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Italy. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 12.8333. Latitude: 42.8333.

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Postcards of towns and scenery in Italy and Provence collected by Esther Barbara Chalmers on one or more holidays there., 1950s.

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Identifier: Acc.8695/219
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: 1950s.

"Speech of Austen Henry Layard, Esq., M.P., in the House of Commons, Friday, April 11, 1862, on affairs in Italy.", 1862.

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Identifier: MS.42409
Scope and Contents

The speech, an offprint from "Hansard`s Parliamentary Debates, Vol. clxvi", is accompanied by an envelope addressed by Layard to "Mrs. Austen, 6 Montegue Place, Bedford Green, WC".

Dates: 1862.

Surgeon's journal of Ebenezer Black.

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Identifier: Acc.14342
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1806-1815.

Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.

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Identifier: MSS.23625-23628
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1884-1892.

Travel journal probably of William Edward Baxter.

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Identifier: Acc.10382
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1844.

Two notebooks and a commonplace book of E H Mill of the Burn, Kincardineshire.

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Identifier: Acc.10469
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1872-1882 and undated.

Two volumes recording travels in France, Corsica, Italy, Belgium, Germany and Austria.

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Identifier: Acc.13024
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1853-1862.

Wartime log of Flight Sergeant Charles D Paterson.

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Identifier: Acc.13215
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...
Dates: 1938-1942.