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, XIX, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh, containing an account of a sea-trip to the Irish coast., August-September 1831.
Item
Identifier: MS.6272
Scope and Contents
The diary contains drawings of cross-sections of islands visited on the Irish trip (folios 26 verso, 33 verso-34, 38 verso).
Dates:
August-September 1831.
Diary, XV, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., March-May 1831.
Item
Identifier: MS.6269
Dates:
March-May 1831.
Diary, XVI, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., May-June 1831.
Item
Identifier: MS.6270
Scope and Contents
Inserted in the diary are miscellaneous press cuttings.
Dates:
May-June 1831.
Diary, XVII, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., June 1831.
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Identifier: MS.6271
Dates:
June 1831.
Diary, XX, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., October-December 1831.
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Identifier: MS.6273
Dates:
October-December 1831.
Diary, XXI, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., January-February 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.6274
Dates:
January-February 1832.
Diary, XXIII, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., April 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.6275
Dates:
April 1832.
Diary, XXIX, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., June-July 1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.6279
Dates:
June-July 1833.
Diary, XXV, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., June 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.6276
Dates:
June 1832.
Diary, XXVI, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., July-September 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.6277
Scope and Contents
There is a catalogue of the "Religious Tract Society" inserted at the beginning of the diary.
Dates:
July-September 1832.
Diary, XXVIII, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., March-June 1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.6278
Scope and Contents
Inserted in the diary are miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, and a note dated April 1831.
Dates:
March-June 1833.
Diary, XXX, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., September-November 1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.6280
Scope and Contents
Inserted in the diary are pages of notes, one dated 24th January 1828.
Dates:
September-November 1833.
Diary, XXXI, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., November-December 1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.6281
Dates:
November-December 1833.
Diary, XXXIII, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., January-March 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.6282
Dates:
January-March 1834.
Diary/Commonplace book., Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/398
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Forbes Family Notebooks.
Digital archive of literary and personal papers of Christopher Whyte.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13746
Dates:
2013-2016.
Disbound portions of journal of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 11 December 1853, 16 June-29 October 1854.
File
Identifier: MS.12001
Scope and Contents
With the exception of the brief note of 1853 recording the alleged brigand ancestry of Cardinal Antonelli, the journal records events at home, and includes further analysis of the political position of Russell.
Dates:
11 December 1853, 16 June-29 October 1854.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Journals of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto, and their children.
Disbound portions of journal of the 2nd Earl of Minto, formerly loose in MSS.11978 and 11800., 1816, 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.11979
Scope and Contents
The entries for 1816 relate to Switzerland, those for 1819 to political and personal affairs at home.
Dates:
1816, 1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Journals of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto, and their children.
Documents relating to the Administration of the 4th armoured division retained by James Johnston., 1981-1984
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/162-165
Dates:
1981-1984
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a staff officer and in higher command.
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Papers relating James Johnston on his posting as Deputy Chief of Staff at 4th Armoured Division, British Army of the Rhine.
Documents relating to the Episcopal Church of Scotland and copies of papers relating to the rising of 1745., 1739-1746, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1916
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'A short narrative of the occasion, rise, progress, & administration of the . . . Fund . . . for Relief of the Indigent Episcopal Clergy in Scotland and their Widows', with a copy of Bishop David Freebairn's commission to the collectors, dated 1739 (folio 1);(ii) List of the Episcopal clergy possessed of cures in Scotland at the Revolution (folio 7);(iii) Narratives of the Jacobite rising of 1745 (copies), preceded by...
Dates:
1739-1746, undated.
Drafts and typescripts of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘Psychoanalysis in relation to attitudes of Doctors’; ‘Religion and fantasy’; ‘A case of religious fantasy’; and, ‘Head – aphasia’., Circa 1925-1927.
File
Identifier: MS.50171
Scope and Contents
The articles and papers are arranged chronologically.Circa 1925.‘Psychoanalysis in Relation to Attitudes of Doctors’.Manuscript notes, circa 1925, of an article, ‘Psychoanalysis in Relation to Attitudes of Doctors’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The article was submitted to the ‘Edinburgh Medical Journal’, but would appear not to have been published. Folios 1-6.Folios 1-2 loosely enclosed folios 3-6.1927.‘Religion...
Dates:
Circa 1925-1927.
Drafts of letters, miscellaneous notes and part of a diary of John Hill Burton, and transcripts of letters of David Hume and Dr Alexander Carlyle., 1770-1881, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9427
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts, circa 1840-1880, undated, of letters of John Hill Burton to various people, including Lord Brougham and Sir James Gibson Craig. These also include transcripts of three letters of David Hume, 1770-1776, and one of Dr Alexander Carlyle, 1805 (folios 23-25, 70). (Folio 1.)(ii) Miscellaneous undated notes, including probably some of Burton's last written words; notes for ‘The book hunter’ (London, 1860) and ‘Queen Anne’ (London,...
Dates:
1770-1881, undated.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
East Farm diary in a copy of "Campbell's condensed scribbling diary"., 1884.
Item
Identifier: MS.17235
Scope and Contents
The diary is kept to April only.
Dates:
1884.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Estate papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning Saltoun estate.
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Account-books concerning Saltoun estate.
"Edinburgh Almanack" (1766), with manuscript diary and notes of James Camichael.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5775
Dates:
1766.