Highland. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. Region. Longitude: -5.0000. Latitude: 57.6667.
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
14 volumes of press cuttings compiled by Dr Lachlan Grant concerning social conditions in the Highlands.
'A draught of the Firths of Tayne, Cromartie, [and] Inverness, wt ye true distances as yey do ly.' , [?1636-?1652.]
A map of Scotland, north of Glenmore in detail, and outline of the east coast to Dunbar, showing the courses of the chief rivers, and the positions of a few places., [?1636-?1652.]
Cathenesia descripta ex magna ejusdem charta quam lustravit et descripsit Timoth. Pont. / Opera R. Gordonii ...'., 1642.
Imprint: mense Aprili, 1642.
Circa 500 transparencies and prints of Scottish landscapes, largely the West Coast, Highlands and Aberdeenshire.
Commonplace book containing an anonymous account in verse of "A Tour of the Highlands in 1792".
Diary of a Free Church missionary in Lewis, Skye and the West Highlands.
Illustrated travel journal of Samuel Jolly.
Contains watercolours and pencil drawings of Scottish Highland scenery.
Journal of an un-named law apprentice (later a member of the Faculty of Advocates).
Details his life in Perth and Edinburgh, holidays in the Highlands and Skye, a trip to the Great Exhibition, London, and travels in the south of England.
Letter of Charles J Shore.
Shore describes travels through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Letter of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, to the Lord President of the Privy Council, John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun.
Concerning the maintenance of ministers and schools in the Highlands.
Manuscript map by Clement Lemprière entitled, "A Description of the Highlands of Scotland, the Situation of the Severeal Clans and the Number of Men able to Bear Arms, as also ye Forts Lately Erected and Roads of Communication, or Military Ways carried on by His Majesty`s Command..."
Scale: circa five miles to one inch.
Papers concerning estate management in the highlands.
Comprising:
1. letter book, 1806-1824, concerning the Glenlyon Estate
2. accounts and papers, 1896-1914, concerning Barcaldine
3. ledger, 1848-1854, of Sir Alexander Campbell
4. index, 18th century.
Part of the manuscript of David Stewart, "Sketches of the Highlanders of Scotland".
Photocopies of 15 letters of Seton Gordon to Paul C Spink.
Mostly on weather conditions in the Highlands.
Photocopy of journal of Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech, describing a tour through the Scottish Highlands.
With typed transcript.
Rental of the lands of Kintail, Lochalsh, Loch Carron, and others belonging to Seaforth made for Edwart Burt.
Seven albums of coloured photographs of Skye and the Western Highlands
The photographs are largely views, particularly of mountains and seascapes. They were probably taken on a series of hostelling holidays in Scotland by train. Many of the photographs are taken from the train on the journey from Mallaig to Fort William.