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Alexander Carlyle's daily diaries contain very brief entries. There are some journals of private tours in Scotland (MSS.23766-23767, 23771) and of activities in London, both on official business and private affairs (MSS.23768-23769, 23774). Some contain notes of expenses and other accounts.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...

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The diary makes particular mention of American gold miners returning home from California.

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The diary also includes notes on various unrelated subjects and a fragment of a journal kept in Jamaica, possibly in 1843 (folio 22). A number of pages have been torn out.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...

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Alexander J Adie travelled through Galloway to Belfast and Dublin, then through North Wales, returning to Edinburgh through Newcastle. His journal describes the countryside and people, but his interest was primarily in bridges, mines, railways and other engineering works. There are detailed descriptions, with small sketches, of a descent in a diving bell (folio 19) and visits to a salt mine (folio 37) and iron works (folio 50).

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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).

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

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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.

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...

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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A leaf is torn out after folio 67.

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