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Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Collection of papers of the Warden family.
The collection comprises correspondence of the Warden family, with transcripts of most of the correspondence, a travel journal written by Alexander Warden and a publication, 'Letters from St. Helena' (1816), by William Warden.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Description by Sir William Burrell of a tour made by him, chiefly in Scotland.
Description of voyage to South Africa of Trooper Charles Hunter, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.
Includes transcript of description. With letter and pocket book containg active service notes.
Journal kept by William Maxwell, managing director of R and R Clark, the Edinburgh printers, on a trip to the United States and Canada in October and November 1932.
The volumes contain carbon copies of diary-letters to a friend in Edinburgh, of which folios 51-65 are duplicated in MS.9759 by the retention of the originals. The journal contains a description of the sea voyage and the social life of his tour, but is notable for its detailed descriptions of visits to printing houses, particularly Donnelley's of Chicago (MS.9759, folios 51-65) and the Government Printing Office, Washington (MS.9760, folios 1-29).
Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
'Journal of a Tour to the Continent in Autumn, 1815, with Walter Scott, John Scott, Esqr., of Gala, and Alexr. Pringle, Younger of Whitebank', by Robert Bruce, Advocate, afterwards Sheriff of Argyll.
The journal runs from 28 July to 23 August. With it are a passport and letter (folio 23) of Robert Bruce, 1815, an article of the donor regarding the manuscript cut from ‘Chambers’s Journal’ (folio 25), and a letter of the donor, 1934, giving further information (folio 27).
Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.
Journals and letters describing travels in Germany, sent by Elizabeth Sym to her niece Elizabeth, later Lady Sym.
Originals and typed transcript.
Letters, 1859-1868, of Harriet Miller Davidson and family, with an account of a voyage from Australia to England in 1884 by Lydia Miller Davidson.
Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Microfilm of journals, notebooks, and draft letters of George Combe.
Microfilm of letters and a journal of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he made to Holland to inspect the canals and dykes.
Microfilm of letters and papers of, to, and concerning James Augustus Grant and family.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Papers of and concerning the Holden family of Baldovie; with a document concerning Thomas Greig, and with genealogical notes on the Guthries of Guthrie.
Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).
George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.
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.