Diaries.
Found in 2591 Collections and/or Records:
Diary of the Countess of Minto., 1927.
Diary of the Countess of Minto., 1929.
Diary of the Countess of Minto., 1936.
Diary of the Earl of Rosebery for April 1873, describing a visit to Paris, the south of France, Milan and Venice., 1873.
Diary of the Final Words of Grizel Nimmo.
Includes notes on her deterioration and administration of the sacrament.
Diary of the Honourable Elsie Cameron Corbett.
The diary contains descriptive daily entries on Corbett's social life around her family's estates in Ayrshire, Scotland and in Chelsea, London, and remarks on contemporary Liberal politics, including the progress of campaigns for women's suffrage. The volume also contains a large number of pasted-in snapshot photographs taken by Corbett and her family in Scotland, and cuttings from London theatre programmes and periodicals.
‘Diary of the late George Bubb Dodington’ (Salisbury, 1784) with pencil notes by the Earl of Rosebery, 1889., 1784, 1889.
Diary of the letters of David Mackenzie for 1943., Undated.
Diary of the letters of David Mackenzie for 1944., Undated.
Diary of the religious thoughts and experiences of Richard Burdon-Sanderson (died 1865), father of Mary E Haldane, kept during April and May 1859., 1859.
The greater part of the volume is blank.
Diary of the Reverend James MacGregor, and of his wife Helen., 1892-1893.
Diary of the Reverend James MacGregor, chiefly in his wife Helen’s handwriting., 1894-1903.
The entries are brief, possibly abridged from a fuller diary. On folios 1-42 are “Prayers and Holy Words spoken in St. Cuthbert’s when I was its Minister", in Dr MacGregor’s handwriting, dated October 1910.
'Diary of the siege of the Castle of St Phillips in the Island of Minorca', 16 April-29 June 1756: an account of the unsuccessful defence of the garrison against the siege by the French., 1756.
Diary of the South African campaign of 1900-1901 kept by Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Herbert George Sotheby of the 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The diary, though silent on the larger issues, is interesting for its first-hand accounts of the raids in which the battalion took part. A list of the battalion's officers and a drawing of Colonel Plumer (later Viscount Plumer) are also included.
Diary of the Very Reverend Ronald Selby Wright, as Radio Padre and Chaplain to the Forces.
With a typed transcript and commentary.
Diary of Thomas Kincaid.
The diary describes Kincaid’s life and medical studies in Edinburgh, and gives his thoughts on a number of topics, particularly golf, archery, music and reading. The pages for January-July 1688 are missing, and folio 83 should follow folio 65. The beginning and end are also missing.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of the Volunteer Review at Holyrood, and of a trip to Strachur in 1860, and to Liverpool in 1861., 1860-1861.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to Annandale, Liverpool, France, and Switzerland in 1855, and to Liverpool 1855-1856 to the death bed of his son, Robert Yule Traill., 1855-1856.
Diary of Thomas Telford, the engineer, contained in “Simpson's gentleman's almanack and pocket journal” for 1833.
The entries, which cover the period 1 January 1833 to 2 January 1834, contain a brief and continuous factual record of Telford's professional business. There are numerous short references to engineering projects with which he was concerned, to letters written, and to persons met. Occasional personal references, to health or reading, also occur, and there are periodic notes of household and other personal expenses.
'Diary of Transactions and Occurrences in a Voyage to Benares in 1773', being an account, with introduction, of Warren Hastings' negotiations with the Nawab Wazir of Oudh, June-October 1773., 1773-1774.
The account is dated Fort William, 10 March 1774, and is attested by James Lawrell and George Vansittart who accompanied Warren Hastings to Benares.
Diary of Una Cameron, mainly relating to climbing in the Alps.
Diary of Valda Grieve., 1963.
Most of the entries are brief notes of Valda Grieve's engagements and of meetings attended by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’. There are some later notes for speeches.
Diary of visits to patients of Dr George Chalmers, together with medical accounts., 1717-1745.
Diary of Walter Scott, farmer at Nether Bonchester, Roxburghshire.
The entries date from Walter Scott's acquisition of the property in May 1730, where an account is given of the conditions of the transaction, and break off in March 1743. They consist of memoranda concerning the management of the farm, such as details of the hiring of labour and the sowing and harvesting of crops, transactions with other farmers, and miscellaneous accounts.