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“A fortnight's cruise in the Ailsa from June 29 to July 13 1892”.
An account of a voyage in an RNYC yacht round the Western Islands, by an unidentified author, illustrated with photographs, water-colour drawings, and pen sketches of the party, crew and scenery.
The party includes Jessie, Rae, Fred and cousin A. Rintoul and others.
The crew were Captain Peter MacNichol, Jack MacMillan, John MacAllister, Ronald MacDonald, Malcolm Wilkie and Dugald MacGillivray.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
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.
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'.
Holiday journal compiled by Mrs William Waddell mainly during holidays on the Isle of Arran, with pen sketches of various locations, inscribed volume III.
Journal kept by David Livingston from August 1862 to February 1863, describing the ascent of the rivers Rovuma and Shire, with accounts of the country and people passed; illustrated with diagrams and sketches.
Journal of a tour to Scotland, 12 August-7 October 1842, kept by Miss S Taylor, of Moore Green, near Birmingham.
Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
‘Journal of a trip to the Island of Gottland, Sweden, Denmark, &c., &c., with Some Correspondence, and Remarks upon the Capabilities of that Island as a Field for Emigration, by John Shedden Dobie'.
The author was one of a party who made a tour of inspection of Gottland in connection with a scheme, promoted by Robert Chambers, the publisher, to settle British farmers there. Their report was entirely adverse. The volume includes a printed prospectus of the scheme, relevant newspaper articles, and correspondence with Chambers, 1850, and is illustrated with several water-colour sketches.
Journal of expeditions to castles and other locations mostly on the coast of Caithness and in Shetland, illustrated with sketches and with calligraphic flourishes, by Mary Russell.
Journal of J Ker, Surgeon in the Royal Navy.
The Naval log is illustrated by sketches of ships, scenery, antiquities, etc., and accompanied by several poems and a dissertation on the putrid fever of St Lucia (folio 27). The scenes and incidents described include the West Indies, 1778-1779; Denmark and Zetland, 1780; the loss of the ‘Royal George’, 1782; and the battle of Cape St Vincent.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
'Journey in Scotland, with sketches of some picturesque ruins in that interesting country', being an account of a tour made by James Bailey, Otley, Yorkshire, from July to September 1787.
The writer set out to follow the route taken by Dr Johnson and to write a similar narrative to his ‘Journey to the Western Islands’. He describes Scotland and its people, noting particularly what is strange to an Englishman, relates his personal experiences, and tells many historical anecdotes and legends, some of which he declares to be new to him. The journal is illustrated with images copied from Adam De Cardonnel’s "Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland".
Microfilm of album, ?1780-?1782, of sketches of figures and scenes in the Peninsula and France, by Mrs Mary Graham; and, journal, July-August 1792, of Thomas Graham, of his return journey through France after the death of Mrs Graham.
Microfilm of journal kept by David Livingston from August 1862 to February 1863, describing the ascent of the rivers Rovuma and Shire, with accounts of the country and people passed; illustrated with diagrams and sketches.
Microfilm of Journal of John Dunlop, younger brother of Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Microfilm of journals of John Francis Campbell, 1841-1842; and, Matthew Boulton Rennie, 1831, describing visits to Spain.
The contents are as follows:
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing his time in Spain during a Mediterranean tour Campbell made while he was still a student at Eton, between 1841 and 1842 (Adv.MS.50.3.14, folios 18-86, 287-440);
Journal, 1831, of Matthew Boulton Rennie of a visit to Spain (MS.19949).
Notebook of Elizabeth Hume.
Containing poems by Hume and others, sketches, and journal of a trip to England and Wales.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Sketchbook of `Pencil sketches to commemorate my journey to Scotland in the summer and autumn of 1846.`
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.
With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated
photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd
biographical note, 1882.