Diaries.
Found in 2673 Collections and/or Records:
Typescript, undated, of 'Indian diary' by Violet Jacobs., 1922-1923.
Diary of a second visit to India when Violet Jacob and her husband returned to some of the places they had known in 1895-1900. It describes their journey from Port Said to Bhopal and travels to Agra, Mhow, Dhar, and other places. There are lively descriptions of social visits, especially to Sultan Jehan Begum, the ruler of Bhopal, local life, archaeological remains, scenery and plants.
Typescripts and other papers, possibly intended for the 'Alpine journal'., 1786, 1863-1899, 1918-1957, undated.
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
Typescripts of diaries and autobiographical pieces of C Meadmore.
Material concerns life in post-war Edinburgh and holidays in Scotland, and includes three letters of Miss Meadmore to her mother.
Typescripts of diaries of James Francis Hurley
Typescripts of diaries, 1914-1918, of James Francis Hurley relating to Sir Ernest Shakleton`s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition on the `Endurance`. The diaries record the party`s experiences on South Georgia, trapped in the ice on the Weddell Sea, Antaractica, stranded on Elephant Island, their rescue and return to London.
Typescripts of MS.8865: Brief fragment of the journal, 1802, of John Harden, of another fragment, 1806, from a journal of Helen Allan, the sister of Jessy Harden, and of MS.8864: Four letters, 1805-1808, of Jessy Harden and Agnes Ranken., 1802-1808.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Typescripts, with pencil and watercolour illustrations and photographs inserted, of diaries of Violet Jacobs kept while in India, 1895-1923., 1932, undated.
Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.
Various literary papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 18th century-19th century.
Various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Volume begun as a register of confidential letters, kept presumably in an orderly-room, and used by Philip Trotter as a private journal., October 1914-December 1916.
Volume, compiled circa 1822, containing a journal of Alexander Walker of the war with Tipu, 1799-1800, with an appendix made up of copies of official correspondence about the campaign which culminated in the taking of Seringapatam., 1799-1800.
Volume containing diaries and related material of William Gordon Mackenzie, Lieutenant-Colonel in the East India Company., 1800-1838, undated.
The contents are as follows:
(i) List of voyages undertaken by William Gordon Mackenzie, 1800-1838 (folio 1);
(ii) Diaries, 1804, 1806 and 1810, of Mackenzie (folio 7);
(iii) List, undated, of vegetation, plants, etc., met with in India, and on his travels, by Mackenzie (folio 87).
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.
Accession includes:
1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,
2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,
3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.
War diary of Alexander Avon Barnet entitled "The Sailor`s Way" and "Mediterranean Way".
War diary of Lance Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, on the Western Front.
War diary of Lance Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, on the Western Front., 19 January-1 May 1915.
War diary of Lance Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, on the Western Front., 2 May-26 May 1915.
War diary of Lance Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, on the Western Front., 27 May 1915-23 June 1916.
War diary of Lance Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, on the Western Front., 29 June-30 August 1916.
War diary of Major Alastair I Macdougall.
Records Macdougall`s service on the Western Front with the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, later on the General Staff of the 21st Division.
Working papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, including samples of fired ceramics; with papers relating to her published works and thesis.
Recipes, tests, firing schedules, samples, sketches, and other papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, her masters' thesis, and her book, 'Working with lustres'.
Working papers of William Skeoch Cumming, comprising notes, sketches, photographs, and other material collected by him in the course of his work., 1893-1919, undated.
Most of the material is undated and fragmentary in nature. Rough sketches, notes taken from printed books, addresses, accounts, and descriptions of portraits and uniforms are scattered throughout.