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Travel journals.

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Found in 772 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of an Irish couple's Scottish tour, with illustrations and detailed accounts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12615
Scope and Contents

Journal describing a two month tour of Scotland by Frederick and Nannie. They begin their journey from Dublin in August 1849. They cross by boat from Derry to Greenock. Places visited include: Luss, Tarbet, Loch Tay, Crieff, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The journal is illustrated with pen sketches by Nannie.

Dates: 1849.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of an unknown Irish lady, travelling in Belgium and Switzerland., 1846.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6341
Scope and Contents

The record is apparently incomplete. Notes have been made at the end of the volume, probably by someone other than the writer of the journal (folio iii).

Dates: 1846.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journals of Alpine tours and other papers mostly connected with mountaineering, collected by Robert Wylie Lloyd, Alpinist.

Journal of Cecile F L Douglas, daughter of Sir Philip D Trotter, recording travels in England and on the Continent by her and her husband William Sholto Douglas, and other events, including the wedding of her brother Philip C Trotter., 1928.

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Identifier: MS.20305
Scope and Contents

Snapshots and postcards depicting places visited and people recorded in the narrative are pasted in at the appropriate places.

Dates: 1928.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of various members of the families of Trotter.

Journal of Cecilia Combe of an American tour., 1838-1840.

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Identifier: MS.7459
Scope and Contents From the Series:

MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.

The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.

The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.

Dates: 1838-1840.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household. / Miscellaneous personal papers, lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe; and papers of Cecilia Combe.

Journal of Charles Abbot of a tour of Scotland., 1827.

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Identifier: MS.9816
Scope and Contents Charles Abbot started on 11 July travelling through the Midlands to Llangollen, Liverpool and Carlisle. In Scotland he visited Hamilton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, and Inverness, and arrived at Dunrobin on 7 August. After a journey to Ord of Caithness and a tour of Strathbrora he left Dunrobin on 13 August, travelling via Inverness, Inveraray (from where he made visits to Islay and Iona), Stirling, Edinburgh and the Borders, and arrived at Kidbrooke on 1 October. The narrative is followed by...
Dates: 1827.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journals of tours by Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1802 until his retirement in 1816, when he was created 1st Baron Colchester.

Journal of Charles Abbot of a visit to Paris and Brussels, September-October 1815., 1815.

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Identifier: MS.9815
Scope and Contents

Charles Abbot left London on 25 September for Paris, where he had conversations with the Earl of Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington. He left on 12 October for Brussels and having spent ten days in Belgium returned to his estate at Kidbrooke on 27 October. Notes of the stages on the various routes are written inside the original covers (now folios i verso and ii). The journal was written in a notebook which he later had bound in hard covers, the binder's blanks watermarked 1822.

Dates: 1815.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journals of tours by Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1802 until his retirement in 1816, when he was created 1st Baron Colchester.

Journal of Charles Murray of a trek from Johannesburg to Salisbury and into Mashonaland., 1891.

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Identifier: MS.27264
Scope and Contents

Charles Murray describes the rigours of travel, hunting for game, and some Boer and native customs. There are occasional mentions of raids by Matabeles and military clashes with the Portuguese. From Salisbury he travelled into the Mazowe area and prospected for gold. The later entries are very brief and the journal breaks off soon after he reached Umtali. It is followed (folio 23) by a revised version of parts of the journal.

Dates: 1891.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941). / Literary work and travel journals of Charles Murray. / Travel journals of Charles Murray.

Journal of Charles Murray's voyages from Aberdeen to London and Dartmouth to Cape Town., 1888-1889.

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Identifier: MS.27263
Scope and Contents

Charles Murray describes the other travellers, the activities on board, visits to Lisbon and Madeira, and the overland journey from Cape Town to Johannesburg.

Dates: 1888-1889.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941). / Literary work and travel journals of Charles Murray. / Travel journals of Charles Murray.

Journal of Dr Jacob Pattisson, President of the Royal Medical, Physical, and Speculative Societies in the University of Edinburgh, written during a tour of part of the Highlands, 1780.

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Identifier: MS.6322
Scope and Contents Beginning at Stirling, Jacob Pattisson travelled by Inveraray to Oban, stayed for some time at Torloisk, and returned to Edinburgh by Fort William, Inverness, Aberdeen, Stonehaven, and Perth. The journal appears to have been written originally as a series of letters to a 'Miss P.' in England, and to have been bound at a later date; various entries, 1840, 1866-1867, concerning Pattisson and some of his family have been added (folios i, iii, iv-v). At folio ii verso an engraving of Fingal's...
Dates: 1780.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Dr William Brown, describing a continental tour he made in that year., 1862.

