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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 352 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous notes and other papers, including a business journal of John Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates' Library., 1658-1712, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2937
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Notes of a Presbyterian, 1658-1661, recording his own affairs and some public events (folio 1);(ii) Proposals of John Spottiswoode for study, miscellaneous notes, etc., similar to those in MS.2934, 1705-1707, undated (folios 3, 30, 56);(iii) Business journal of Spottiswoode, in French, recording consultations, fees, private expenditure, etc., 1707-1708 (folio 8);(iv) Lists of law-students, 1703, 1710-1712,...
Dates: 1658-1712, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of the Johnston family., Late 18th-early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5811/11-21
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.

Dates: Late 18th-early 20th century.

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.

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.