Travel journals
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:
Journal of a Scotsman, concerning travels in Mauritius, Madagascar, and Zanzibar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7531
Dates:
1862-1864.
Journal of a sea voyage from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, Banff and Montrose by John K Sim.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11665
Dates:
1834.
Journal of a tour in France, Switzerland and Italy, by Scotish traveller of the Anderson family.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7551
Dates:
1864.
Journal of a tour in Persia possibly by Colonel William Wauchope of Niddrie Marishall.
File
Identifier: Acc.12492
Scope and Contents
Includes another journal of travels in Mesopotamia by an unknown member of the Honourable East India Company.
Dates:
1810.
Journal of a tour in Scotland of a dissenting English preacher.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13235
Scope and Contents
The writer travelled from the vicinity of Hertford to Scotland to preach in order to raise funds for the Hibernian Society. While in Scotland he met with Seccession ministers and other Dissenters, preaching on numerous occasions to large congregations. Places visited include Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Paisley, Port Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen. Although preaching was the main purpose of the tour, this was the writer`s first visit to Scotland and he comments as a tourist on his...
Dates:
1820.
Journal of a tour in Scotland of Elizabeth Susannah Graham
Item
Identifier: Acc.13509
Scope and Contents
The journal describes a visit to Scotland in the autumn of 1819 made by Elizabeth Susannah Graham and her daughter Eliza Maria Graham. The tour includes lively descriptions of visits to New Lanark, Glasgow, a steam boat trip on Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, the Caledonian Canal, Inverary, Staffa and Oban. The tour ends with a visit to Edinburgh and the journal includes descriptions of pictures viewed at the premises of Alexander Nasmyith and Henry Raeburn.
Dates:
1819
Journal of a tour in the western counties of Scotland by Miss Archibald Montgomerie Williamson, later Lady Fairfax.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13028
Dates:
circa 1817.
Journal of a tour of Scotland of Elizabeth Cowburn.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14154
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Cowburn departs from London, travelling through Scotland by train, steamer and carriage. Places visited include Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dunkeld, Blair Atholl, Inverness, Stirling and Iona. The journal includes pencil sketchess and pasted in printed illustrations.
Dates:
1854
Journal of a voyage from Glasgow to Buenos Aires, probably a retrospective fair copy.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12461
Dates:
1865-1866.
Journal of a voyage to the Levant and a trip to the Holy Land undertaken by the Rev Norman C Macfarlane of Juniper Green, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12888
Dates:
1913.
Journal of Alexander Ballantyne recording a tour of Germany, the Low Countries and Paris, via Waterloo, beginning and ending in Kelso.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12639
Scope and Contents
Includes a journal of expenses.
Dates:
1817.
Journal of Alexander Kennedy, kept during voyage to South Australia as an emigrant.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10673
Dates:
1878.
Journal of an extended visit to Scotland and Ireland by an anonymous female Swiss teacher.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13318
Scope and Contents
This journal was written by a Swiss female teacher on an extended visit to Scotland and Ireland during the First World War. There are descriptions of time spent in Edinburgh, particularly Greyfriars Church, Caroline Park and Granton, also visits to Rosslyn Chapel, Perth, and Craigo House near Montrose. While in Montrose she worked in a factory manufacturing hospital supplies. There is a detailed account of the events of Armistice Day, 1918. At the back are a number of recipes for cakes and...
Dates:
1917-1919
Journal of expeditions to castles and other locations mostly on the coast of Caithness and in Shetland, illustrated with sketches and with calligraphic flourishes, by Mary Russell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12858
Dates:
1852-1853.
Journal of Frederic Leo Schuster, "Holiday Excursion in Switzerland and Italy...".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5530
Dates:
1854.
Journal of John Mackay, a Haddington man, describing his sea voyage to the Australian goldfields.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6158
Scope and Contents
Ledger containing journal of John Mackay, an iron foundry moulder from West Port, Haddington, who emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1852, possibly intending to join the gold rush. The journal was written for Mackay's family in Scotland. Daily entries describe the 110 days Mackay spent travelling from Glasgow to Liverpool and his sea voyage to Melbourne aboard the ship 'Mobile' as a steerage passenger with his brother Arthur Mackay and sister-in-law Janet Mackay, between 9 July and 12...
Dates:
1852.
Journal of Lieutenant George Mathias.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7590
Scope and Contents
on Cape and Azores journey to India.
Dates:
1819.
Journal of Lucy Elizabeth Sherwood.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8679
Scope and Contents
During a visit to Glasgow and Edinburgh, and a long stay at Seggieden.
Dates:
1826-1827.