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Travel journals

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:

Diary of Myrtle L Simpson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4900
Scope and Contents

Detailing a crossing of Greenland.

Dates: 1966.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Diary of Patrick Hamilton Drummond of a voyage from London to Melbourne.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5700
Dates: 1874.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Fair copy, 1886, of the journal of James Greig of a hunting expedition in South Africa and Becknanaland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10027
Scope and Contents

Gives impressions of the scenery, games and meeting with missionaries, including David Livingstone.

Dates: 1844-1845.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Four albums of photographs by James Simson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3348
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Palestine, Syria, the Levant, Athens, Vienna and Strasbourg, and photocopies of 10 volumes of travel journals.

Dates: 1876.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Further papers concerning the career of Dr. Emre Araci, 1994-2004

 File
Identifier: MS.50712
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains substantial folders of correspondence with the conductor Dr. Emre Araci; opera singer Ian Caddy; Nobel Laureate and physicist Professor Peter Higgs; Professors Anthony 'Sandy' Robertson and Francesca Bray; theologian and scholar Fr. Brocard Sewell; and author Professor Alexander McCall Smith.

Dates: 1994-2004
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive / Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay / Letters to Lucinda Mackay from individual correspondents / Substantive correspondence files of specific individuals with Lucinda Mackay / Letters of, and papers concerning, Dr. Emre Araci

Highland travel journal of Peter Mark Roget.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12610
Dates: 1795.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Humorous journal in verse of a visit to Melrose and Abbotsford.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13741
Scope and Contents

This anonymous journal tells the story of a six day visit to Scotland made by Mr Cardonnel, a gentlemen probably from Northumberland, and his companion a country curate by the name of McMichael. The purpose of their tour was fishing and sightseeing. The story of their exploits including pranks on each other is told in comic verse.

Dates: ca.1837.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Illustrated diary of a tour of Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14084
Scope and Contents Journal of a tour of Scotland from 21 September to 1 October 1885. The unidentified author is a Scot living in Sunderland and travels to Scotland to visit his brothers and mother in Dundee. He visits places in and around Dundee including Newport-on-Tay and Howe of Strathmore, and then takes an excursion into the Highlands. He travels by train, steamer, coach, sail boat and on foot. The journal, written in the form of a daily diary, includes several painted illustrations including train...
Dates: 1885
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Illustrated journal of a rowing holiday in England of J G Scott, Aberdeen.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12415
Dates: 1891.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Illustrated travel journal of Samuel Jolly.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11734
Scope and Contents

Contains watercolours and pencil drawings of Scottish Highland scenery.

Dates: 1827.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Illustrated typescript travel journal of a visit to the Dolomites by Carl Marsh, Keyhaven, Hampshire.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12983
Dates: 1938.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Incomplete journal of a tour in Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12061
Dates: circa 1780.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Incomplete journal of visits to cities and cemetries of Etruria, authorship unknown, but neither David Roberts nor George Dennis (as once believed).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12613
Dates: 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal, 1832, of a visit to Sutherland made by Stephen Place, footman to George, 1st Duke of Sutherland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11265
Scope and Contents

Includes another journal of Place, 1870-1871.

Dates: 1832-1871
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal, 1851, of David Roberts recording a visit to Germany.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11672
Scope and Contents

Contains a few pages concerning a visit to Rome, 1853.

Dates: 1851-1853.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal , "A tour in Scotland by Mrs Cox with Mr and Mrs Favell".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12285
Scope and Contents

The tour party makes a circular tour from Camberwell, London, lasting 31 days. On their way to Scotland they visit Woburn Abbey and Chatsworth House. In Scotland they visit Kelso Abbey, Edinburgh, Stirling, Loch Earn, Inveraray, Dumbarton, Glasgow, New Lanark and Elvanfoot. In Edinburgh Mrs Favell sees Sir Walter Scott walking in the street.

Mr and Mrs Favell are possibly Samuel Favell (1760-1830) and Elizabeth Favell née Beddome (1765-1830).

Dates: 1822.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal, by unknown writer, of a mountaneering expedition in Switzerland.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3329
Dates: 1859.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal (in Italian) of Arabella Graham Clark.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6046
Scope and Contents

Documenting an expedition in Switzerland.

Dates: 1835.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of A Coaching Tour in Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13707
Scope and Contents In August 1893, Madeline Halkett, together with her father Sir Peter Arthur Halkett, her cousin Alice Hill and uncle Colonel Francis Hill from Dover, set out by carriage from Pitfirrane House for a week`s tour to the Trossachs. Their route took them from Bridge of Allan to Dunblane, Callander, Aberfoyle, Loch Katrine and the Lake of Menteith. The journal is written humorously in verse and delightfully illustrated with drawings of the party, their carriage, grooms and horses as...
Dates: 1893
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a Continental tour by R H Leach.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12616
Dates: 1837.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a continental tour of Andrew MacInnes.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13701
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...
Dates: 1830
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a Continental tour written by a traveller of Scottish descent and with Scottish connections.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12795
Dates: 1865.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of a cruise through the Western Isles, Scotland, in the `Spey` and `Echo` personal boats, by Hugh Tennent and dedicated to Robert Tennent.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12071
Dates: 1838.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13639
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...
Dates: 1886
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of `A Month in Scotland by M`, Rev. J.J. Twist, Rector of Holy Innocents Church, Manchester.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13571
Scope and Contents John James Twist and his travelling companion, C.P. Purton, travelled by rail from Wolverhampton for a month`s holiday in Scotland. In Scotland they took the coach and and steamer, but lalso walked, visiting Lanark, Edinburgh, Burntisland, Loch Leven, Perth, Oban, Inverary, Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Dunkeld, Aberfeldy, Loch Tay, Killin, Glencoe, Loch Katrine, Callendar, Stirling and Alloa.John James Twist comments, often humorously, on places visited, their lodgings and people they...
Dates: 1858
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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