Travel journals.
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Found in 191 Collections and/or Records:
Journal of Lieutenant David Aytoun, Royal Navy, on H.M.S. Dragon in the Mediterranean, with various notes, observations and copies of correspondence.
File
Identifier: MS.13598
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes descriptions of Lisbon, Gibraltar and Minorca, the dimensions of the masts and yards of H.M.S. Dragon, religious notes, verses, copies of David Aytoun's letters and memorials requesting promotion, and Aytoun's curriculum vitae, which includes a list of the ships on which he served. Aytoun, a younger brother of the laird of Kinnaldie, joined the Royal Navy on 12 May 1729, as a Midshipman, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 13 October 1738. He went on...
Dates:
1743-1746.
Journal of Margaret Law in which she describes a visit to Lisbon in 1845.
Item
Identifier: MS.10340
Scope and Contents
The volume is illustrated with vignette drawings.
Dates:
1845.
Journal of Sieur de la Croix, as secretary to the French embassy to the Ottoman Empire.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.5 (i)-(iii)
Dates:
1673-1678.
Journal of the flight of H M Airship R-34 from East Fortune to Long Island, 2-6 July, and of her return journey to Pulham, 9-13 July 1919, with two telegrams, by Brigadier-General E M Maitland, who represented the Air Ministry on the trip.
File
Identifier: MS.2978
Dates:
1919.
'Journal of the tour round the Western Islands of Scotland 1788', a quarto notebook and various unbound pages forming together an incomplete journal, in the hand of John, 1st Marquess of Bute (then Lord Mountstuart).
Item
Identifier: MS.9587
Scope and Contents
The journal comprises chiefly the account of a voyage, August 1788, in the revenue cutter ‘Royal George’ from Mountstuart, Isle of Bute, to Islay (folio 2), Mull and Lismore (folios 5-12), Staffa and Iona (folios 26-27), North Uist and Lewis (folios 28-30), Skye and Raasay (folios 30-34), Canna (folios 34-41), and Oban and Kerrera (folio 42). There is also a fragment of journal, 12-19 October, relating to a later cruise in Loch Fyne (folio 43). Also included are...
Dates:
1788.
Journal of tours in Scotland and England made in 1830 and 1832 by Eliza Grieg.
Item
Identifier: MS.9938
Scope and Contents
The first tour, in August and September 1830, was from Edinburgh to Aberfeldy, St Fillans and Glasgow, returning through New Lanark where the party visited Robert Owen's school. The journal records the tour party as consisting of 'Mrs Bruce, Mr & Mrs Murray and two Misses Murray' [John Murray II and his family].The second tour (folio 17 verso) lasted from August to October 1832, when Miss Greig and her friends travelled to the Lake District, Chester, and Malvern, returning...
Dates:
1830, 1832.
Journal of voyages kept by midshipman Robert Ritchie, entitled 'Voyages to India and other parts ... 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815'.
Item
Identifier: MS.9232
Scope and Contents
The journal is complete only to 18 June 1812, breaking off in the middle of an entry recounting the crossing of the Equator. Two voyages are described. The first, to the Baltic in H.M.S. Nightingale, illustrates life in the Royal Navy, with crowded conditions and overbearing officers. Robert Ritchie, having decided to leave the Royal Navy, joined the East India Company and after an extensive stay in London sailed for India on the Lord Keith. The remainder of the journal describes a portion...
Dates:
1811-1812.
Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19200-19203
Dates:
1793, 1929-1938.
Journal of William Gauldie, schoolmaster of Kinnell, Angus of a voyage to South Africa undertaken after his retirement in 1910.
Item
Identifier: MS.8908
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the journal, which is apparently a fair copy based on diary-letters sent home, is concerned with the sea voyages. A short account of William Gauldie's time in South Africa (folios 33-39) is described as 'written from memory in 1915'. There are a few pencilled amendments in another hand.
Dates:
1910-1911, 1915.
Journal of William Whyte of Oban kept during his voyage from Leith to Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand as an emigrant.
File
Identifier: Acc.14574
Scope and Contents
William Whyte was brought up in a Free Church of Scotland family in Oban, the eldest son of Duncan Whyte, secretary and treasurer of the local National Security Savings Bank. He emigrated to New Zealand, possibly for religious reasons, on the ship Melbourne, which sailed from Leith in November 1860 and arrived in Dunedin in March 1861. His daily journal, written in the form of a letter to his family in Oban, contains detailed descriptions of life and conditions on board ship, with remarks on...
Dates:
1860-1861.
