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Travel journals.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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Found in 191 Collections and/or Records:

Tour of the Scottish Highlands, of R. Geddes.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14242
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Internal evidence suggests that the tour was undertaken between 1834 and 1861.

Dates: Mid 19th century.

Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.

 File
Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates: 1765, 1800, 1819.

Transcript of the journals of John Mair.

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Identifier: MS.50267
Content Description Details concerning Mair’s travels from London to the West Indies via Madeira, during which he visited Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, the Grenadines, St Vincent, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica, and his purchase of an estate and enslaved people in Dominica (folios 1-15). Particulars concerning Mair’s return journey from Dominica to London, the impact of Britain’s conflict with France and America on British colonies in the Caribbean and details of Mair’s plantation...
Dates: 1776-1791.

Travel diaries, 1861, of John Cairns concerning Belgium, Germany and Switzerland; with recollections, 1866, of the Synod of the French Evangelical Church at Nimes.

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Identifier: Acc.5944
Scope and Contents

Describing journeys to Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland in 1861, and Cairns' attendance at the Synod of the French Evangelical Churches at Nîmes, 1866.

Dates: 1861, 1866.

Travel journal, “Mrs and Miss Beecroft’s third tour to Scotland, 1833”.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1674
Scope and Contents

The route, beginning and ending at Norwich, was: Newark, York, Carlisle, Selkirk, Edinburgh, where the tourists stayed a fortnight, Glasgow, Ayr, Dumfries, Carlisle, Lancaster, Manchester, Lichfield, Coventry, Leicester, and Stamford. There are accounts of hearsay about Sir Walter Scott (folio 24); of a visit to the Advocates’ Library (folio 42 verso); and of a visit to Mrs Burns, widow of the poet (folio 58 verso).

Dates: 1833.

Travel journal of Robert Cochrane, with accounts of travels in Europe and a round the world tour.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14386
Scope and Contents The volume includes a narrative entitled 'Journey of a Tour Round the World via Suez', recounting a tour through Liverpool, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York City, and back to Glasgow in 1871. Also included are narratives of separate tours in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden in 1865 and Spain and France in 1866. The accounts appear to have been copied into the volume retrospectively. They include detailed descriptions of...
Dates: 1865-1871.

"Trip to Edinburgh and Glasgow by the Polytechnic Y.M.C.I. ..." by W A Stephenson.

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Identifier: MS.9234
Scope and Contents Stephenson's diary covers his visit to Scotland from 23-30 August 1890. The writer gives his impressions of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and of places in the Forth and Clyde valleys and in the Central Highlands which he visited, such as Kirkcaldy, Dundee, Dunfermline, Greenock, Rothesay, Perth, Dunkeld, and Pitlochry. The main significance of the journal is in his description of his visit to the Edinburgh International Exhibition. He is interested in the engineering sections of the exhibition, the...
Dates: 1890.

Typescript copy, early 20th century, of a journal of a tour in the Highlands, 1765, of Alexander Carlyle.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14243
Scope and Contents

Bookplates of James Donald Dobson and James Sinton, Eastfield, Musselburgh. Includes five letters (tipped in), 1916-1925, to James Sinton regarding publishing the tour.

Dates: Early 20th century.

Typescript copy of a journal of a tour to Italy, made from London in 1891 by James John MacLehose, printer, Glasgow; bound with a volume of pamphlets from the library of the author.

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Identifier: MS.3520
Scope and Contents

The outward journey was made by sea to Brindisi, and the homeward by land, through Switzerland, France, and Belgium.

Dates: 1891.

Typescript journal of a tour of Normandy and Brittany made by the "Quartette", composed of four Scotswomen, narrated by A E R.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17960
Scope and Contents

The journey began in London and ended in Edinburgh, and among places visited are Rouen, Caen, Bayeux, Coutances, Mont St Michel, Dinard and St Malo. The author appears particularly interested in architecture but devotes some space to the standard of accommodation. The volume includes a number of postcards of places visited.

Dates: 1904.