Travel literature
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Journal of John Francis Campbell in which he continues his account of his visit to America in 1874 and goes on to describe his travels through Japan, China, Java and Ceylon in 1875., 1874-1875.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.10
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1874-1875.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Journal of John Francis Campbell, kept while travelling in Norway, Russia and Italy, 1873-1874, and illustrated with a number of photographs and watercolours., 1873-1874.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.8
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...
Dates:
1873-1874.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Journal recording John Francis Campbell`s travels between April 1848 and July 1851, describing, in the main, three Scandinavian tours: to Norway and Sweden in 1849, to Sweden in 1850, and to Norway in 1851., 1849-1851.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.16
Scope and Contents
A page from ‘Le Messager’, 21 Avril 1848, has been inserted at the beginning of the journal, which has been left incomplete.
Dates:
1849-1851.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
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.
Original manuscript of ‘A Short American Tramp’ by John Francis Campbell, which records in journal form his travels in North America made from July to November 1864., 1864-1865.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.10
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1864-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Original manuscript of ‘My Circular Notes’ by John Francis Campbell, describing a world tour he made from July 1874 to July 1875., 1875-1876.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.11-50.5.12
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...
Dates:
1875-1876.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Original manuscript of ‘My Circular Notes’ by John Francis Campbell, describing a world tour he made from July 1874 to July 1875; volume I: 1874., 1875-1876.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.11
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...
Dates:
1875-1876.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Original manuscript of ‘My Circular Notes’ by John Francis Campbell, describing a world tour he made from July 1874 to July 1875.
Original manuscript of ‘My Circular Notes’ by John Francis Campbell, describing a world tour he made from July 1874 to July 1875; volume II: 1875., 1875-1876.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.12
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...
Dates:
1875-1876.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Original manuscript of ‘My Circular Notes’ by John Francis Campbell, describing a world tour he made from July 1874 to July 1875.
Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography., 1848-1885.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.7-50.7.8
Dates:
1848-1885.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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.
Photocopy of Marc-Théodore Bourrit, "Direction pour aller à Chamouni..." (1777).
Item
Identifier: Acc.6573
Dates:
1777.
Sketchbook and rough journal of John Francis Campbell combined for 1868 and early 1869., 1868-1869.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.4
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1868-1869.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Thomas Pennant, "Tour in Scotland" (1774), with annotations of Bishop Forbes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5146
Dates:
1774.