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Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of Lord Pitman.
Comprising:
1. travel journals, 1924 and circa 1930, concerning Jamaica and Italy
2. "Tatters: a Memoir", 1937
3. Noelle Reid "A Pleasant Walk to Music Land", 1931
4. letters to Lord Pitman.
Papers of Ramsay family, of Ochtertyre.
1. three documents, 1723-1748, concerning James Ramsay of Ochtertyre
2. extract of letter, 1762, of Joseph Macdonald (possibly the piper)
3. journal, 1776, of the first part of a journey from Edinburgh to London
4. 18 poems in Latin and three in English, 18th century, many in the hand of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.
Papers of Sir Frank Fraser Darling.
Includes travel journals (Scotland, United States, Mexico, Zambia, Tanganyika (= Tanzania) and Kenya) and the manuscript of part of a book entitled "Agricultural Principles".
Papers of the Davidson of Muirhouse family.
Consisting of correspondence, mostly of John H Davidson and his brother Randall, and including the diary, 1884-1885, of John H Davidson`s world tour.
Papers of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
Papers of the family of Holden of Baldovie.
Papers of the Lamont of Knockdow family.
Includes:
Geographical journals and notes, circa 1869-1870, of Sir James Lamont, 1st Baronet, concerning Novaya Zemlya.
Diaries and correspondence, 1888-1954, of Sir Norman Lamont, 2nd Baronet, and Augusta Lamont, both of Knockdow.
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Papers of the Reverend David Thomas.
Includes:
journal, 1904, of a visit to Australia, with an edited typescript
volume of hymns, undated
photograph, undated, of "Old Scotch Collegians" in Melbourne
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
"Penson's short progress into Holland, Flanders, and France, with remarques, written by Thomas Penson, Anno Domini 1690", and account of a tour made in the second half of 1687.
Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison
Personal papers of Cécile Victor.
Includes diaries, travel journals and sketchbooks.
Photocopies of accounts, by Thomas Rolfe, of a voyage to and journey through Canada, as valet to George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, when Governor-General.
Photocopies of items of David Livingstone belonging to his grandson Dr H F Wilson.
Photocopies of two diaries of Mary I Shaw Cuthbert and two companions on a journey to Tibet.
Photocopy, circa 2005, of a journal, 1922, of a voyage to New Zealand by Margaret Laing Whyte, Edinburgh.
Photocopy of a journal of a tour in northern France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, by a member of the Fletcher family.
Photocopy of a journal of a tour in Sutherland, 1955, of David Cairns; with a photocopy of an address of David Cairns, 1969, to the Aberdeen Branch of the Saltire Society, entitled 'Annals of a Sutherland parish".
Photocopy of a tour of the English Lake District and Scotland.
Text in verse with many illustrations and calligraphic embellishments.