Travel literature
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Account by John Farwell junior of his visit to the Osage Indians in Kansas in 1870.
With copies of associated papers and a covering letter.
Account of travels of W Fordyce Brown.
Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.
Anonymous account of a tour in Scotland, with an associated letter.
Author`s copy of James Logan Mack, "The Border Line" (1st Edition, Edinburgh, 1924), printed on rag paper, containing letters and other items tipped or pasted in.
Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world., 1841-1880.
The volumes reflect, in his detailed descriptions, watercolours and sketches, Campbell’s interest in people, art, science and sport. In the later journals, his interest in geology and meteorology predominates, with particular emphasis on the effects of glaciation observed in various countries.
The sketches usually occur in chronological sequence with notes below each giving the date, place and other additional information.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1876.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1876.
In this volume Campbell continues the account of his stay in Simla and describes visits he made to Agra, Lucknow and Delhi from October to December, 1876.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1876-1877.
In this volume Campbell gives an account of his stay in Delhi and his visits to Benares and Darjeeling in 1877.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1877.
The last volume records Campbell’s visits to Calcutta and Madras and his voyage home from Bombay via the Red Sea, Genoa, Turin, the Italian lakes and Mont Cenis.
Several press cuttings and printed items have been placed at the end of the journal, including a copy of Campbell`s ‘On Himalayan Glaciation’, extracted from ‘The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal’.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1876-1877.
Campbell requested that these volumes be kept as his journal and for possible publication.
Copy of Martin Martin, "A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland" (1716), with annotations, 1720, of John Toland.
Corrected manuscript account of Robert Inglis of his ascent of Monte Rosa.
Corrected typescript drafts of Naomi Mitchison, "Mucking Around: Five Continents over Fifty Years" (1981).
Correspondence and papers concerning Richard M D Grange, "A Short History of the Scottish Dress" (1967).
With typescript and illustrations, 1970, for Grange`s unpublished, "What to see on Mull".
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
"Excursion from Friars Carse to Carleverock [sic] made by Robert Riddell of Glenriddell 1787".
Geological sketchbook of John Francis Campbell for the most part containing annotated rock rubbings made on his travels in Great Britain, along with various other geological notes and sketches., 1862-1864.
George Bryson, "Spain, what I saw of it during a Holiday Tour", illustrated with photographs.
Journal and scrapbook of John Francis Campbell combined, kept mainly during his visit to Paris at the time of the Siege in 1871, and while travelling round the west coast of Scotland which is described in letters to his family in August and September 1871., 1870-1871.
Other items of interest in the volume include material regarding the marriage of Lord Lorne and Princess Louise on 21 March 1871, and on traction engines.
There are two printed pamphlets by Campbell, ‘On Current British Mythology and Oral Traditions’ and ‘Notes on Glacial Phenomena of the Hebrides’.
‘Journal of a trip to Carlsbad from July 6 1846 to November’ of John Francis Campbell; however, the diary mainly describes his travels through Austria from Hopfgarten to Vienna., 1846.
There are a few pen and ink sketches to illustrate the text and a letter to Campbell from Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite pretender, 1846.
On the back board of the volume he has recorded the results of hunting and fishing expeditions made throughout his tour.
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing a Mediterranean tour Campbell made while he was still a student at Eton, between 1841 and 1842., 1841-1842.
There are detailed accounts of his visits to Spain, Greece, Italy and Switzerland with small watercolour sketches accompanying his description of Spain.
The manuscript is made up of six notebooks of varying sizes bound together.
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing a tour he made across North America from New York to San Francisco in 1874, illustrated with watercolour sketches and photographs., 1874.
The first part of the volume, however, contains correspondence, notes and cuttings concerning the Ossianic controversy and experiments in meteorology with diagrams and notes.
Several printed ‘Proceedings of the Geological Society’ for 1873-1874 are also included (folios 21, 26, 42).
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing a trip to Norway and Finland from July to September 1865, stressing geological features which interested him., 1865.
Other items included in this volume are a letter of Sir Archibald Geikie, 1865 (folio 39), an extract of ‘A Night in a Workhouse’, and extracts from ‘Frost and Fire’ pasted at the end (folios 234 verso-252).