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Travel journals.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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Found in 581 Collections and/or Records:

Two journals, possibly of Sir Arthur Pearson, of motoring tours made in Scotland., 1915-1920.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17954-17955
Scope and Contents

The tours begin by train from London and places visited include Glasgow, Oban, Ballachulish, Mallaig, Edinburgh and Perth. The writer's interests centre around the scenery, weather conditions, his fishing expeditions and the standards of Scottish hotels.

Dates: 1915-1920.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Two journals, possibly of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, of motoring tours made in Scotland; and photographs of Pearson and his second wife, Ethel Maude.

Typescript of a journal kept in France by Catherine Mure, perhaps the daughter of William Mure of Caldwell (succeeded 1776)., 1818.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4993
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

Dates: 1818.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell. / Literary and cultural papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell.

Various compositions of Sir Walter Scott., [?1799]-1831, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.876
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:“The Shepherd’s Tale”, [?1799], in Sir Walter Scott’s hand, containing slight variations throughout from the version given by John Gibson Lockhart in ‘Life of Sir Walter Scott’, chapter ix (folio 1);'The Maid of Neidpath', with the preface as published, 1806 (folio 13);'Wandering Willie', 1806 (folio 14B);'Lines on Mr. Macdonald of Staaffa ... left in the Book at the Inn there where the Travellers put their names...
Dates: [?1799]-1831, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order. / Original compositions of Sir Walter Scott.

Various drafts of 'Journal from Ceylon to Madras and from thence through the Carnatic and Travancore to Calicut, 1796' by Alexander Walker., 1796.

 File
Identifier: MS.13626
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates: 1796.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker. / Papers of Alexander Walker during his time in Malabar.

Volume entitled 'Farrago Libelli' by Alexander Walker, consisting of three chapters based on Walker's first-hand experience of India., 1781-1784.

 File
Identifier: MS.13775
Scope and Contents

The chapters are formed by a journal of Alexander Walker's voyage from Europe to India as a young officer in 1781, a journal of the Malabar expedition under Brigadier-General Mathews against Hyder Ali in 1782-1783, and a journal of the siege of Mangalore in 1783-1784. This fair copy seems to have been made circa 1821.

Dates: 1781-1784.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker. / Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.

Volumes I and III of a diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of a trip to Wales, with descriptions of local industry., 1807.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19348-19349
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: 1807.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family. / Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond. / 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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