Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833.
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Assessments claimed in respect of the local Poor Law Acts on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].
The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.
Document concerning a proposed Guild of Co-operative Pioneers, Glasgow.
Illustrated letters of H Wilson, pseudonym Hall Tweed, to Mrs C Whalley, London.
Wilson describes life in Greenock and Glasgow.
Journal and letters of Captain Edward Henry Columbine, Royal Navy.
Columbine describes places in Northern Ireland and on the west coast of Scotland, the Firth of Clyde and Glasgow, visited while on anti-smuggling duty.
Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`
Journal of a tour in Scotland of a dissenting English preacher.
Journal of a tour in Scotland of Elizabeth Susannah Graham
The journal describes a visit to Scotland in the autumn of 1819 made by Elizabeth Susannah Graham and her daughter Eliza Maria Graham. The tour includes lively descriptions of visits to New Lanark, Glasgow, a steam boat trip on Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, the Caledonian Canal, Inverary, Staffa and Oban. The tour ends with a visit to Edinburgh and the journal includes descriptions of pictures viewed at the premises of Alexander Nasmyith and Henry Raeburn.
'Journal of a tour on foot through part of the Highlands', possibly by Peter Ramsay of Edinburgh.
The author and his brother Robert set off from Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, on 15 August 1812. They travel to Glasgow where they spend a couple of days (including visits to factories) and then on Dumbarton and Luss. The journal ends only a few days into their tour after their ascent of Ben Lomond.
Journal of a voyage from Glasgow to Buenos Aires, probably a retrospective fair copy.
Journal of Lucy Elizabeth Sherwood.
During a visit to Glasgow and Edinburgh, and a long stay at Seggieden.
Legal papers, maps and prospectuses, largely concerning a Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh canal, and the Slamannan Railway, Stirlingshire.
Letter of William Blackwood to John Bradfute.
Concerns bookselling in Glasgow.
Letter recounting a tour through Scotland.
Letter to Mr Haddon, 28 September, 1839 of a tour through Scotland. The tour goes through Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee, Culloden, and back through Ayr to view the Eglinton Tournament of 1839.
Letters, memoranda and press cuttings relating mainly to Janie Allan and the work of the Women's Social and Political Union in Glasgow.
Magazine in manuscript, 'The Gael', created by Marjory Bonar.
Minute book of the Glasgow Theological Academy
"Notices and Documents Illustrative of the Literary History of Glasgow..." (Maitland Club, 1831), with annotations by G P Johnston.
Papers concerning "Writing Together: an International Festival of Writing", Glasgow.
Includes reports, memoranda, committee minutes and letters from among others, Sorley MacLean, Naomi Mitchison and Edwin Morgan.