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Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.13
Dates:
8 June-19 September 1668.
Series
Identifier: Dep.202
Item
Identifier: Acc.12639
Scope and Contents
Includes a journal of expenses.
Dates:
1817.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.25
Scope and Contents
The manuscript records Playfair`s day-to-day architectural work, with notes of his expenses and a few accounts for clients.
Throughout the period, Playfair was living in London and visiting Scotland once a year. The journal, which is particularly detailed for 1788-1789, gives the names of his clients and information about drawings and other work done for them. The buildings included Cullen House, Bothwell Castle and Dupplin Castle, and were mostly in Scotland.
Dates:
1783-1792.
File
Identifier: Acc.14146
Scope and Contents
The journal is comprised of descriptive daily entries including observations on the ship, its crew, and the other passengers in steerage; and a postscript written upon arrival in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Dates:
1877
Item
Identifier: Acc.14164
Scope and Contents
While at Argos from 1828 until 1831 Thomas Gordon, James Robertson, and the historian George Finlay worked on the site of the ruined Heraeum near Argos.
Dates:
1828-1829.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13411
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1880-1881, of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi. James Sutherland was recruited as an agriculturalist for the Free Church of Scotland mission in Nyasaland, now Malawi, during its early years. His journal describes his journey up the Zambesi and the Shire, and includes comment on the landscape and its suitability for cultivation. Sutherland arrives at the Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre in February 1881, where he stays for a few weeks before...
Dates:
1880-1885.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12889
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.6.6-22.6.10
Scope and Contents
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
1825-1840.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.1
Scope and Contents
The author was serving as a lieutenant on board the `Pontchartrain`, a 56-gun vessel of the Compagnie Royale des Indes Orientales, bound from Lorient to Surat in Bombay, and on board the `Aurore` on his return to France. He kept the journal for the entertainment of an unnamed French lady, and although he recorded the distances covered, wind directions, etc., most of the journal concerns life on board, with lively descriptions of the passengers and of local customs in Africa and especially in...
Dates:
1698-1700.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13689
Scope and Contents
Journal of Robert Mylne, recording a visit to Paris with James Watt, 1839. Robert William Mylne (1816-1890), engineer and geologist, visited Paris between April and May 1839 with James Watt (1769-1848), engineer and manufacturer. The main focus of the visit as recorded in the journal is the regular negotiation with Francois Arago, leading to the publication of Arago’s ‘Eloge’ to James Watt, the elder, later that year. Also recorded are Mylne’s own investigations and proposals...
Dates:
1839
Item
Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents
The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates:
1852-1867
Item
Identifier: Acc.9218
Scope and Contents
Kept mainly by the Reverend David Clement Scott.
Dates:
1884-1896.
Scope and Contents
The journal is preceded by a 'narrative of some part of the management of the said works' from 15 May 1745, a few days before the works were bought by William Grant, until 2 April 1748; with weekly coal bills from 9 August 1745 to 2 April 1748. Weekly salt bills for the same period are not given (see folio 16).The journal from 2 April 1748 (folio 16 verso) contains, in its earlier stages, a considerable amount of technical matter relating to mining. On the financial side, the...
Dates:
1745-1750.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.19
Item
Identifier: Acc.14504
Scope and Contents
Includes references to the arrangements for George IV's visit to Scotland in 1822.
Dates:
1795-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.3
Scope and Contents
The journal describes a journey from London through Holland to Berlin, Dresden and Vienna, during the first three months of 1844. Bell comments on the architecture and customs of the places he passed through, and on the difficulties of travel. He was keenly interested in paintings and visited several collections, but his primary interest was in medical matters, particularly in Vienna, where he describes the hospitals and criticises their practices. There are a few small sketches and plans,...
Dates:
1844.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13420
Scope and Contents
Edward Theodore Salvesen (1857-1942) was the son of Christian Frederick Salvesen (1827-1911), the Norwegian born founder of the Salvesen shipping company of Leith. He was educated at Edinburgh University and called to the Scottish Bar in 1880, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1899. As a Liberal Unionist candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituencies of Leith Burghs in 1900 and Bute in 1905. He was Sheriff of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire and Selkirkshire from 1901-1905...
Dates:
1873-1900.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13360
Scope and Contents
Ernest James Harris spent his working life as a banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was a branch manager in Leith and later for many years in Haddington. In the early 1970s, he represented the Bank in New York. The journals provide a detailed record of family holidays, generally by caravan, over more than thirty years. They are illustrated with pasted in specifications of caravans owned by the family, leaflets and plans of caravan sites visited, photographs, postcards,...
Dates:
1960-1985
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.9
Scope and Contents
The meetings began on 14 March 1689 in Edinburgh and the journals are complete to the adjournment on 24 May.
Dates:
1689.
File
Identifier: Acc.13030
Scope and Contents
Letters largely addressed to Auguste Duvau and E´douard Mounier; with letters from Hugh Hope and other members of the Hope family to European contacts; with an agricultural journal, 1825-1827 and a typescript transcription of another 1807 journal.
Dates:
1801-1844.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13233
Scope and Contents
Alastair Mackie left his literary remains to his friend, and former pupil, the writer Christopher Rush. The collection was very disordered when Rush received it, and he has carried out extensive work in sorting and listing it, alongside his preparation an edition of Alastair Mackie`s collected poems for publication by Two Ravens Press. The collection primarily consists of draft manuscripts of Mackie`s Scots and English poems, and of his translations of ancient and modern European and Russian...
Dates:
1937-1995.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents
Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.
Dates:
Circa 1966-2013.
File
Identifier: Acc.9025
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.32.6.16-32.6.26