Travel journals
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:
"Short Minites of my journey to Scotland in August 85", notes on a tour by George Wood and George Pearson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12963
Scope and Contents
Tour of the Lowlands of Scotland (including Kelso, Dalkeith, Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Falkirk, Stirling, Glasgow, Loch Lomond, Moffat and Lockerbie) begining at Alnwick. The author of the journal is probably George Pearson.
Dates:
1785.
Sketchbook of Horatio Seftenberg Ross of sporting scenes in Scotland and England and maps of Highland sporting estates. With a journal of a tour in North America with his father, Horatio Ross, 1847-1850, undated
Item
Identifier: Acc.13765/2
Scope and Contents
The numerous pen and ink and watercolour drawings include shooting, fishing, deer-stalking, sailing, Highland Games, horse-racing, boxing, military, smuggling and an Edinburgh street scenes. With maps of the Gledfield and Craigdarroch estates and There are also watercolour drawings of The Hibernian on which the author and his father crossed the Atlantic on their visit to North America
Dates:
1847-1850, undated
Sketchbook of `Pencil sketches to commemorate my journey to Scotland in the summer and autumn of 1846.`
Item
Identifier: Acc.13646
Scope and Contents
Julius Jacob the Elder (1811-1882) was a German Jewish artist born in Berlin who lived in London between 1844 and 1855. He is known both for his landscapes and society portraits.The sketchbook contains more than 150 pencil sketches of a tour in Scotland from August 1846 to February 1847. Almost all the sketches are dated and identifed. The earliest sketch is of the Isle of Arran. He then moved on to Greenock, Loch Long, Loch Lomond, Inverary, Loch Awe, Fingal`s Cave and Staffa,...
Dates:
1846-1847
Sketchbooks of Lucinda Mackay, [?1970]-2012
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.50735-MS.50764
Scope and Contents
A series of 30 sketchbooks comprising primarily of ink, pencil, and crayon drawings with a small number containing watercolour paintings. The majority of individual images are undated and untitled. Where contextual detail exists this has been recorded in item descriptions. Sketchbooks contain representations of everyday life in Edinburgh and London, with 7 sketchbooks representing the artist's international trips to Lausanne, Switzerland; and Taipei, Taiwan in 1982; Istanbul, Turkey in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [?1970]-2012
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
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Papers of Lucinda Mackay relating to her artistic practice, writing, and teaching
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Papers of Lucinda Mackay relating to her artistic practice
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Original sketchbooks and portfolios of loose artworks by Lucinda Mackay
Sound recordings of travelogues originally prepared to accompany a picture presentation by amateur photographer, and employee at St Andrews University, Mr Henry White.
Collection
Identifier: UNLS039
Dates:
1988, or before.
Three European travel journals of Sir John Peter Boileau.
File
Identifier: Acc.11390
Dates:
1816, 1834, 1842.
Three notebooks and a typescript diary of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10807
Scope and Contents
Concern travels in Botswana.
Dates:
circa 1965-circa 1982.
Three volumes of the journal of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, describing his service in Spain, the Low Countries, and in the Penninsula and South-West France.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12037
Dates:
1808-1813.
Tours of Scotland and England by A L.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10285
Scope and Contents
Locations include: Edinburgh, Stirling, Glasgow, Loch Lomond, the Clyde canal, the English Lakes, via Hawick and Langholm and the Highlands.Account of 1785 tour to Edinburgh and around Glasgow begins at Berwick. The author travels with Mr Heron. Account of 1786 tour of the English Lakes accompanied by Mr Heron, Mr Ruddock and Mr Wilson, begins at Berwick.Account of the 1788 tour to the Highlands begins at Alnwick. The author travels to Edinburgh where he...
Dates:
1785-1788.
Transcript, 1893, of the manuscript journal, 1736-1737, of Dr Alexander Cunyngham, later Sir Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, made on his Italian journey with Allan Ramsay, painter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12078
Scope and Contents
Includes material not printed in "Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest" (1897).
Dates:
1893.
Transcript of the journals of John Mair.
File
Identifier: Acc.6748-is now MS.50267
Scope and Contents
Concerning travels in the West Indies.
Dates:
1776-1791.
