Travel journals.
Subject
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Found in 773 Collections and/or Records:
“A fortnight's cruise in the Ailsa from June 29 to July 13 1892”.
Item
Identifier: MS.9231
Scope and Contents
An account of a voyage in an RNYC yacht round the Western Islands, by an unidentified author, illustrated with photographs, water-colour drawings, and pen sketches of the party, crew and scenery.
The party includes Jessie, Rae, Fred and cousin A. Rintoul and others.
The crew were Captain Peter MacNichol, Jack MacMillan, John MacAllister, Ronald MacDonald, Malcolm Wilkie and Dugald MacGillivray.
Dates:
1892.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
'A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent' bound with a manuscript tour, 1841, of Thomas Davison Bland of Kippax Hall, Yorkshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14274
Scope and Contents
The volume includes a copy of the 1841 edition of Murray's handbook alongside a handritten account of a tour taken that year, a list of recommended hotels and a summary of travelling expenses.
Dates:
1841
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Account of a voyage from Plymouth to Quebec on board the ‘Cayenne’., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14804
'Account of a voyage to the North West coast of America with observations on the manners of the inhabitants and on the production of that country in 1785 and 1786 by Ensign Walker of the Bombay Army.', 1785-1821.
Item
Identifier: MS.13778
Scope and Contents
This copy of the 'Voyage to America' seems to have been prepared for publication during Alexander Walker's first period of retirement, probably between 1815 and 1821, the original journal having been lost prior to 1815. For the most part this copy is in a hand other than Walker's with revisions by Walker himself as late as 1821.
Dates:
1785-1821.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Various versions of, and other material probably intended as a section of, ‘Voyage to America’ by Alexander Walker.
'Account of the island of St Kilda and neighbouring islands, visited in August, 1799.’
Item
Identifier: MS.3051
Scope and Contents
The visit, which covered the 10-11 August, corresponds in many respects to that paid by Henry Brougham, John Joseph Henry, and Charles Stuart about that time. The account may, therefore, have been written by one of that party, though not by Brougham himself, who landed on the island later than the writer - see folios 4, 91, and “Brougham's life and times” (Edinburgh, 1871), volume i, page 100. From the blanks left for certain words, this appears to be a copy of a less legible...
Dates:
1799.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13651/1-3
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1838-1864, 2013-2014, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Annotated edition of David Livingstone’s journal, 1861-1863, by Vero Bosazza and Rozina G Visram., 1861-1863, 1975.
Item
Identifier: MS.20337
Dates:
1861-1863, 1975.
Anonymous journal of a `Tour in Scotland August 1794`.
Item
Identifier: MS.29491
Scope and Contents
The writer and his companion, Mr Booth, travelled by coach from London to Douglas Mill. From there, they continued on foot to New Lanark and the Falls of Clyde, Chatelherault and Glasgow. They then sailed to Dumbarton Castle, walked to Luss and climbed Ben Lomond, before visiting Inverary Castle and a Highland hut at Tyndrum. The writer walked on alone to Dunkeld, through the Pass of Killiecrankie to Fort Augustus, the Falls of Foyers, Inverness, Culloden Moor, Fort George, Forres, Elgin and...
Dates:
1794
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Anonymous `Observations on a Tour Through Part of Scotland’.
Item
Identifier: MS.29492
Scope and Contents
The writer and his companion, Alexander Brodie, travelled by post chaise and on horseback from London to Newark, Harrogate, Kendal, Penrith and Carlisle. They then rode to Langholm, Hawick and Edinburgh where they spent a week with friends. Their pastimes included visiting the theatre and attending balls. In his journal, the writer comments on Edinburgh society and the habits of its leading citizens. From Edinburgh the companions travelled north to Kinross, Perth, Dunkeld, Blair Atholl, and...
Dates:
1793
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Articles on Labrador, entitled ‘Klondyke gold rush’, with extra copies and a hard written journal of a trip to Cape Dorset in July., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/246
Autograph journal of a tour in the Highlands undertaken by Warren Hastings in 1793 during his impeachment., 1793.
Series
Identifier: MS.19200
Scope and Contents
Warren Hastings journey began and ended in Edinburgh, and among places visited are Stirling, Perth, Loch Tay, Loch Lomond, Loch Long, Glasgow, Paisley, and Lanark. Hastings is shown as a sensitive tourist, responsive to scenery and architecture. He pays special attention to the standard of food and comfort in inns, and gives some space to commercial and economic observations. Little in the journal relates to his public career.
