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Letters concern two tours in Europe, his first in Germany and the second in Italy and France.

Scope and Contents This album consists largely watercolours of places visited in Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Devon and Cornwall between 1910 and 1924. Many are signed Florrie Bankes, or F.B. Places depicted include Loch Laggan, Loch Achray, Loch Katrine, Ackergill Tower, Balmacarra, the castle of Eilean Donan and Loch Duich, Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Ben Cruachan, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, the road to Mallaig, Gruinard, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Lochaillort, Loch Feochan.The album also includes a number of...

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This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.

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During the advance of the British army from Aquino to the Arno, while commanding 2nd Lothians and Borders Horse.

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Concerning a tour in France and Italy.

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The journal covers a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy untaken between 29 June 1829 and early August 1830.

Scope and Contents The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...

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With documents, 1825-1830, concerning the purchase of paintings in Italy.

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Three minute books of the Waldensian Missions Aid Society Scotland, 1898-1984.

One volume is a minute book of the Central Committee, the other two volumes are minute books of the Western Committee:

1 - Central committee, 1923-1972

2 - Western branch, 1898-1929

3 - Western committee, 1953-1984.

Other minute books can be found in earlier deposits, Acc.12519 and Acc.13298.

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These notes have been compiled from earlier travel journals.

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Comprising:

1. travel journals, 1924 and circa 1930, concerning Jamaica and Italy

2. "Tatters: a Memoir", 1937

3. Noelle Reid "A Pleasant Walk to Music Land", 1931

4. letters to Lord Pitman.

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Papers, 1865-1975, of the Waldensian Missions Aid Society, including annual reports, minutes, financial papers and glass slides.

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Covers Black's service in Italy and Spain as a surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. Following enlistment as a hospital mate in 1806 Black rose to the position of Regimental Surgeon in Spain serving under the Duke of Wellington. The journal culminates in Black's experiences during the Siege of Tarragona.

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Emily Jackson`s journal of her tour in Italy includes an account of a holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1887.

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Includes material not printed in "Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest" (1897).

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Records a tour through France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy.

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Notebooks record travels and climbing expeditions in Italy, France and Spain.

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With another volume of cuttings "Continental Articles" from the Edinburgh Evening Courant, published under the name of "An Occassional Correspondent".

Scope and Contents Wartime logbook, 1938-1942, of Flight Sergeant Charles D. Paterson, recording his experiences during the Second World War. The contents list at the beginning of the volume suggests that Paterson was a POW in first Italy then in Germany, although the description of his experiences is incomplete and ends before his capture. In one of the chapters, Paterson notes that he has been a prisoner of war for almost 3 years. In addition to Paterson`s description of his flight...