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Travel journals

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of Lucy Lockhart Galloway.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9336
Scope and Contents

Describes travels in India.

Dates: 1908.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Margaret Aytoun.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7291
Scope and Contents

Describing a tour through Holland, Belgium, the Rhineland and Northern France.

Dates: 1840.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Private William Newman, 3rd Foot Guards, recording his experiences in Egypt, Germany and Denmark.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12054
Dates: 1800-1809.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, describing visits to lighthouses in England, Wales and Ireland on behalf of the Commissioners for Northern Lighthouses.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14576
Dates: 1801-1806
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of the voyage of the whaling ship "Eira" from Peterhead.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8051
Scope and Contents

Including an account of the sinking of the ship off Franz Josef Land and the rescue of the crew.

Dates: 1881.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of travels in the Near East and Greece of

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10121
Scope and Contents

With an illustrated narrative of his residence in Cairo and Jerusalem and additional papers.

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

Journal of William Liddell.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7996
Scope and Contents

Concerning a tour of the United States and Canada.

Dates: 1825.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates: 1836-1863 and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journals and letters describing travels in Germany, sent by Elizabeth Sym to her niece Elizabeth, later Lady Sym.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13032
Scope and Contents

Originals and typed transcript.

Dates: 1871-1872.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journals and notebooks of Patrick Leigh Fermor., 1933-circa 2009.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13338/470-533
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1933-circa 2009.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor. / Personal papers of Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Journals and papers of Rawdon Goodier, largely concerning his activities in Rhodesia between 1955 and 1961.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12397
Dates: 1955-1995.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letters, 1859-1868, of Harriet Miller Davidson and family, with an account of a voyage from Australia to England in 1884 by Lydia Miller Davidson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13697/1-5
Dates: 1859-1884.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents

Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.

Dates: Circa 1966-2013.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript account of a journey by steamer from England to Ecuador, and of travels in Ecuador, by an unidentified author., Circa 1857.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42598
Scope and Contents

The date has been suggested from a watermark of 1857.

Dates: Circa 1857.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Manuscripts by unidentified authors.

Maritime journal of Alexander Gladstone.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13924
Content Description Entitled "Extracts from a journal kept on board the "Medora" on her voyage to the Island of Trinidad in the winter of 1843. By Alexr Gladstone". The extracts were made for an unnamed acquaintance, whom Gladstone asks to guard the volume well so that it does not circulate among acquaintances. - The "Medora" set off from Greenock on 22 November 1843 with six passengers on board, and reached Port of Spain in July 1844. The journal contains many references to the writer's poor health and...
Dates: 1843-1844
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Memoir and journal of a tour to Italy of Charlotte Campbell.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8110
Dates: 1789-1800.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Microfilm copy of 'Journal of a voyage to Lima'.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.497 [Acc.10005]
Dates: 1843.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Notebook of Elizabeth Hume.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5587
Scope and Contents

Containing poems by Hume and others, sketches, and journal of a trip to England and Wales.

Dates: 1816.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Graham Balfour.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9700
Scope and Contents

Largely concerning travels in the United States and in the Pacific Islands, but also concerning the literary remains of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1885-1895.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Hamish Brown

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13518
Dates: 2002-2012
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Lord Pitman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5297
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. travel journals, 1924 and circa 1930, concerning Jamaica and Italy

2. "Tatters: a Memoir", 1937

3. Noelle Reid "A Pleasant Walk to Music Land", 1931

4. letters to Lord Pitman.

Dates: 1924-1937.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Ramsay family, of Ochtertyre.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5386
Scope and Contents

1. three documents, 1723-1748, concerning James Ramsay of Ochtertyre

2. extract of letter, 1762, of Joseph Macdonald (possibly the piper)

3. journal, 1776, of the first part of a journey from Edinburgh to London

4. 18 poems in Latin and three in English, 18th century, many in the hand of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.

Dates: 1723-circa 1799.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Sir Frank Fraser Darling.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11523
Scope and Contents

Includes travel journals (Scotland, United States, Mexico, Zambia, Tanganyika (= Tanzania) and Kenya) and the manuscript of part of a book entitled "Agricultural Principles".

Dates: 1937-1958 and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the Davidson of Muirhouse family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8990
Scope and Contents

Consisting of correspondence, mostly of John H Davidson and his brother Randall, and including the diary, 1884-1885, of John H Davidson`s world tour.

Dates: circa 1860-1905.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the family of Holden of Baldovie.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.11272-is now MS.50266
Dates: 1717-1822.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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