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Diaries.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to books containing the daily, personal accounts of the writer's own experiences, attitudes, and observations. (AAT) Use to refer to all personal diaires, whether by a named individual or not. (NLS) .

Found in 2591 Collections and/or Records:

Diary, 42, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., April-June 1835.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6287
Scope and Contents

The diary contains miscellaneous press cuttings.

Dates: April-June 1835.

Diary, 44, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., September 1835-April 1836.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6289
Scope and Contents

The diary contains miscellaneous press cuttings.

Dates: September 1835-April 1836.

Diary, 1745-1746, of a clerk in the leadmines at Leadhills, with unconnected papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9523
Scope and Contents

Includes:

notes, 18th century, on optics

farm accounts, 1822-1830 and 1843-1859, of Glenholm, Lockerbie

farm accounts, 1818-1829

Dates: circa 1700-1859.

Diary, 1828-1830, of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10702
Scope and Contents

Includes colour sketches and concerns hunting expeditions in India.

With a letter, 1839, of Graham from India to his sister, Mrs Anna Calderwood.

Dates: 1828-1839.

Diary, 1831-1839, of James Gall.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6454
Scope and Contents

With the Gall family bible, 18th century to 19th century.

Dates: 18th century to 19th century.

Diary, 1894-1895, of the Reverend George Douglas Shepherd, compiled while a student at Edinburgh University.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6796
Scope and Contents

With over two hundred letters, 1899, to Shepherd`s family on his death.

Dates: 1894-1899.

Diary and account book, August-November 1769, written by a tutor of Sir John Scott of Ancrum.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9239
Scope and Contents

The writer was probably Alexander Pringle of Whytbank (died 1772), handwriting having characteristics similar to those of MS.9365: Rental of the estate of Whytbank, Selkirkshire.

The volume contains brief notes on the weather and the writer's daily affairs, with particular reference to property in Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, and entries for small items of expenditure.

Dates: 1769.

Diary and account-book of the Reverend Dr Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, of a trip to Buxton, Matlock, and Llangollen, 10 June-21 August 1795, with miscellaneous poems and riddles., 1795.

 File
Identifier: MS.9754, folios 7-25
Scope and Contents

There is also a copy of a commentary on the diary with extracts from it, compiled by T Craig-Brown, and published in ‘The Border magazine’, June 1918, with a related letter, 1918.

Dates: 1795.