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Lambert and his wife tour Scotland for a month in the summer of 1892, meeting up with four of their children at Oban. The Lamberts visit places including Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Braemar, Pitlochry, Dunkeld, Oban, Inverness and Glasgow.

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The journal covers a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy untaken between 29 June 1829 and early August 1830.

Scope and Contents Allan George Nicholson, his wife Peggie, and their son Michael, travelled by road from Cresham in Buckinghamshire to London where they took the Car Sleeper train to Perth. From there they toured Scotland for over weeks covering covering more than a thousand miles in a circular route to Scourie in the north, returning via the Great Glen and Oban. Places visited include Balmoral Castle, Portsoy, Culloden, Inverness, Lairg, Scourie, Lochinver, Oban, Fingal`s Cave, Iona and Glencoe. ...

Scope and Contents In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...

Scope and Contents The book opens with brief notes of a tour to Wales and Bath, 1810. This is followed (folio 4) by detailed reminiscences, written in 1813, of a prolonged visit to Bath in 1809-1810. The second part of the volume (folio 31) contains a long history, written during mourning and addressed to her children, of events in Ross's family, from her marriage in 1813 to Captain Ross, retired from naval service in the East, until his death in 1828. Among family homes mentioned are Troqueer Holm and...

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The journal is profusely illustrated with pencil drawings of the scenery described and of places visited. Several of the drawings bear the initials R D.

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The journal is unsigned, but the text indicates that the writer was an Irishman living in Glasgow or Greenock. Inside the front cover is written in pencil 'Mr Jn. Gordon'. The journal is a connected narrative interspersed with scenic descriptions of places such as Glen Farigaig, the falls of Foyers (folios 55-61) and Glencoe (folios 70-72). It is incomplete, ending in an unfinished sentence when the travellers had arrived at Greenock, one day's journey from the writer's home.

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The journal concludes with the words, 'So came to an end this glorious outing, for the great pleasure and profit of which I owe most hearty thanks to the best of Fathers that ever lived'. It was on this tour that Edmund Gosse met Robert Louis Stevenson, but there is no mention of the meeting in the journal.

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John Walker, from Kilmarnock, had previous experience on the Congo. The journal covers his voyage from Southampton to Cape Town, where he met H.M. Stanley, thence to the Congo, and the steamship operations to convey the expedition into the interior.

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Consists of volumes i-vii. The route taken was; Edinburgh, Tunbridge Wells, Belgium, the Rhine, Frankfort, Bavaria, Tyrol, Naples (several months), Rome (two months), and home by much the same route as before, only by Stuttgart and Heidelberg.

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The volumes contain carbon copies of diary-letters to a friend in Edinburgh, of which folios 51-65 are duplicated in MS.9759 by the retention of the originals. The journal contains a description of the sea voyage and the social life of his tour, but is notable for its detailed descriptions of visits to printing houses, particularly Donnelley's of Chicago (MS.9759, folios 51-65) and the Government Printing Office, Washington (MS.9760, folios 1-29).

Scope and Contents The author was born near Dover, and describes himself as a 'middle class man engaged in the business of life', possibly a doctor or lawyer. After a brief stay in Edinburgh, he visited Perth, Bannockburn, Callander, Inversnaid, Glasgow, Oban, Inveraray, and Rothesay, and returned again to Glasgow. The text is interspersed with poetry and songs, and is profusely illustrated with floral cut-outs, small prints, and water-colours, mainly of views. Three pages and some of the illustrations have...

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The narrative opens with an account of a tour in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, but most of the text is concerned with social life in York. The writer was a niece of the Reverend Andrew Ewbank, rector of Londesborough, Yorkshire, and many entries relate to his family. Amongst prominent personalities are Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, the novelist, and Dr Henry Moyes, a blind Scottish lecturer on popular science. A few pages have been torn out.

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The writer is not named but was apparently a young lady travelling with her brother and friends from Hampshire. She gives brief descriptions of the places visited which included Nottingham, the Lake District and Edinburgh; from here they toured the Highlands via Stirling, Inveraray and Loch Lomond before returning south through York and Peterborough.

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A full account is given of Adam Hay's travels and of his visits to places of interest. Of particular note are his descriptions of art galleries and museums in Italian cities such as Florence and Rome. Hay's interest in history also took him to Vesuvius and the sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii.