Travel journals.
Found in 772 Collections and/or Records:
Climbing journal of Peter Frederick Oliver of an expedition to the Baspa Valley, with line drawings of the mountains and route taken., April-May 1931.
Included are Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Oliver’s 'Everest' diaries for the 1936 and 1938 expeditions. The engagement diaries consist chiefly of brief factual entries while the climbing journals provide a detailed record of Oliver's mountaineering experiences.
Climbing journal of Peter Frederick Oliver of the Everest expedition, with diagrams., May-June 1936.
Included are Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Oliver’s 'Everest' diaries for the 1936 and 1938 expeditions. The engagement diaries consist chiefly of brief factual entries while the climbing journals provide a detailed record of Oliver's mountaineering experiences.
Climbing journal of Peter Frederick Oliver’s first expedition to the Baspa Valley in the Kunmaon Himalayas., April-June 1929.
The journal contains a record of provisions taken on the expedition (inverted folios 1-7).
Climbing journals and engagement diaries of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Oliver., 1928-1944.
Included are Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Oliver’s 'Everest' diaries for the 1936 and 1938 expeditions. The engagement diaries consist chiefly of brief factual entries while the climbing journals provide a detailed record of Oliver's mountaineering experiences.
Climbing journals of Peter Hodgkiss for climbs in Scotland, England and Europe., 1965-2008, undated.
Some of the journals include lists of peaks climbed and their heights. Some also include details of family holidays.
Collection of papers of the Warden family.
The collection comprises correspondence of the Warden family, with transcripts of most of the correspondence, a travel journal written by Alexander Warden and a publication, 'Letters from St. Helena' (1816), by William Warden.
Commonplace-book kept by Lady Cochrane (wife of Sir Thomas) at sea in H.M.S. 'Surprize', containing remarks on William Shakespeare's plays and Sir Walter Scott's ‘Rokeby’, and an account of their voyage to Barbados., 1813.
Contemporary copy of 'Observations in a Tour to Portugal and Spain by Thos. [i.e. John], Earl of Strathmore & John Pitt, Esqr., 1760’., 1760.
With six folding architectural drawings.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George L A Douglas. Volume I: France., 1819.
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George L A Douglas. Volume II: Spain., 1819.
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George L A Douglas. Volume III: Spain., 1819.
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George L A Douglas. Volume IV: Portugal., 1819.
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George Lewis Augustus Douglas., 1819.
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
'Continuation of notes of a visit to Venice, May 1877', by Ann Parminter Pringle, née Black., 1877.
Copies of journals of the tours made by James Robertson in 1767 and 1771 in the service of the Commissioners on the Forfeited Estates.
Copy, ?1825, written by William Milton, of a journal, 1823, of a tour in Western Scotland by four members of the Bonar family and a friend., 1823.
The journal describes in a humorous style their travels from Edinburgh to Glasgow, Mull, Ballachulish, the Trossachs and Blair Logie, with lengthy descriptions of places visited such as New Lanark and Hamilton Palace.
The paper is watermarked 1825.
Copy of a journal kept by Benjamin Heyne, assistant on the Mysore survey, during a journey from Madras to Bangalore., [1797, or after.]
The manuscript is undated, but the paper is watermarked 1797. Benjamin Heyne describes the country through which he passed, with lengthy comments on its geology and agriculture, and on the religious and other customs of the people.
‘Copy of a journal of a route through Kattywar’ kept by Lieutenant Edmund Hardy of the Bombay Artillery as a military surveyor, 29 January 1810., 1810.
This copy was forwarded by Alexander Walker to Jonathan Duncan on 31 January 1810 and was evidently intended for transcription or possibly publication.
Copy of Colonel George Croghan's journal of his journey down the Ohio, 1765, sent to Principal William Robertson by Samuel Wharton., 1771.
Copy of "Richards's universal daily Remembrancer" for 1826 containing entries for almost all the days of the year., 1826.
The compiler who is unidentified appears to have been resident in Rome, travelling overland to England and returning by sea.
A small quantity of papers formerly pinned to some of the leaves have been bound in at the back of the volume.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Charles Dalrymple, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran., 1816-1857, undated.
Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson (1800-1849), was the eldest son of Sir James Fergusson, 4th Baronet of Kilkerran, and Jean, second daughter of Lord Hailes. He inherited Newhailes in 1838 on the death of his aunt, Christian Dalrymple, when he assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple. Sir Charles was admitted Advocate in 1822, and in 1829 married Helen, daughter of David Boyle of Shewalton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Correspondence and papers of John Thomson, Professor of General Pathology at Edinburgh, and of his sons William, Professor of Medicine at Glasgow, and Allen, the biologist.
Much of the collection is of medical interest, but it also includes correspondence on family matters.
Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.