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Logs. Records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records in which are entered sequential data, especially about activities or transactions that occur in a system.

Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

Copy by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne of the log-book of Captain John Anderson for 1640 to 1643.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.14
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in a Dutch printed pilot`s log-book, and the final entry and postscript are signed by Anderson (folios 79-80).In December 1640, Anderson, an experienced seaman, sailed as navigator in a Dutch ship bound from Holland to Java. From July 1641 to May 1642, he was with the Dutch fleet blockading the Portuguese off the coast of Goa, and in December 1642 he returned to Holland. His log consists chiefly of a record of distance covered, wind direction, land...
Dates: 1640-1643.

Deck logs and Day's Works., 1842.

 File
Identifier: MS.2481
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1842.

Deck logs and Day's Works., 1843-1845.

 File
Identifier: MS.2482
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1843-1845.

Deck logs and Day's Works., 1846-1847.

 File
Identifier: MS.2483
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1846-1847.

Deck logs and Day's Works, undated., [1842-1847.]

 File
Identifier: MS.2484
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: [1842-1847.]

Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Maitland., 1815-1839.

 Series
Identifier: Dep.353/1-11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1815-1839.

Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

File originally labelled ‘John McGrath’s own’, containing: log-book, 1978; general correspondence, 1972-74; press-cuttings, mostly 1981; draft letters with letter of resignation of John McGrath from 7:84 and ‘Statement about why 7:84 was formed’, both undated; and agenda for company meeting, August 1977., 1972-1974, 1977-1978, 1981, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10893/418
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Aside from, though related to, his work with 7:84, John McGrath was involved in the study of political theatre, and was himself the subject of many articles, papers and dissertations. Much of the material listed in this section falls into this category, though there is also some that might equally well have been incorporated into the main 7:84 sequence, and vice-versa. There is some overlap with, and duplication of, items in the main sequence.

Dates: 1972-1974, 1977-1978, 1981, undated.

Four log books compiled by Wing Commander Noel J Capper, Royal Air Force.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9675
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning flying carried out at Number 12 Elementary Flying School, Prestwick.

Dates: 1936-1941, 1947-1948.

Hunting journal of the 4th Earl of Minto., September 1887-March 1889.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13230
Scope and Contents From the Series: The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates: September 1887-March 1889.