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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 2093 Collections and/or Records:

Diaries of Captain Richard Pearson kept from April 1854 to July 1855., 1854-1855.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10986-10987
Scope and Contents

The entries are not lengthy, but mention the day-to-day events during this period.

Dates: 1854-1855.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and diaries of Captain (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Richard L O Pearson of the 7th Fusiliers, during the Crimean War.

Diaries of Catherine Mure., 1828-1886.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13678/2-4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers consist of letters and notes on the genealogy of the Mure of Caldwell family, Ayrshire and their relatives the Bloxham family, Banbury, diaries of Catherine Mure, daughter of William Mure of Caldwell (succ.1776) and legal documents of and relating to the Mures of Caldwell and the Bloxhams.

Dates: 1828-1886.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Mure of Caldwell and Bloxham families.

Diaries of Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson, written while attending the British School in Rome., 1910-1911.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.8542/2-3
Dates: 1910-1911.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Photographs of works of Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson, sculptor, with related papers, cuttings and correspondence.

Diaries of Colonel James Halkett, several of which contain rough ink sketches., 1840-1865.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14202-14218
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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: 1840-1865.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / 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.

Diaries of Don and Bridget MacCaskill., 1974-2007.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13709/4-16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, diaries, literary papers and photographs, 1973-2007, undated, of Don and Bridget MacCaskill.Don MacCaskill was an eminent naturalist and forester who pioneered the blending of nature conservation with forestry practice. After his retirement as Chief Forester in Strathtyre and his wife Bridget concentrated on wildlife. They are especially known for their twelve year study of otters at Loch Teacuis on the Rathay Estate and the Eagle Watch project.While...
Dates: 1974-2007.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Don and Bridget MacCaskill.

Diaries of Eliza Baird., 1816-1826.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9856/27-30
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks of speeches, lists and diaries.

Dates: 1816-1826.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Literary papers of David Macbeth Moir ('Delta'), including manuscripts of works by him and others. / Manuscripts by, or in the possession of, David Macbeth Moir, including notes and related papers.

Diaries of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson., 1855-1908.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20151-20182
Dates: 1855-1908.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane.

Diaries of Elizabeth Mantell., 1962-1996

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14298/2-16
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers consist of surviving letters of Elizabeth Mantell to her parents, her diaries covering both periods she spent nursing in Malawi, copies of her mission partner reports collected by her sister, Ruth, and a few ephemeral items.

The letters and diaries are detailed and discuss general life and the family, but also describe Elizabeth’s work in the hospitals. Ruth visited her sister in Malawi on a number of occasions, and her diaries from those visits are included.

Dates: 1962-1996
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Elizabeth Mantell, medical missionary and midwife in Malawi, including letters to her parents, her diaries, and draft reports; also included are diaries of Ruth Mantell, Elizabeth's sister, relating to her visits to Malawi.

Diaries of Elizabeth Oliver, discussing chiefly domestic and social events in India and England., 1905-1946.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24682-24717
Scope and Contents From the Series: Peter Oliver served with Coke's Rifles during the Second World War until his death on active service in Burma in 1945. Included here are papers relating to his army career. However, he is better known as a mountaineer, and particularly as a member of two unsuccessful Everest expeditions in 1936 and 1938. Climbing regularly in the Himalayas and to a lesser extent in the Alps during the 1930s, Oliver's papers are noteworthy for his detailed climbing journals, his articles on mountaineering,...
Dates: 1905-1946.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, and photographs, of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver, 1921-1944, together with diaries and miscellaneous papers of his mother, Elizabeth Oliver, wife of Major Edward Oliver, Veterinary Advisor to the Indian government, 1905-1946, undated. / Papers of and concerning Elizabeth Oliver.

Diaries of Elizabeth S Haldane., 1933-1935.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20197-20199
Scope and Contents

The diaries were produced by London stores as advertisements. Each is interleaved with blotting-paper.

Dates: 1933-1935.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter. / Diaries and notebooks of Elizabeth S Haldane, daughter of Mary E Haldane.

Diaries of General John Fletcher Campbell, recording social, business, and military matters., 1778-1797.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17751-17768
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1778-1797.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun. / Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun. / Dairies of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.

