Travel journals.
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Found in 581 Collections and/or Records:
Contemporary copy of 'Observations in a Tour to Portugal and Spain by Thos. [i.e. John], Earl of Strathmore & John Pitt, Esqr., 1760’., 1760.
Item
Identifier: MS.2758
Scope and Contents
With six folding architectural drawings.
Dates:
1760.
'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.
Item
Identifier: MS.10357
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
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'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.
'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.
Item
Identifier: MS.10358
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
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'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.
'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.
Item
Identifier: MS.10359
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
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'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.
'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.
Item
Identifier: MS.10360
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
/
'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.
'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.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10357-10360
Scope and Contents
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
'Continuation of notes of a visit to Venice, May 1877', by Ann Parminter Pringle, née Black., 1877.
Item
Identifier: MS.10468
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1877.
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.
Item
Identifier: MS.15999
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1823.
Copy of a journal kept by Benjamin Heyne, assistant on the Mysore survey, during a journey from Madras to Bangalore., [1797, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9496
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
[1797, or after.]
‘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.
Item
Identifier: MS.13714
Scope and Contents
This copy was forwarded by Alexander Walker to Jonathan Duncan on 31 January 1810 and was evidently intended for transcription or possibly publication.
Dates:
1810.
Copy of Colonel George Croghan's journal of his journey down the Ohio, 1765, sent to Principal William Robertson by Samuel Wharton., 1771.
Item
Identifier: MS.3959
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1771.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Copy of "Richards's universal daily Remembrancer" for 1826 containing entries for almost all the days of the year., 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.23228
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1826.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Charles Dalrymple, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran., 1816-1857, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25500-25530
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1816-1857, undated.
Correspondence, notebooks and journals of the Duke of Cleveland, the Earl of Rosebery's stepfather., 1840-1891, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10206-10216
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates:
1840-1891, undated.
Correspondence, together with some other writings, of John Leyden, collected by the Reverend James Morton., 1794-1811, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3380
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Original correspondence of John Leyden with his family and his friends in Scotland and in India, 1794-1811. The fragment of a journal of a tour in Cumberland in 1801 (folio 27) is printed by James Sinton in 'Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society’, 1906. (Folio 1.)(ii) Undated writings of Leyden: legend of Duke Richard; part of a sermon; poem, 'To J.B. from J.L.'; part of ‘Scenes of Infancy’ (verse and notes). (Folio 149.)...
Dates:
1794-1811, undated.
Dairy of Thomas Stewart Traill., August-September 1844.
Item
Identifier: MS.19364
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
While in Southampton, Thomas Stewart Traill tended to his sick step-son, William Watson.
Dates:
August-September 1844.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
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Diaries of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to the Scottish Borders, London and Southampton.
Dairy of Thomas Stewart Traill., September-October 1844.
Item
Identifier: MS.19365
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
While in Southampton, Thomas Stewart Traill tended to his sick step-son, William Watson.
Dates:
September-October 1844.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
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Diaries of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to the Scottish Borders, London and Southampton.
Diaries and related items of various members of the family of Henry Mackenzie., 1784-1838, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6372-6375
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.
Dates:
1784-1838, undated.
Diaries and travel journals., 1887-1909.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12680/7-11
Diaries and travel notes of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1950-1978.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27196-27198
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.
Dates:
1950-1978.
Diaries of the 9th Marquess of Lothian., 1852-1876.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5794-5796
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
1852-1876.
Diaries of the Dunlop family., 1830-1860.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9261-9269
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...
Dates:
1830-1860.
Diaries of Thomas Stewart Traill of a tour in England., 1838.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19357-19359
Scope and Contents
Places visited include Newcastle, Durham and London.
Dates:
1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Diaries of Thomas Stewart Traill of a tour in England, with particular reference to visits to Oxford and London., 1823.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19352-19353
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Many of the diaries are illustrated with sketches of architecture and scenery. The diaries show Traill to have been a sensitive tourist giving detailed accounts of scenery, geology, history, local customs and industry.
Dates:
1823.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Diaries of Thomas Stewart Traill of a trip to Hamburg., 1830.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19354-19355
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Many of the diaries are illustrated with sketches of architecture and scenery. The diaries show Traill to have been a sensitive tourist giving detailed accounts of scenery, geology, history, local customs and industry.
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.