Dates:
1793.
Autograph journal of a tour in the Highlands undertaken by Warren Hastings in 1793 during his impeachment., 13-20 September 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.19200
Dates:
13-20 September 1793.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.
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Autograph journal of a tour in the Highlands undertaken by Warren Hastings in 1793 during his impeachment.
Autograph journal of a tour in the Highlands undertaken by Warren Hastings in 1793 during his impeachment., 20-27 September 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.19201
Dates:
20-27 September 1793.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.
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Autograph journal of a tour in the Highlands undertaken by Warren Hastings in 1793 during his impeachment.
Book files for the journal of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club., 1996, 2004, 2006.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13445/91-93
Book files of the Ernest Press for publications of the the Fell and Rock Climbing Club., 1990-2008, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13445/91-99
Dates:
1990-2008, undated.
Bound journal letters of Robert Graham to his family forming a more detailed account of his tour through Holland and Belgium, Switzerland, Savoy, Italy, the Tyrol and Germany sketched in MS.16047: Draft journal and 'Memorandum book' of Robert Graham of a continental tour, March 1824-March 1825., 1824-1825.
File
Identifier: MSS.16053-16054
Dates:
1824-1825.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Travel diaries, journal letters and papers chiefly of Robert Graham.
Bound journal letters of Robert Graham to his family labelled ‘Italy, 1824-5’., 1824-1825.
File
Identifier: MS.16054
Scope and Contents
The letters from Italy contain detailed description of the antiquities of Rome and Pompeii, and of the architecture and art treasures of Milan, Florence and other cities.
Dates:
1824-1825.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Travel diaries, journal letters and papers chiefly of Robert Graham.
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Bound journal letters of Robert Graham to his family forming a more detailed account of his tour through Holland and Belgium, Switzerland, Savoy, Italy, the Tyrol and Germany sketched in MS.16047: Draft journal and 'Memorandum book' of Robert Graham of a continental tour, March 1824-March 1825.
Bound journal letters of Robert Graham to his family labelled ‘Netherlands and the Rhine, Switzerland & the passes of the Alps, 1824-5’., 1824-1825.
File
Identifier: MS.16053
Dates:
1824-1825.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Travel diaries, journal letters and papers chiefly of Robert Graham.
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Bound journal letters of Robert Graham to his family forming a more detailed account of his tour through Holland and Belgium, Switzerland, Savoy, Italy, the Tyrol and Germany sketched in MS.16047: Draft journal and 'Memorandum book' of Robert Graham of a continental tour, March 1824-March 1825.
Brief and fragmentary diaries kept by John Hill Burton at various intervals between 1827 and 1863., 1827-1863.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9418-9424
Scope and Contents
The volumes consist of a diary of a Highland tour, 1827, and six other diaries of short jottings, chiefly records of appointments and correspondence.
Dates:
1827-1863.
Carbon copy of ‘My diary. The Mediterranean 1890’ by Ian Malcolm, a journal of a tour in a private yacht, the Ceres., 1890.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4304/1
Climbing diary notebooks of Graham Brown., 1927-1954.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/41-94
Dates:
1927-1954.
Climbing diary notebooks of Graham Brown, relating to the Alps., 1932-1933.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/42-59
Dates:
1932-1933.
Climbing journal, June-July 1931, Peter Frederick Oliver of an expedition to the Baspa Valley (in continuation of MS.24660), and June-July 1932 of mountaineering in the Swiss Alps., 1931-1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.24661
Dates:
1931-1932.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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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.
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Papers of and concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver.
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Climbing journals and engagement diaries of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Oliver.
Climbing journal of Peter Frederick Oliver of an expedition to Dharmsala and Dhaola Dhaur in the Kunmaon Himalayas., June-July 1930.
Item
Identifier: MS.24659
Scope and Contents
The journal also contains some line drawings.
Dates:
June-July 1930.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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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.
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Papers of and concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver.
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Climbing journals and engagement diaries of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Oliver.
Climbing journal of Peter Frederick Oliver of an expedition to Gahrwal in the Kunmaon Himalayas during which Oliver failed in an attempt to climb Dunagiri but later made the second known ascent of Trisul., May-July 1933.
Item
Identifier: MS.24662
Scope and Contents
The journal contains diagrams and line drawings showing routes taken on the expedition.
Dates:
May-July 1933.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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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.
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Papers of and concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver.
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Climbing journals and engagement diaries of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Oliver.