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Travel journals.

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Pocket-book of Augustus Charles Minchin, a graduate of Dublin University, containing accounts of walking tours in Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6335
Scope and Contents The material is somewhat confused, but appears to fall into four parts.(i) Trips from Glasgow to Paisley, Ayr and Mauchline, 16-19 August 1818, mostly concerned with information about Robert Burns (folios 1-3, 102-105).(ii) 'My Pocketbook'; possibly plans for a walking tour starting at Rothesay and ending at Edinburgh. A circuitous route involving places in the Lothians, Fife, Perthshire, Angus, Stirlingshire and Berwickshire is indicated; factual comments on these...
Dates: 1818.