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Switzerland. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 8.0000. Latitude: 47.0000.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Envelope containing negatives and photographic prints, annotated 'Switzerland 1957 [and] 1 of Rudha Hamish'., 1957.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 24(20)
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Dates: 1957.

Envelopes containing photographs and negatives of Lochmore, Switzerland and a rock formation., 1953.

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Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 22(13)
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Dates: 1953.

Journal and sketches of Switzerland., 1891.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/255
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1891.

Journal of a tour in Switzerland, with maps, guidebooks, postcards pasted in and loosely enclosed., 1907.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12559/6
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).

Dates: 1907.

Journal of a tour in Switzerland, with photographs, postcards and dried flowers pasted in and loosely enclosed., 1903.

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Identifier: Acc.12559/5
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).

Dates: 1903.

Manuscript of an account by John Cam Hobhouse of his visit to Switzerland between the summer of 1816 and October 1817., ? 1831-? 1854.

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Identifier: MS.42295
Scope and Contents This manuscript recounts a visit Hobhouse made to Switzerland in 1816. It details meetings with Lord Byron and Madame de Stael, as well as other people and places Hobhouse encountered during his journey.This work by Hobhouse was published by John Murray in 1859 as the first chapter of 'Italy : remarks made in several visits from the year 1816 to 1854'.The language of the manuscript is English, but where a remark was made in French, Hobhouse has recorded it...
Dates: ? 1831-? 1854.

Newspaper cuttings concerning Switzerland., 1938-1959.

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Identifier: Acc.3721/71/594
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series of files was placed in R E Muirhead's room in the Scottish Secretariat Office.

Dates: 1938-1959.

Photographs of Switzerland., 1949, undated.

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Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 23(5)
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Dates: 1949, undated.