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Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Dates:
1884-1936, undated.
Journals of Ernest James Harris, Bank Manager, Haddington, consisting largely of accounts of caravanning holidays in Scotland, England, Wales, and Europe but also of a motoring tour in North America.
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
Papers of John A. Douglas, private in the Black Watch during the First World War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14143/1-6
Dates:
1917-1919.
Typescript journal of a tour of Normandy and Brittany made by the "Quartette", composed of four Scotswomen, narrated by A E R.
Item
Identifier: MS.17960
Scope and Contents
The journey began in London and ended in Edinburgh, and among places visited are Rouen, Caen, Bayeux, Coutances, Mont St Michel, Dinard and St Malo. The author appears particularly interested in architecture but devotes some space to the standard of accommodation. The volume includes a number of postcards of places visited.
Dates:
1904.