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:
General correspondence and business papers, containing journal of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, during his period at Hudson Bay Company, Canada., 1945-1960.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/99
Dates:
1945-1960.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Professional and business correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, containing some material on overseas travel.
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Papers and correspondence of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, relating to Canada.
Greater part of the original diary of Elizabeth S Haldane, from 1910 to shortly before her death in 1937., 1910-1937.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20040-20042
Dates:
1910-1937.
Illustrated diary of a journey through the Trossachs and West Perthshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9166
Dates:
1817.
Illustrated diary of Mary Cumming Bruce.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14228
Scope and Contents
Diary of Mary Elma Cumming Bruce (later Anstruther) from September 1889 to February 1890, which contains details of family, friends and parties during the time she spent mainly in Forres and Dunphail.There are numerous illustrations of members of her circle, local people, landscapes and sketches of various scenes including dancing, women with umbrellas, a game of tiddlywinks, a woman playing the piano and men waiting to vote entitled 'Morayshire voters'.Some of the...
Dates:
1889-1890.
Jane Trefusis's jotting diary and engagement book., 1894.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/399
Dates:
1894.
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.
Journal 1 of William Soutar., 1930-1933.
Item
Identifier: MS.8660
Journal 2 of William Soutar., 1934.
Item
Identifier: MS.8661
Journal 3 of William Soutar., 1935.
Item
Identifier: MS.8663
Journal 4 of William Soutar., 1936.
Item
Identifier: MS.8664
Journal 5 of William Soutar., 1937.
Item
Identifier: MS.8665
Journal 6 of William Soutar., 1938.
Item
Identifier: MS.8666
Journal 7 of William Soutar., 1939.
Item
Identifier: MS.8667
Journal 8 of William Soutar., 1940.
Item
Identifier: MS.8668
Journal, 1815-1818, of Peter Brown, giving a picture of the day-to-day life of a farmer in the Laigh of Moray., 1805-1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.3272
Scope and Contents
At the end are accounts of cash collected from tenants, 1805-1811.
Dates:
1805-1818.
Journal, 1832, of a visit to Sutherland made by Stephen Place, footman to George, 1st Duke of Sutherland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11265
Scope and Contents
Includes another journal of Place, 1870-1871.
Dates:
1832-1871
Journal, 1840-1854, of James Gall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5745
Scope and Contents
With family Bible, containing genealogy, 1766-1825, of James Gall, and his descendants.
Dates:
1766-1854.
Journal, 1857, of Alexander Gibb of Laurencekirk, containing notes on family outings, and on local history and topography, frequently illustrated with plans and sketches.
File
Identifier: MS.9168
Scope and Contents
Loosely inserted (folio 53) is a printed article by Alexander Gibb, on 'The Ballad of Jack Monro', an off-print from the ‘Brechin Advertiser’, 9 February 1904.
Dates:
1857, 1904.
Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-5, of James Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma during the Second World War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13598
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-1945, of James `Jimmy` Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma.James Gordon was born in 1916 in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. A gifted artist and art teacher, Gordon enlisted with the British Army during the Second World War. His journal begins on 10 November 1941, and records daily observations and his thoughts during his journey from the Clyde on board the troopship Aorangi. He describes Freetown, Sierra Leone, in...
Dates:
1941-1945
Journal and accounts of Cape Maclear Mission Station, in various hands., November 1876-March 1880.
File
Identifier: MS.7909
Dates:
November 1876-March 1880.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland.
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Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland).
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Correspondence and papers concerning the Livingstonia Mission of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Journals of Livingstonia Mission Stations of the Free Church of Scotland.
Journal and commonplace book of an inhabitant of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.5270
Dates:
1836-1844.
Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny.
File
Identifier: MS.15393
Scope and Contents
The narrative covers the period from 21 December 1855 to 3 July 1861, but with several gaps, and is followed (folio 131) by a miscellany of notes and memoranda on various topics including moral maxims, medical and household recipes, puzzles and mathematical formulae. From the formality of the layout and handwriting, the photographs and drawings pasted in at various places, and the poems and extracts interspersed in the narrative, it seems likely that this is a fair copy written up at leisure...
Dates:
1855-1861.
Journal and correspondence of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2234-2235
Dates:
1855-1875.
Journal and diaries of Eliza Trotter., 1885-1886, 1918-1925.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20297-20301
Journal and letters of Captain Edward Henry Columbine, Royal Navy.
File
Identifier: Acc.11610
Scope and Contents
Columbine describes places in Northern Ireland and on the west coast of Scotland, the Firth of Clyde and Glasgow, visited while on anti-smuggling duty.
Dates:
1792.
Journal and other papers of James Stuart concerning military events in India., 1782-?1785.
File
Identifier: MS.8432
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Journal, chiefly in James Stuart's hand, from 17 May-27 September 1782, relating events in a military expedition against the French and Hyder Ali (folio 1);(ii) 'Narrative' of events following the surrender of Bidanore, April 1783, and the imprisonment of British officers by Tippoo Sultan (folio 105);(iii) Draft by James Stuart of a memorandum, 1783, in reply to personal criticism in the minutes of the Committee of the...
Dates:
1782-?1785.