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Identifier: MS.10365
Scope and Contents

William Brown's passport and other related material are pasted in at the back of the volume.

Dates: 1862.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.

Journal of Edward Ellice (died 1880) containing notes of his tour to Canada as private Secretary to the Earl of Durham and of part of his stay in Canada afterwards., 1838.

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Identifier: MS.15146
Scope and Contents

At the end (folio 1 inverted) are lists of crockery and other household items and other undated notes. The greater part of the journal is blank.

Dates: 1838.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / 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. / Journals, chiefly of Edward Ellice (died 1863) and his son Edward Ellice (died 1880). / Journals of Edward Ellice (died 1880).

Journal of Eliza Stuart Ellice containing logs of cruises chiefly off the West Coast of Scotland and the South Coast of England., 1868, 1872-1873, 1879.

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Identifier: MS.15151
Scope and Contents

The journal is illustrated with small pencil sketches and contains pressed flowers inserted into the leaves. A leaf is cut out between folios 21 and 22. Press cuttings formerly loosely enclosed in the volume at folios 21 and 85 are pasted in at folio 79.

Dates: 1868, 1872-1873, 1879.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / 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. / Journals, chiefly of Edward Ellice (died 1863) and his son Edward Ellice (died 1880).

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour in Germany, May-June 1866, with Miss Fraser., 1866.

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Identifier: MS.20185
Scope and Contents

Single leaves are torn out between folios 1 and 2, and after folio 42.

Dates: 1866.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour in Italy, November-December 1871, with Miss Fraser., 1871.

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Identifier: MS.20186
Dates: 1871.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour of Italy, February-April 1882, possibly the original of MS.20190., 1882.

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Identifier: MS.20191
Scope and Contents

A leaf is torn out after folio 67.

Dates: 1882.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad. / Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour to Italy, February-April 1882, and a possible intended fair copy of the journal.

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour of Switzerland and Italy, June-July 1873, with Mrs Rundle and Mrs Charles, written in the form of letters to her sisters Mary and Jane., 1873.

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Identifier: MS.20188
Scope and Contents

The text breaks of in mid-sentence at the end of folio 72.

Dates: 1873.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour to Italy, February-April 1882, and a possible intended fair copy of the journal., 1882.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20190-20191
Dates: 1882.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour to Spain and France, March-April 1872, with Robert and Mary E Haldane., 1872.

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Identifier: MS.20187
Dates: 1872.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a visit from Marseilles to, and rest at Algiers, October-December 1883., 1883.

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Identifier: MS.20192
Dates: 1883.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a visit to Italy via France, begun in February 1882, but with only the first four days recorded, the text breaking off in mid-sentence; possibly an intended fair copy of MS.20191., 1882.

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Identifier: MS.20190
Dates: 1882.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad. / Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of a tour to Italy, February-April 1882, and a possible intended fair copy of the journal.

Journal of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, possibly a fair copy, of a tour of Normandy, August-September 1877, made with her sister Jane C Burdon-Sanderson., 1877.

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Identifier: MS.20189
Scope and Contents

The journal contains several photographs, printed cards and pamphlets and press cuttings pasted in.

A leaf is cut out between folios 71 and 72.

Dates: 1877.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane. / Notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson consisting chiefly of journals of tours abroad.

Journal of George Combe of a continental tour., 1817.

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Identifier: MS.7404
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates: 1817.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household. / Notebooks and journals of George Combe. / Miscellaneous notebooks and journals of George Combe, containing material chiefly concerning phrenology and Combe’s tours overseas.

Journal of George Combe of a tour in Germany., 1837.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7412-7415
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates: 1837.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household. / Notebooks and journals of George Combe. / Miscellaneous notebooks and journals of George Combe, containing material chiefly concerning phrenology and Combe’s tours overseas.

Journal of George Combe of a tour in Germany., 1837.

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Identifier: MS.7412
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates: 1837.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household. / Notebooks and journals of George Combe. / Miscellaneous notebooks and journals of George Combe, containing material chiefly concerning phrenology and Combe’s tours overseas. / Journal of George Combe of a tour in Germany.

Journal of George Combe of a tour in Germany., 1837.

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Identifier: MS.7413
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates: 1837.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household. / Notebooks and journals of George Combe. / Miscellaneous notebooks and journals of George Combe, containing material chiefly concerning phrenology and Combe’s tours overseas. / Journal of George Combe of a tour in Germany.

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