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Diary of a return trip between Edinburgh and Yokohama by Miss Madelena L Stewart.
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Identifier: Acc.12756
Scope and Contents
Comprises bound notebook compiled in pencil and loose typescript with illustrations.
Dates:
1934.
Illustrated journal of a rowing holiday in England of J G Scott, Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12415
Dates:
1891.
Illustrated typescript travel journal of a visit to the Dolomites by Carl Marsh, Keyhaven, Hampshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12983
Dates:
1938.
"Journal of a few days from home in the summer of 1856 with selected poetry and songs".
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Identifier: MS.9233
Scope and Contents
The author was born near Dover, and describes himself as a 'middle class man engaged in the business of life', possibly a doctor or lawyer. After a brief stay in Edinburgh, he visited Perth, Bannockburn, Callander, Inversnaid, Glasgow, Oban, Inveraray, and Rothesay, and returned again to Glasgow. The text is interspersed with poetry and songs, and is profusely illustrated with floral cut-outs, small prints, and water-colours, mainly of views. Three pages and some of the illustrations have...
Dates:
1856.
Journal of an Irish couple's Scottish tour, with illustrations and detailed accounts.
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Identifier: Acc.12615
Scope and Contents
Journal describing a two month tour of Scotland by Frederick and Nannie. They begin their journey from Dublin in August 1849. They cross by boat from Derry to Greenock. Places visited include: Luss, Tarbet, Loch Tay, Crieff, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The journal is illustrated with pen sketches by Nannie.
Dates:
1849.
Journal of travels in the Near East and Greece of
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10121
Scope and Contents
With an illustrated narrative of his residence in Cairo and Jerusalem and additional papers.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Manuscripts of illustrated books and travel journals of Doris Ann Goodchild.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11801
Dates:
1955-1996.
"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.
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Identifier: MS.3003
Scope and Contents
The places described in most detail are Rotterdam, Delft, Leyden, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, Lille, Paris, and Versailles. Thomas Penson describes monuments and other sights, sometimes very fully (e.g., the museum of the Academy at Leyden), institutions, ceremonies, the life of the people, and his personal experiences and difficulties as a traveller.The book, which appears to have been written only for distribution in manuscript, is decorated with illustrations and other...
Dates:
1690.
Photocopy of a tour of the English Lake District and Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8139
Scope and Contents
Text in verse with many illustrations and calligraphic embellishments.
Dates:
1857.
"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.