Journal, with printed maps and photographs, by William Douglas of the firm of Douglas and Foulis.
File
Identifier: MS.10975
Scope and Contents
The journal records visits to West Sutherland including Handa Island, 1888, and to Ailsa Craig, with an account of the making of curling stones, 1889.
Dates:
1888-1889.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10342-10370
Dates:
1752-1885, undated.
Journals and sketch-books of Henry Aston Barker the painter of panoramas (died 1856).
Series
Identifier: MSS.9647-9653
Dates:
1799-1855.
Journals kept by Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, during tours in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy, 1783-1785, and in the country between Paris and Clermont, 1791.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6324-6332
Scope and Contents
In both series, Sir James Hall shows his interest in metallurgy, mining, geology, agriculture, and architecture, including ancient ruins; he often breaks his narrative of events with long descriptions of phenomena or processes which have made an impression on him. Many drawings of machinery, tools, architectural motifs, geological formations, etc., are scattered throughout the text.
Dates:
1783-1785, 1791.
Journals of a voyage to Iceland in the ‘John’ of Leith, 23 May-3 November 1789, under the leadership of John Thomas Stanley, later 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6317-6318
Scope and Contents
Both journals include observations on weather, with land and sea temperatures during the voyage, and descriptions of the inhabitants, scenery, products, flora, minerals and volcanic phenomena of Iceland, and of such of the Orkney and Faroe islands as were visited.
Dates:
1789.
Journals of Alpine tours and other papers mostly connected with mountaineering, collected by Robert Wylie Lloyd, Alpinist.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.6337-6346
Dates:
1789-1947.
Journals of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay's 'Travels in Germany and The Imperial Hereditary States, During the Years 1795, 1796, 1797' transcribed by C. Piesse, 1801
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13970/1-4
Scope and Contents
Illustrated journals of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay's travels in Germany and The Imperial Hereditary States, 1795, 1796 and 1797. When he set out on his first tour, Charles Stuart was travelling alone apart from a servant and aged 18.Charles Stuart compiled his journals not for 'amusement' but for the 'information' of his friends 'to recall the different fact witnessed, and the various situations in which I was placed'. They were compiled shortly after he made the...
Dates:
1801.
Journals of (General Sir) Thomas M Steele.
File
Identifier: MS.20320
Scope and Contents
The journals are of hunting trips in South Africa in 1843 (folios 2-46) and India in 1844-1848 (folios 48 verso-95) and a visit to Spain in 1850-1851 (folios 97-110). Of a visit to South America in 1851 only the heading is present (folio 111). A list of animals shot is given on folio 1, and on folios 47-48 is a poem.
Thomas Steele met David Livingstone in 1843 (see folio 18) and remained his close friend.
Dates:
1843-1851.
Journals of the traveller and author William Edward Baxter (1825-1890).
Series
Identifier: MSS.15906-15907
Dates:
1850, 1852.
Journals of tours by Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1802 until his retirement in 1816, when he was created 1st Baron Colchester.
File
Identifier: MSS.9815-9816
Dates:
1815, 1827.
Journals of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during tours in Northern Germany, 1813-1814, while in performance of his duties, and in France and Holland, 1818, apparently on a pleasure trip.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6333-6334
Dates:
1813-1814, 1818.
'Journey in Scotland, with sketches of some picturesque ruins in that interesting country', being an account of a tour made by James Bailey, Otley, Yorkshire, from July to September 1787.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3294-3295
Scope and Contents
The writer set out to follow the route taken by Dr Johnson and to write a similar narrative to his ‘Journey to the Western Islands’. He describes Scotland and its people, noting particularly what is strange to an Englishman, relates his personal experiences, and tells many historical anecdotes and legends, some of which he declares to be new to him. The journal is illustrated with images copied from Adam De Cardonnel’s "Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland".
Dates:
1787.
Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2213-2222
Dates:
1782-1880.
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10707-10756
Dates:
1792-1874, undated.
Manuscripts of a French Officer named La Rochette, who appears to have been acting, at least in 1763, in the services of the Duc de Nivernais, then Ambassador at St James, in connection with Acadian and other French prisoners.
File
Identifier: MS.3803
Scope and Contents
In a note on folio i the officer is called Colonel de la Rochette; on folio 42 he describes himself as being addressed as General.The manuscripts consist of notes and drafts (some of these latter in several versions), chiefly on the following subjects. Some or all may have been intended for the Duc de Nivernais.(i) The campaigns of Agricola and Roman antiquities in Scotland, with some notes on early Britain in general. (Folios 1-42, 45-47, 58, 63.)(ii) A...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.