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The diary contains descriptive daily entries on Corbett's social life around her family's estates in Ayrshire, Scotland and in Chelsea, London, and remarks on contemporary Liberal politics, including the progress of campaigns for women's suffrage. The volume also contains a large number of pasted-in snapshot photographs taken by Corbett and her family in Scotland, and cuttings from London theatre programmes and periodicals.

Scope and Contents Journal of a tour to France, Switzerland and Germany by Andrew MacInnes and `Richard`. At the back of the volume are accounts of expenses on the tour, mileages and a number of Scottish songs. The notebook is bound in a larger twentieth century volume together with a full transcript and a letter of 1928 of Andrew MacInnes, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, son of the diarist, to his nephew Clayton McCall donating the journal to him. Andrew MacInnes and his companion...

Scope and Contents The author of this illustrated journal lived at Bedford Villa, Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol, and was probably Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Octavius Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol.The writer and `Charles` travelled from Bristol to Melrose by train and visited Abbotsford, Melrose Abbey and Dryburgh Abbey before leaving for Edinburgh. Queen Victoria had recently been in Edinburgh and there are numerous pasted in printed drawings of scenes of her visit. The...

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Details his life in Perth and Edinburgh, holidays in the Highlands and Skye, a trip to the Great Exhibition, London, and travels in the south of England.

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27 letters and one bill of lading of Alexander Lindsay to Thomas Lindsay. The letters are written from ports visited by Alexander Linsday during his career as a sea captain. Places visited include Calcutta, Madras, the Cape of Good Hope, Havre de Graca, Hamburg, as well as Portsmouth and London. One letter tells of his imprisonment by the French and an attack by pirates. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.

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Henrietta Liston`s letters to her step-uncle, James Jackson, were written before and after her husband`s embassy to the United States of America and before and during his posting to The Hague.

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Five letters to A. R. McNab in support of the proposed London Memorial to Sir William Wallace. Correspondents include Agnes Mure Mackenzie and Walter Elliot.

With a printed programme for `The Unveiling and Dedication of the London Memorial to Sir William Wallace Scottish Patriot`, 1956, signed by many of the attendees and a copy of `William Wallace National Hero of Scotland` the commemorative publication to mark the 650th Anniversary of his martyrdom.

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For shipment of a box from London to Leith to Messrs J Smith and Son.

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Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.

Content Description Details concerning Mair’s travels from London to the West Indies via Madeira, during which he visited Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, the Grenadines, St Vincent, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica, and his purchase of an estate and enslaved people in Dominica (folios 1-15). Particulars concerning Mair’s return journey from Dominica to London, the impact of Britain’s conflict with France and America on British colonies in the Caribbean and details of Mair’s plantation...