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 2680 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, speeches, diaries, photographs and papers of Alastair Trevor Clark, mostly relating to his work as a civil servant in Nigeria, Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12598/1-56
Scope and Contents
The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.
Dates:
[1923]-2005, undated.
Daily diaries kept by Margaret Ritchie. , 1976-1986.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/587-597
Dates:
1976-1986.
Dairies of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1736-1797.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17745-17768
Dairy of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick., 1837-1839.
Item
Identifier: MS.1691
Dates:
1837-1839.
Dairy of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick, titled, '3rd volume of Scraps and Nonsensicals'., 1831-1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.1687
Dates:
1831-1833.
Dairy of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick, titled, '4th volume of Scraps and Nonsensicals'., 1833-1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.1688
Dates:
1833-1834.
Dairy of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick, titled, '5th volume, Private Manuscripts, Nothings'., 1834-1836.
Item
Identifier: MS.1689
Dates:
1834-1836.
Dairy of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick, titled, 'Sixth volume of Scraps and Personal Memoranda'., 1836-1837.
Item
Identifier: MS.1690
Dates:
1836-1837.
Dairy of Christopher K Mylne entitled ‘Observations and camera-work on third pair of Scottish Ospreys’ , 28 June 1967-4 July 1967.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14534/2
Scope and Contents
This diary covers the time that Mylne spent at Loch Garten observing and photographing ospreys.
Breeding pairs of ospreys had been extinct in Britain by the beginning of the 20th century, but they ospreys first returned to Loch Garten in 1954, generating much interest. Mylne went in 1967 to record the activities of the third breeding pair and kept this journal of his experiences there.
Dates:
28 June 1967-4 July 1967.
Dairy of Mary Monica Maxwell Scott, daughter of James Robert Hope-Scott., 1867.
Item
Identifier: MS.3695
Deputy Chief of Staff Appointment diary belonging to James Johnston., 1981
File
Identifier: Acc.13818/164
Dates:
1981
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a staff officer and in higher command.
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Papers relating James Johnston on his posting as Deputy Chief of Staff at 4th Armoured Division, British Army of the Rhine.
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Documents relating to the Administration of the 4th armoured division retained by James Johnston.
Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters. , 1931-1941.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9338-9345
Dates:
1931-1941.
Desk diary of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1931.
Item
Identifier: MS.9338
Dates:
1931.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
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Family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson.
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Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters.
Desk diary of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.9339
Dates:
1932.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
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Family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson.
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Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters.
Desk diary of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1934.
Item
Identifier: MS.9340
Dates:
1934.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
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Family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson.
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Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters.
Desk diary of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1935.
Item
Identifier: MS.9341
Dates:
1935.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
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Family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson.
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Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters.
Desk diary of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1936.
Item
Identifier: MS.9342
Dates:
1936.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
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Family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson.
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Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters.
Desk diary of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1937.
Item
Identifier: MS.9343
Dates:
1937.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
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Family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson.
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Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters.
Desk diary of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1938.
Item
Identifier: MS.9344
Dates:
1938.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
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Family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson.
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Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters.
Desk diary of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1941.
Item
Identifier: MS.9345
Dates:
1941.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers, correspondence and family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University.
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Family papers of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson.
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Desk diaries of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson containing short entries by Grierson, mostly notes of appointments and of correspondence, and reminders of family and household matters.
Detailed medical journal kept by the 2nd Earl of Minto to record the treatment of his terminal illness, apparently disease of the prostate., 26 March 1858-2March 1859.
Item
Identifier: MS.12005
Dates:
26 March 1858-2March 1859.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Journals of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto, and their children.
Diaries., 1826-1967.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13718/1-3
Diaries., 1876-1933.
Series
Identifier: Acc.1669/1-15
Scope and Contents
Diaries kept as a student at Osnabrück (1-2) and throughout his military career, both in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (3-6) and subsequently when holding various senior appointments (6-14), and in retirement, until 1933 (15), when increasing blindness forced him to discontinue. Nos 3-15, which consist of groups of three or more diaries re-bound together as a single volume, contain also press-cuttings, snapshots and other ephemera pasted or tipped in.
Dates:
1876-1933.
Diaries, 1832-1865, chiefly of Colonel James Halkett (1822-1870), Coldstream Guards, son of Hugh, Baron von Halkett, describing his service in Britain, Mauritius, India and the Crimea; with correspondence and related material, 1847-1863, concerning several other members of the Halkett family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14200-14219
Scope and Contents
James Halkett was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Mauritius, Sir William Gomm, from 1842 to 1847, and to the Commander-in-Chief of India from 1850 to 1854. He was severely wounded in action in November 1854 and the diary for that year gives particular accounts of the battles he witnessed during the Crimean War.
Dates:
1832-1865, undated.