Travel literature
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Liber maundevyle` (folio 1). The manuscript belongs to sub-group E of the Defective Version on which the earliest editions were based (`English manuscripts of Mandeville`s Travels`, pages 169-171). Several leaves are missing, containing the end of the prologue and beginning of chapter 1 (after folio 1), chapters 6-9 (after folio 10), and the end of chapter 32 onwards.(ii) `Sir Cleges` (folio 71). ‘The Index of Middle...
Dates:
15th century.
Account by John Farwell junior of his visit to the Osage Indians in Kansas in 1870.
File
Identifier: Acc.6852
Scope and Contents
With copies of associated papers and a covering letter.
Dates:
1942.
Account of travels of W Fordyce Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9773
Scope and Contents
Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.
Dates:
1882-1884.
Anonymous account of a tour in Scotland, with an associated letter.
File
Identifier: Acc.8087
Dates:
1845.
Author`s copy of James Logan Mack, "The Border Line" (1st Edition, Edinburgh, 1924), printed on rag paper, containing letters and other items tipped or pasted in.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7232
Dates:
1922-1930 and undated.
Copy of Martin Martin, "A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland" (1716), with annotations, 1720, of John Toland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7999
Dates:
1716-1720.
Corrected manuscript account of Robert Inglis of his ascent of Monte Rosa.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5463
Dates:
1858.
Corrected typescript drafts of Naomi Mitchison, "Mucking Around: Five Continents over Fifty Years" (1981).
File
Identifier: Acc.7848
Dates:
1981.
Correspondence and papers concerning Richard M D Grange, "A Short History of the Scottish Dress" (1967).
File
Identifier: Acc.9822
Scope and Contents
With typescript and illustrations, 1970, for Grange`s unpublished, "What to see on Mull".
Dates:
1967-1970.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
"Excursion from Friars Carse to Carleverock [sic] made by Robert Riddell of Glenriddell 1787".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6609
Dates:
1787.
George Bryson, "Spain, what I saw of it during a Holiday Tour", illustrated with photographs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6942
Dates:
circa 1881.
Letters and copies of letters to Hamish Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.12253
Scope and Contents
Includes Don Johnson`s account of a journey from Land`s End to John O`Groats, 1994, text of a talk by Sir Alasdair T Munro on "Hugh Munro and his Tables", 1994, and Nigel Springett`s account of a visit to India, 1989.
Dates:
1989-1994.
Literary papers of Tom Pow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents
Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates:
1969-2003.
Manuscript of Hamish M Brown, "Scotland: Coast to Coast".
File
Identifier: Acc.9999
Scope and Contents
With papers of the first ten years of the Ultimate Challenge, an annual walk across Scotland.
Dates:
1980-1989.
Manuscript of the first half (pp 1-108) of William E Baxter, "A Winter in India".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6560
Dates:
1882.
Manuscript revisions by Robert McLellan for "The Isle of Arran" (2nd edition, 1976).
File
Identifier: Acc.9625
Dates:
circa 1976.
"Notes of an excursion from York to Edinburgh... and return by a few of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6793
Scope and Contents
The author of this anonymous manuscript is probably George Todd of York.
Dates:
1817.
"Observations on Egypt, Syria and Greece made during a three years cruise in HMS Myrmidon", an account by George Sibbald, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12668
Dates:
? 1816-1818.
Papers of Hamish Brown.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9762
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of "Hamish Brown`s Scotland" (1988), "Climbing the Corbetss" (1988) and "Speak to the Hills" (1985).
Dates:
circa 1980-1988.
Papers of Hamish Brown.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9801
Scope and Contents
Concerning "Hamish`s Mountain Walk" (1974) and "Rhum" (1972)
Dates:
1972-1974.
Photocopy of "A Summer Ramble" through the Borders of Scotland by Katharine Jane and Elizabeth Scott Moncrieff.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8573
Dates:
circa 1860.
Photocopy of "Glen Garry and some Islands", Michael Barnard`s account of his visits to Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12240
Dates:
1965-1984.