Travel diaries of T S Thomson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6856
Scope and Contents
Concerning trips to Switzerland, 1885, Spain, 1887, Tyrol, 1890, and Egypt, 1903.
Dates:
1885-1903.
Travel diary of an unknown Scotsman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8518
Scope and Contents
Describes travels through the Low Countries, Germany and Switzerland, with companion James Skene of Rubislaw.
Dates:
1802.
Travel journal, in French, of Paul Cramer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4438
Scope and Contents
Detailing tour to Mont Blanc, Val d`Aoste, and Vallée de Zermatt.
Dates:
1855.
Travel journal, in three volumes, of Mary Pringle, recording travels in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the Low Countries.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12128
Dates:
1819-1821.
Travel journal of Emily Jackson containing an account of her holiday to Kilmorack, Scotland, 1887, and a tour in Italy with her family, 1891-1892., 1887, 1891-1892.
Item
Identifier: MS.23628
Scope and Contents
Emily Jackson departed from Edinburgh on 18 August 1887 with her sisters Ina, Jane, Joanna and Alice Maule, and travelled to Kilmorack Manse, Inverness, where they stayed until 21 September 1887. Narrative of Italian tour starts on 4 December 1891 after the family arrived in Rome until their departure on 9 February 1892. The narrative restarts on 7 April when the family travelled to Venice finishing on 22 April. There are a number of lists at the back of the journal...
Dates:
1887, 1891-1892.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.
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Journals, 1891-1892, of a tour in Italy by John Jackson, Craiglands, Edinburgh, and his daughter Emily. Also included is Emily`s account of her holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, 1887.
Travel journal of Francis Jeffreys in the United States.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11099
Scope and Contents
Covers visits to New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other places, and contains an account of Jeffreys` discussions with President Madison and Secretary of State Monroe.
Includes typed transcript of Sir Denis Brogan.
Dates:
1813.
Travel journal of John Jackson of a tour to the Continent., 1891-1892
Item
Identifier: MS.23627
Scope and Contents
John Jackson and his family left Edinburgh on 31 October for Glasgow to sail on the S.S. Columbia bound for Gibraltar. They travelled to Genoa, Leghorn (Livorno), Castellammare, Naples, Pompeii and Rome where they stayed for two months visiting Roman antiquities. They journeyed to Siena, and Florence, where the narrative stops on 16 March 1892.
Dates:
1891-1892
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.
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Journals, 1891-1892, of a tour in Italy by John Jackson, Craiglands, Edinburgh, and his daughter Emily. Also included is Emily`s account of her holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, 1887.
Travel journal of Thomas Thomson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6399
Scope and Contents
Describing a tour in England.
Dates:
1831.
Travel journal probably of William Edward Baxter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10382
Scope and Contents
Records a tour through France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy.
Dates:
1844.
Travel journals and photographs of Elizabeth Sandford.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12437
Dates:
1951-1987 and undated.
Travel journals of Robert Sym WS recording visits to Paris, the Low Countries and Northern France, and Hamburg.
File
Identifier: Acc.12708
Scope and Contents
Includes a printed map of Paris and typed transcript.
Dates:
1802-1819.
‘Travels in Palestine, May 1876: an extract from the furlough diary of James Simson, Commissioner of Allahabad, Bengal Civil Service’, including a description of a similar visit by Colonel Alexander M. Simson, May 1964.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13683
Scope and Contents
An extract from the travel diary of James Simson, Commissioner of Allahabad with the Bengal Civil Service, on a trip to Palestine. This extract is taken from a more extensive diary written by James Simson when, on his return to Scotland from India on furlough in 1876, he broke his journey with a visit to Palestine. He records visits to Baalbek, Damascus, Ephesus and Corinth, and then the outline of his sea trip to Constantinople, before travelling on to Scotland by train.The...
Dates:
1876, 1964
Two travel journals of members of the family of Macadam of Craigengillon, Ayrshire, recording visits to France and Switzerland.
File
Identifier: Acc.12761
Dates:
1788-1818.
Two volumes recording travels in France, Corsica, Italy, Belgium, Germany and Austria.
File
Identifier: Acc.13024
Scope and Contents
With another volume of cuttings "Continental Articles" from the Edinburgh Evening Courant, published under the name of "An Occassional Correspondent".
Dates:
1853-1862.