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Three volumes of the journal of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, describing his service in Spain, the Low Countries, and in the Penninsula and South-West France.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12037
Dates:
1808-1813.
Tour of the Scottish Highlands, of R. Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14242
Scope and Contents
Internal evidence suggests that the tour was undertaken between 1834 and 1861.
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Tours of Scotland and England by A L.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10285
Scope and Contents
Locations include: Edinburgh, Stirling, Glasgow, Loch Lomond, the Clyde canal, the English Lakes, via Hawick and Langholm and the Highlands.Account of 1785 tour to Edinburgh and around Glasgow begins at Berwick. The author travels with Mr Heron. Account of 1786 tour of the English Lakes accompanied by Mr Heron, Mr Ruddock and Mr Wilson, begins at Berwick.Account of the 1788 tour to the Highlands begins at Alnwick. The author travels to Edinburgh where he...
Dates:
1785-1788.
Transcript, 1893, of the manuscript journal, 1736-1737, of Dr Alexander Cunyngham, later Sir Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, made on his Italian journey with Allan Ramsay, painter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12078
Scope and Contents
Includes material not printed in "Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest" (1897).
Dates:
1893.
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.
File
Identifier: Acc.6748-is now MS.50267
Scope and Contents
Concerning travels in the West Indies.
Dates:
1776-1791.
Transcript of the journals of John Mair.
File
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.
File
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 diaries of T S Thomson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6856
Scope and Contents
Concerning trips to Switzerland, 1885, Spain, 1887, Tyrol, 1890, and Egypt, 1903.
Dates:
1885-1903.
Travel diaries of the Honourable Elsie Cameron Corbett.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14194/1-2
Dates:
1928-1935.
Travel diary of an unknown Scotsman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8518
Scope and Contents
Describes travels through the Low Countries, Germany and Switzerland, with companion James Skene of Rubislaw.
Dates:
1802.
Travel journal, in French, of Paul Cramer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4438
Scope and Contents
Detailing tour to Mont Blanc, Val d`Aoste, and Vallée de Zermatt.
Dates:
1855.
Travel journal, in three volumes, of Mary Pringle, recording travels in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the Low Countries.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12128
Dates:
1819-1821.
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 Francis Jeffreys in the United States.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11099
Scope and Contents
Covers visits to New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other places, and contains an account of Jeffreys` discussions with President Madison and Secretary of State Monroe.
Includes typed transcript of Sir Denis Brogan.
Dates:
1813.
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.
Travel journal of Thomas Thomson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6399
Scope and Contents
Describing a tour in England.
Dates:
1831.
Travel journal probably of William Edward Baxter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10382
Scope and Contents
Records a tour through France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy.
Dates:
1844.
Travel journal recording a tour of Scotland and northern England.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11427
Dates:
1817.
Travel journals and household accounts of Peter MacDougal, a schoolmaster in Stirling, and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8935-8941
Dates:
1812-1858.
Travel journals and photographs of Elizabeth Sandford.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12437
Dates:
1951-1987 and undated.
Travel journals of Robert Sym WS recording visits to Paris, the Low Countries and Northern France, and Hamburg.
File
Identifier: Acc.12708
Scope and Contents
Includes a printed map of Paris and typed transcript.
Dates:
1802-1819.
‘Travels in Palestine, May 1876: an extract from the furlough diary of James Simson, Commissioner of Allahabad, Bengal Civil Service’, including a description of a similar visit by Colonel Alexander M. Simson, May 1964.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13683
Scope and Contents
An extract from the travel diary of James Simson, Commissioner of Allahabad with the Bengal Civil Service, on a trip to Palestine. This extract is taken from a more extensive diary written by James Simson when, on his return to Scotland from India on furlough in 1876, he broke his journey with a visit to Palestine. He records visits to Baalbek, Damascus, Ephesus and Corinth, and then the outline of his sea trip to Constantinople, before travelling on to Scotland by train.The...
Dates:
1876, 1964
"Trip to Edinburgh and Glasgow by the Polytechnic Y.M.C.I. ..." by W A Stephenson.
File
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.
Two journals, possibly of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, of motoring tours made in Scotland; and photographs of Pearson and his second wife, Ethel Maude.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17954-17955A
Dates:
1915-1920, undated.