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Autobiography and diaries of foreign travel, circa 1953-1979, of Helen Henderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8867
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of poetry, circa 1890, of William Constable (originals now destroyed).
Dates:
circa 1890, circa 1953-1979.
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.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10707-10756
Dates:
1792-1874, undated.
Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.
Series
Identifier: MS.10775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(1) Journal, 11 November 1853-26 May 1856. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 4.
(2) Journal, 2 August 1858-9 January 1859. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 6.
(3) Journal, 1 December 1859-11 June 1860, 3 December 1860-23 March 1861.
See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham,...
Dates:
1853-1874.
Microfilm copy of 'Journal of a voyage to Lima'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.497 [Acc.10005]
Dates:
1843.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Photocopies of accounts, by Thomas Rolfe, of a voyage to and journey through Canada, as valet to George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, when Governor-General.
File
Identifier: Acc.9995
Dates:
1879-1881.
Photocopies of items of David Livingstone belonging to his grandson Dr H F Wilson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10757-10765
Dates:
1854-1873.
Photocopies of two diaries of Mary I Shaw Cuthbert and two companions on a journey to Tibet.
File
Identifier: Acc.3514
Dates:
circa 1919-circa 1950.
Photocopy of a journal of a tour in northern France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, by a member of the Fletcher family.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12117
Dates:
1836.
Photocopy of a journal of a tour in Sutherland, 1955, of David Cairns; with a photocopy of an address of David Cairns, 1969, to the Aberdeen Branch of the Saltire Society, entitled 'Annals of a Sutherland parish".
File
Identifier: Acc.5947
Dates:
1955, 1969.
Photocopy of a tour of the English Lake District and Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8139
Scope and Contents
Text in verse with many illustrations and calligraphic embellishments.
Dates:
1857.
Photocopy of a transcript of a journal describing a voyage from Glasgow to Queensland, Australia, by Margaret Hinshelwood.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12149
Dates:
1883.
Photocopy of a travel journal of a visit to Rome and Campania.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12118
Dates:
1863.
Photocopy of a typed version of a journal kept by Agnes Paterson, wife of Andrew Paterson, a merchant sea-captain in the service of Jardine and Mathieson, the oriental trading company.
Item
Identifier: MS.8925
Scope and Contents
The journal describes Agnes Paterson's voyage from Scotland to China, from her original departure from Leith to London, to her main embarkation at Portsmouth. It then records incidents on the journey, via the Cape of Good Hope and Java, to her destination at Macao. The journal was sent home in 1840 to her sister Janet, wife of Robert Morham, Depute Town Clerk of Edinburgh. A prefatory note by the donor gives a short biographical note on the compiler and mentions that it is not known whether...
Dates:
1839-1840.
Photocopy of diary of John Goldie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4609
Scope and Contents
Describing a journey through Upper Canada and some of the New England States.
Dates:
1819.
Photocopy of diary of tour through Scotland of the Reverend Francis Gastrell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5741
Dates:
1760.
Photocopy of journal, in letter form, of David Marshall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4206
Scope and Contents
Describes a visit to America.
Dates:
1850-1851.
Photocopy of the journal of Eliza Dawson made on a tour through the north of England and Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12017
Dates:
1786.
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1831-1882.