Travel sketches.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Album of sketches in watercolour and in pencil and wash, made during a tour in Scotland from July to September 1823.
The sketches have not been mounted in chronological sequence, and appear to have come from two sources. The wash drawings are probably from a sketchbook, and the watercolours have been cut from a journal of the tour. The artist, who was English, travelled from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs to Inveraray, Staffa, Glencoe, Killin, and back to Loch Lomond. Inserted at the end are sketches of Edinburgh and Carlisle, a drawing, 1820, of Killarney and other unrelated material.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Microfilm of journals of John Francis Campbell, 1841-1842; and, Matthew Boulton Rennie, 1831, describing visits to Spain.
The contents are as follows:
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing his time in Spain during a Mediterranean tour Campbell made while he was still a student at Eton, between 1841 and 1842 (Adv.MS.50.3.14, folios 18-86, 287-440);
Journal, 1831, of Matthew Boulton Rennie of a visit to Spain (MS.19949).