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The volumes reflect, in his detailed descriptions, watercolours and sketches, Campbell’s interest in people, art, science and sport. In the later journals, his interest in geology and meteorology predominates, with particular emphasis on the effects of glaciation observed in various countries.

The sketches usually occur in chronological sequence with notes below each giving the date, place and other additional information.

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Campbell requested that these volumes be kept as his journal and for possible publication.

Scope and Contents This volume describes Campbell’s voyage to Bombay, his stay in that city and in Simla. Later notes in Campbell’s hand have been added at the beginning of the volume, dated July 1883, and at the end, loosely inserted, is an introduction to the letters he wrote with a view to their publication. Also loosely inserted are notes he had made before embarking for India on ‘Matters and things common to the far East and far West’ (folio 124).A copy of Campbell’s ‘On Current British...

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In this volume Campbell continues the account of his stay in Simla and describes visits he made to Agra, Lucknow and Delhi from October to December, 1876.

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In this volume Campbell gives an account of his stay in Delhi and his visits to Benares and Darjeeling in 1877.

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The last volume records Campbell’s visits to Calcutta and Madras and his voyage home from Bombay via the Red Sea, Genoa, Turin, the Italian lakes and Mont Cenis.

Several press cuttings and printed items have been placed at the end of the journal, including a copy of Campbell`s ‘On Himalayan Glaciation’, extracted from ‘The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal’.

Scope and Contents The volume begins by describing several visits Campbell made to mines in Wales and the South of England while he was involved in collecting information and witnesses for the Mines` Commission, of which he was Secretary, in 1863 (folios 3-17). There are also a few watercolours made on a visit to Ireland in 1863 (folios 19 verso-30).One or two letters have been inserted in the volume, mainly from Sir Kenneth S Mackenzie of Gairloch and his gamekeeper, 1863-1864, and a few press...

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Other items of interest in the volume include material regarding the marriage of Lord Lorne and Princess Louise on 21 March 1871, and on traction engines.

There are two printed pamphlets by Campbell, ‘On Current British Mythology and Oral Traditions’ and ‘Notes on Glacial Phenomena of the Hebrides’.

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There are a few pen and ink sketches to illustrate the text and a letter to Campbell from Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite pretender, 1846.

On the back board of the volume he has recorded the results of hunting and fishing expeditions made throughout his tour.

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There are detailed accounts of his visits to Spain, Greece, Italy and Switzerland with small watercolour sketches accompanying his description of Spain.

The manuscript is made up of six notebooks of varying sizes bound together.

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The first part of the volume, however, contains correspondence, notes and cuttings concerning the Ossianic controversy and experiments in meteorology with diagrams and notes.

Several printed ‘Proceedings of the Geological Society’ for 1873-1874 are also included (folios 21, 26, 42).

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Other items included in this volume are a letter of Sir Archibald Geikie, 1865 (folio 39), an extract of ‘A Night in a Workhouse’, and extracts from ‘Frost and Fire’ pasted at the end (folios 234 verso-252).

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The volumes reflect, in his detailed descriptions, watercolours and sketches, Campbell’s interest in people, art, science and sport. In the later journals, his interest in geology and meteorology predominates, with particular emphasis on the effects of glaciation observed in various countries.

The sketches usually occur in chronological sequence with notes below each giving the date, place and other additional information.

Scope and Contents Campbell’s description of his visit to Italy dwells particularly on Mount Vesuvius and on the works of art he saw in Rome and Florence.Near the beginning of the volume he discusses Gaelic literature and meteorology with accompanying diagrams and cuttings.A little correspondence for 1874 and several printed items including copies of Campbell’s ‘On the Glaciation of Ireland’ (folio 3) and ‘About Polar Glaciation’ (folio 28) have been inserted at the front of the...

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A page from ‘Le Messager’, 21 Avril 1848, has been inserted at the beginning of the journal, which has been left incomplete.

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The manuscript, which corresponds for the most part with the printed text, has been heavily corrected by Campbell and has several corrected proofs inserted here and there throughout the volume.

Scope and Contents In Adv.MS.50.5.11, the account of Campbell’s visit to America is excluded. It begins at what corresponds to page 159 of the printed version, in the middle of a letter `To a Scientific travelling Chum, From the Antipodes`, but apart from a few other minor discrepancies the manuscript and printed versions correspond.The text of ‘My Circular Notes’ consists of a combination of the author`s journal and letters to his family, particularly his step-mother, 1874-1875. The letters in the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: In Adv.MS.50.5.11, the account of Campbell’s visit to America is excluded. It begins at what corresponds to page 159 of the printed version, in the middle of a letter `To a Scientific travelling Chum, From the Antipodes`, but apart from a few other minor discrepancies the manuscript and printed versions correspond.The text of ‘My Circular Notes’ consists of a combination of the author`s journal and letters to his family, particularly his step-mother, 1874-1875. The letters in the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: In Adv.MS.50.5.11, the account of Campbell’s visit to America is excluded. It begins at what corresponds to page 159 of the printed version, in the middle of a letter `To a Scientific travelling Chum, From the Antipodes`, but apart from a few other minor discrepancies the manuscript and printed versions correspond.The text of ‘My Circular Notes’ consists of a combination of the author`s journal and letters to his family, particularly his step-mother, 1874-1875. The letters in the...

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The first part of the volume deals with a visit Campbell made to Norway from July to September 1868 (folios 14-145) and travels in Scotland and England made from October to December of the same year.

There is also a section on the Kildonan goldrush of 1869 with press cuttings and related correspondence, and at the end of the volume are several pages of notes concerning coal-mining and the Coal Commission.