Travel journals.
Found in 772 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).
George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of John Rennie and his family., [Circa 1770]-1936, undated.
Papers of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre., 1517-1934, undated.
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
Papers relating to military service and commands of Sir William Stewart in Britain, Europe and the Caribbean., 1789-1826.
Acc.9074/1-61 consist of 61 bound volumes entitled 'The Cumloden Papers'.
'Peninsular Scenery' by George Lewis Augustus Douglas., 1819.
The manuscript is a further revision of the journals at MSS.10357-10360, condensed into one volume and illustrated with engravings and pen and ink sketches. The engravings appear to be a later state of the plates than in the previous version. Paper watermarked 1819.
"Penson's short progress into Holland, Flanders, and France, with remarques, written by Thomas Penson, Anno Domini 1690", and account of a tour made in the second half of 1687.
Personal papers of James Johnston., 1939-2006
Personal papers of Neil Munro., 1887-1963, undated.
Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.
Photocopies of items of David Livingstone belonging to his grandson Dr H F Wilson.
Photocopies of papers of George Borrow, and photocopies and press cuttings of related material., 1812-2001, undated.
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Photocopy of a journal of a tour in Sutherland, 1955, of David Cairns; with a photocopy of an address of David Cairns, 1969, to the Aberdeen Branch of the Saltire Society, entitled 'Annals of a Sutherland parish".
Photocopy of a journal of David Livingstone, containing also copies of official dispatches and other letters of Livingstone, 1861-1863, and (loosely enclosed) an original letter to Sir Thomas Maclear, 1860., 1860-1863.
The material was not used in ‘The Zambezi expedition of David Livingstone’, edited by P Wallis (London, 1956).
Photocopy of a typed version of a journal kept by Agnes Paterson, wife of Andrew Paterson, a merchant sea-captain in the service of Jardine and Mathieson, the oriental trading company.
Photocopy of journal, September-November 1860, of David Livingstone., 1860.
The volume was not used for ‘The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone’, edited by P R Wallis (London, 1956), which gives no journal for this period.
Photocopy of observations taken on the River Shire and Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi), August-November 1861, by David Livingstone., 1861.
The volume was sent by David Livingstone to Sir Thomas Maclear at Cape Town and received by him on 26 April 1862 (folio 2).
Photocopy, with transcription, of journal of Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech, describing a tour through the Scottish Highlands.
Photographic negative of pages 93-94 of David Livingstone's Zambezi Journal A2., 1858-1859.
Pocket-book of Augustus Charles Minchin, a graduate of Dublin University, containing accounts of walking tours in Scotland.
Pocket notebook of William Bremner, father of Bruce Allan Bremner., 1827.
The pocket notebook includes notes on conditions in Dominica and a diary for 1827 in which he recounts a voyage from Dominica to Portsmouth (folios 10-14).
Printed geological work, and a journal of Leonard Horner., 1859, 1862.
The contents are as follows.
(i) John Morris, 'British Fossils, stratigraphically arranged' (printed) (folio 1), with a manuscript note by Leonard Horner, 18S9 (folio 4 verso).
(ii) 'Journal which I kept of our journey from London to Florence and our stay there, from 17 Sepr 1861 to May 1862', by Leonard Horner. Extracts are given by Mary Lyell in her ‘Memoir of Leonard Horner’ ([privately printed], London, 1890), volume ii, pages 307, and what follows. (Folio 5.)
Private journal kept by William Stuart Walker, about the age of 10, on the ‘Repulse’., 1823.
Whilst at St Helena, Alexander Walker busied himself in promoting the agricultural potential of the island and in tackling the question of slavery.