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Copy of William Allan, "History of the Campaign of Gen T J (Stonewall) Jackson", inscribed and marked by Douglas Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7135
Scope and Contents
Containing maps and sketches, undated.
Dates:
1888 and undated.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Dates:
Circa 1903-1982, undated.
Journal of a tour to Scotland, 12 August-7 October 1842, kept by Miss S Taylor, of Moore Green, near Birmingham.
Item
Identifier: MS.8927
Scope and Contents
The writer covered some 1,800 miles in all (over 500 of them by rail) and her route extended as far as Inverness in the north, and Iona in the West. The account of her Scottish journey is accompanied by details of her travels in the north of England. The text is profusely illustrated with pencil or ink sketches by the author (a few pencil sketches were made on an earlier journey in 1817), and with nearly 300 small engravings of places visited. A contemporary printed map of...
Dates:
1842.
Logbook of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, the geologist, containing accounts of two journeys made by him when he was a youth of eighteen and nineteen.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.15
Scope and Contents
The first account describes `A Cruize among the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. June 1836` and the second is a `Log of the Barbara of Bedford during her voyage from Bedford to York. July 1835` (folio 43).At the end of each log, there are lists of illustrations which apparently were meant to accompany the text, but the only drawings in the logbook appear in the second account. There is a map of the area between York and Bedford (folio 44) and a sketch of `A Yorkshireman`s...
Dates:
1835-1836.
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.556-558
Dates:
[?1765]-1918.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17901-17926
Scope and Contents
James Augustus Grant joined the Bengal Army in 1848 and was at the siege of Multan, the battle of Gujerat, and the relief of Lucknow. From 1860 to 1863 he was seconded to the Royal Geographical Society's expedition under John Hanning Speke, when the source of the Nile was identified and Uganda and southern Sudan visited. After further service in Kashmir and secondment to Napier's Abyssinian expedition, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1868. He was awarded the Gold Medal of...
Dates:
1821-1892, undated.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17929-17948
Dates:
1765-1918, undated.
Plan of the estate of Freefield, Aberdeenshire, belonging to Alexander Leith, by John Hutchison.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7755
Scope and Contents
Including various measurements and statistics concerning the estate, and a sketch of the south east prospect of Freefield House in 1756.
Dates:
1736-1756.
Portfolio of W A Hall, apprentice cartographer at John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.
File
Identifier: Acc.11281
Scope and Contents
Includes art, calligraphy and illustrating stages of map production.
Dates:
1938-1946.
Seven plans of Cava, Tankerness, and Orphir, in Orkney; with two sketches of Stromness.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4065/1-7
Dates:
1816-late 19th century.