Travel journals.
Found in 191 Collections and/or Records:
Three journals of Sir Patrick Walker, Advocate, describing a `Tour to the West of Scotland from Edinburgh to Arran by Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Saltcoats and Return to Edinburgh by Greenock. From July 24th to 13 Sept. 1797 inclusive`.
Each volume has an index and itinerary of the tour, with notes on the weather.
Tour of the Scottish Highlands, of R. Geddes.
Internal evidence suggests that the tour was undertaken between 1834 and 1861.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Transcript of the journals of John Mair.
Travel diaries, 1861, of John Cairns concerning Belgium, Germany and Switzerland; with recollections, 1866, of the Synod of the French Evangelical Church at Nimes.
Describing journeys to Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland in 1861, and Cairns' attendance at the Synod of the French Evangelical Churches at Nîmes, 1866.
Travel diaries of the Honourable Elsie Cameron Corbett.
Travel journal, “Mrs and Miss Beecroft’s third tour to Scotland, 1833”.
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).
Travel journal of Robert Cochrane, with accounts of travels in Europe and a round the world tour.
Travel journal recording a tour of Scotland and northern England.
Travel journals and household accounts of Peter MacDougal, a schoolmaster in Stirling, and his family.
"Trip to Edinburgh and Glasgow by the Polytechnic Y.M.C.I. ..." by W A Stephenson.
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 copy, early 20th century, of a journal of a tour in the Highlands, 1765, of Alexander Carlyle.
Bookplates of James Donald Dobson and James Sinton, Eastfield, Musselburgh. Includes five letters (tipped in), 1916-1925, to James Sinton regarding publishing the tour.
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.
The outward journey was made by sea to Brindisi, and the homeward by land, through Switzerland, France, and Belgium.
Typescript journal of a tour of Normandy and Brittany made by the "Quartette", composed of four Scotswomen, narrated by A E R.
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.