Diaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to books containing the daily, personal accounts of the writer's own experiences, attitudes, and observations. (AAT) Use to refer to all personal diaires, whether by a named individual or not. (NLS) .
Found in 2673 Collections and/or Records:
13 diaries and letterbooks of James Gilliland Simpson, merchant, and his wife Jane née Horsburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12489
Scope and Contents
Includes a related typescript, circa 1985, of John Home Simpson.
Dates:
1800-1851.
African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.
File
Identifier: Acc.11247
Scope and Contents
Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.
Dates:
1885-1886 and undated.
Alpine Excursions., 29 July 1929 - 18 February 1938.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6334/1
Scope and Contents
With leaflets.
Dates:
29 July 1929 - 18 February 1938.
Angling journal of Thomas Stoddart., 1827-1866.
Item
Identifier: MS.10301
Scope and Contents
The journal contains some quotations from Thomas Stoddart's works by William McCallum, and the inverted pages contain 'A collection of poetical effusions', fair copies of verses, most of which were published in ‘Songs and poems’.
Dates:
1827-1866.
Angling journal of Thomas Stoddart., 1867-1880.
Item
Identifier: MS.10302
Angling journals of Thomas Stoddart recording conditions and catches., 1827-1880.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10301-10302
Annotated copy of Archibald Stalker, "Conversation with Himself".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6935
Scope and Contents
Comprising extracts from his diary for 1957-1969.
Dates:
1969.
Annotated typescript translation of the diary of Alexander Amman, Polish Army. Translated by Michael Allan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10077
Dates:
1939-1942.
Appointment diaries belonging to Margaret Ritchie., 1974, 1976, 1978-1983, 1985-1986.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/598-608
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1974, 1976, 1978-1983, 1985-1986.
Appointment diaries, containing some membership cards of libraries, Poetry society, loosely inserted, 1985-1986, 1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.12600/37
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-1986, 1998.
Appointment diaries detailing the professional and personal commitments of James Johnston., 1989.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/464-467
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1989.
Appointment diaries of Ethel Bassin., 1952-1974.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.7040 Box 4(1)-(13)
Dates:
1952-1974.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Professional and personal papers of Ethel Bassin; including papers concerning her biography of Francis Tolmie, 'The Old Songs of Skye' (1977).
/
Diaries and notebooks of Ethel Bassin.
/
Appointment diaries and 'Memo calendars' of Ethel Bassin.
Autobiographical notes and summary diary by Laurence Oliphant of Gask (died 1792)., 1724-1780.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.5
Autobiographical notes, transcribed diary and anecdote of James Wardrop.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5653
Scope and Contents
With diary, 1841-1861, of his daughter, Shirley.
Dates:
circa 1855-1969.
‘Autobiography of a nineteenth century printer’ by Samuel Kinnear, 1878, 1886-1887, with a diary, 1887, and poems, 1888., 1878-1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.1938
Scope and Contents
After an apprenticeship in Glasgow, the author was a printer in Edinburgh from about 1837. His narrative includes accounts of current events, of Edinburgh printers, and of literary and ecclesiastical celebrities, of whom there are many portraits. The illuminated title and dedication were written by James Watson, Writing Master.
Dates:
1878-1888.
Biographical items of Moultrie R Kelsall., 1941-1942, 1952-1952, 1958, 1961, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.7716/5
Scope and Contents
Containing:
Diary notes, November 1952.
Diary notes, undated.
Sheet giving brief details of career.
Account of the coffee house of Moultrie R Kelsall, 1961.
Article by David Tait on Moultrie R Kelsall, undated.
Pages relating to programmes Moultrie R Kelsall was involved with between November 1941 and October 1942.
Pages relating to the files 'Hour of 13', 1951, and 'The Inn of sixth happiness' draft novel, 1958.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-1942, 1952-1952, 1958, 1961, undated.
Biographical papers of and concerning the Geddes family., 1895-1969, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19266-19268
Biographical papers relating to Jan Struther, containing notes, diaries and photocopies., 1920s-1930s, 1989.
File
Identifier: Acc.13220/48
Scope and Contents
Containing: Biographical notes about Jan Struther by her daughter Jan Strutheret
Rance, 1989, intended as guidance for an eventual biographer, and used by Ysenda Maxtone Graham in writing 'The real Mrs Miniver', 2001. Diaries of Anne Meriel Talbot, of Tite Street, Chelsea, born 1899 , died unmarried 1979. Extracts from the 51 diaries kept by Anne mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. Photocopies, and some typed copies, of the several hundred pages which contain remarks or information about the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1930s, 1989.
Biography of James Bonar, compiled by his son.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6536
Scope and Contents
Mostly comprising extracts from Bonar`s diary and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1830.
Bird-watching diary of Tom Weir., 1937.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13059/13
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
1937.
Bird-watching diary of Tom Weir., 1939.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13059/14
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
1939.
Bird-watching diary of Tom Weir., 1941.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13059/15
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
1941.
Bird-watching diary of Tom Weir, of an expedition to Greenland with John Hunt, 1960.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13059/42
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
1960.
Bird-watching diary of Tom Weir of Kinlochquoich., 1936.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13059/11
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
1936.