning the Livingstonia Mission of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Journals of Livingstonia Mission Stations of the Free Church of Scotland.
'Journal book of Francis Ronaldson Surveyor to the General Post Office Edinburgh.'
Item
Identifier: MS.10687
Scope and Contents
Francis Ronaldson was appointed Assistant Surveyor in 1786 and General Surveyor in 1789. His journal book records his many journeys throughout Scotland, inspecting and establishing post offices, investigating complaints, instructing postmasters, and making surveys for the extension of the mail coach services. It also includes his quarterly accounts of expenditure on these journeys. A watercolour caricature of Ronaldson and some biographical notes on him taken from John Kay, ‘A series of...
Dates:
1786-1814.
Journal concerning hunting, shooting and fishing expeditions in Scotland, England and Wales.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10562
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Dates:
1911-1925.
Journal, entitled "Nine Months in Scotland, 1795-96" written by James Shaw, son of Andrew Shaw, Professor of Divinity at St. Mary`s College, St. Andrews and nephew of Professor Hugh Blair.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.15
Scope and Contents
Shaw begins and concludes his stay in Scotland as a guest of Professor Blair in Edinburgh and provides an interesting account of his uncle`s character and activities. Shaw also records his visits to James Townsend Oswald, son of the Right Honourable James Oswald of Dunnikier, the politician, to whom he had formerly been tutor and companion, and to the village of Craigie where his brother Andrew was minister.His personal recollections of friends and relations are interspersed with...
Dates:
1795-1796.
Journal for Cash Ledger of the Darien Company., 1696-1707.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.83.3.8
Journal for General Trading Ledger of the Darien Company., 1696-1701.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.83.3.3
Journal for General Trading Ledger of the Darien Company; with draft and notes., 1696-1701.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.83.3.2-83.3.4