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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 584 Collections and/or Records:

`The Bass Rock and Reminiscences of Days spent on it with Harold Raburn [sic] By William Douglas, 1929`.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13446
Scope and Contents

At the back of the volume, are notes on the history of the Bass Rock. A letter of Ruth Raeburn to William Douglas, 1930, press cuttings and articles are pasted in or loosely enclosed.

Dates: 1929 - 1929

The Graham Brown Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4338/1-247
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1877-1962.

'The Journal of a square-peg:' diaries, of John M Reid, the author 'David Toulmin' (born 1913).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26260-26275
Scope and Contents

John M Reid spent much of his life as a farm servant in Aberdeenshire, writing in his spare time. As well as recording day-to-day events on the farm, his diaries contain comments on books and films, reflections on current affairs, copies of letters and reminiscences of his earlier life. He later revised the diaries for publication, making additions and deletions.

Dates: 1946-1956.

Three diaries of members of the family of Graham-Moir of Leckie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8146
Scope and Contents

The diary for 1803 describes an archaeological tour in Sicily.

Dates: 1803, 1853-1856.

Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.23625-23628
Scope and Contents

Emily Jackson`s journal of her tour in Italy includes an account of a holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1887.

Dates: 1884-1892.

Tour of the Scottish Highlands, of R. Geddes.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14242
Scope and Contents

Internal evidence suggests that the tour was undertaken between 1834 and 1861.

Dates: Mid 19th century.

Transcript, circa 2007, of a diary kept by Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Gavin R V Hume-Gore, 1st Gordon Highlanders, 1914.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12782
Scope and Contents

Includes transcripts of related documents, 1914-1918, and a copy of a photograph of Hume-Gore.

Dates: circa 2007.

Transcript of parts of volumes xiv-xxiv, xxvi-xliii, of the diary of Archibald Johnston of Warriston.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6247-6259
Scope and Contents

The transcript, though incomplete, contains, in addition to the material used in the printed text, prayers, religious meditations, and particulars of the health and establishment of Archibald Johnston's family.

Dates: 1655-1661.

Transcript of the diaries of Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12121
Scope and Contents

Robertson discribes his artwork and other activities, and artistic life in Edinburgh. Includes indexes to the diaries and biographical notes on persons mentioned in the text.

Dates: 1907-1924.

Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents

Includes:

"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934

letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell

verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.

Dates: 1934-1964 and undated.

Typescript copy of an incomplete diary of Charles McKelvie, Isca, near Campbeltown.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6937
Scope and Contents

Describing journey on S S Dunedin, with his sister, as an emigrant to Port Chalmers, New Zealand.

Dates: 1879.

Typescript copy of diary of Captain D P Apthorp, Royal Norfolk Regiment.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9676
Scope and Contents

Concerns time as prisoner of war of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Dates: 1942-1945.

Typescript copy of journals kept by John Borland, emigrant to the USA.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14314
Scope and Contents The typescript, compiled by Borland's granddaughter Chloe Kearns, comprises a copy of Borland's reminiscences about his early life in Scotland and the lives of his children, apparently written on or after June 1882, and a copy of Borland's journal of his passage from Stewarton, East Ayrshire, to the United States of America, followed by a trip up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis, in 1843. With photographs of John Borland and his wife Mary Borland, née Jamison, and...
Dates: 1843, 1882

Typescript of journal of Jane Blackwood Mack concerning her childhood in Australia.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9754
Scope and Contents

With a map of Berry Bank estate, Victoria, Australia.

Dates: mid 19th century.