Diaries of General Sir Charles William Pasley covering the years following his retirement from active army service and public employment., 1848-1861.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9869-9878
Scope and Contents The diaries describe Charles Pasley’s regular activities in considerable detail, especially his continued work as public examiner for the East India Company's Military Seminary, Addiscombe College, Surrey, and the experiments at the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on his decked, copper-lined pontoons. Other subjects mentioned include army organisation, railways, revisions of his books on military engineering, decimal coinage, meetings of various learned societies attended, especially...
Dates: 1848-1861.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries, draft biography, and family correspondence of General Sir Charles William Pasley (1780-1861), military engineer.

Diaries of George Friel., 1971-1975.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9248/8-12
Dates: 1971-1975.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of and concerning George Friel and Isobel Friel. / Papers, including typescripts of plays, short stories and poems, with correspondence and diaries, of George Friel.

Diaries of Graham Brown., 1898-1907.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/17-21
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1898-1907.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / The Graham Brown Collection. / Diaries and other personal records of Graham Brown.

Diaries of Graham Brown., 1916-1960.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/23-38
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1916-1960.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / The Graham Brown Collection. / Diaries and other personal records of Graham Brown.

Diaries of Helen B Cruickshank., 1973-1975.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26707-26708
Scope and Contents

The entries in the diaries are very brief, consisting of names of visitors, work done in the house and garden, etc.

Dates: 1973-1975.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Helen Cruickshank (1886-1975).

Diaries of Henry Robert Oswald, junior., 1850-1892.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9004-9040
Dates: 1850-1892.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.

Diaries of Henry Robert Oswald, junior, covering the ten years of his retirement., 1882-1892.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9030-9040
Scope and Contents

The diaries give a day-by-day account of the social and domestic life of Henry Robert Oswald, junior, in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1882-1892.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881. / Diaries of Henry Robert Oswald, junior.

Diaries of Henry Robert Oswald, junior, written in India and Burma., 1854-1891.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9006-9029
Scope and Contents The series of diaries, written in India and Burma, begins in January 1854, and continues in sequence until 1880, with only the volume for the year 1873 missing. After a brief period in the hospital at Bassein in Burma, Oswald was posted in September 1854 in charge of the hospital at Shemogah in Mysore. Apart from a visit on leave to England in 1859, he remained there until 1865. The diaries for this period describe both his social life, including hunting expeditions, and his professional...
Dates: 1854-1891.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881. / Diaries of Henry Robert Oswald, junior.

Diaries of Isobel Wylie Hutchison., 1899-1979, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9713/1-67
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes diaries and photographs.

Dates: 1899-1979, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, containing diaries, drawings, paintings, photographs, newspaper cuttings and other related material.

Diaries of J B S Haldane containing brief notes of meetings, appointments and other commitments., 1934-1958.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20637-20639
Dates: 1934-1958.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway. / Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane.

Diaries of James Naughton Dandie., 1914-1919.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9530/3-21
Scope and Contents

The majority of the diarieswhich describe the author's experiences at the front in France, 1914-1919.

Dates: 1914-1919.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / First World War papers of James Naughton Dandie.

Diaries of James Rannie Swinton., 1838-1888.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13686/1-24
Scope and Contents

Diaries, 1838 –1888, of James Rannie Swinton.

The diaries document Swinton’s career as an artist from 1838 when he studied at the Trustees’ Academy in Edinburgh to his death in London in 1888.

The diaries for 1841-1844, 1846-1850, 1852-1853, 1856-1857. 1860-1862, 1865-1866, 1872, 1876-1880, 1885 and 1887 are missing.

Dates: 1838-1888.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Diaries of James Rannie Swinton and the Swinton family.

Diaries of James Robert Hope-Scott., 1852-1872.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3680-3694
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The leaves that have been foliated are those on which there is actual handwriting. The printed sections and fly-leaves have not been foliated, though writing does occur on some of the latter.

Dates: 1852-1872.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, diaries, and other papers of and relating to James Robert Hope-Scott (1812-1873), of Abbotsford. / Diaries of James Robert Hope-Scott, with one of his daughter, Mary Monica Maxwell Scott.

Diaries of James Robert Hope-Scott, with one of his daughter, Mary Monica Maxwell Scott., 1852-1872.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3680-3695
Scope and Contents

The leaves that have been foliated are those on which there is actual handwriting. The printed sections and fly-leaves have not been foliated, though writing does occur on some of the latter.

Dates: 1852-1872.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, diaries, and other papers of and relating to James Robert Hope-Scott (1812-1873), of Abbotsford.

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