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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:

Journal of Sir Walter Scott, printed, on one side of the sheet only, pages 61-437, from 9 February 1826 to 13 April 1831., 1826-1831.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1570
Scope and Contents

The journal has evidently been printed from the copy in MS.1569, corrected in manuscript from Sir Walter Scott's original, and used by John Gibson Lockhart in writing the ‘Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet’ (Edinburgh, 1837). A note on page 60 (folio 1) states that all preceding pages have been sent to Mr Morritt.

Dates: 1826-1831.

Journal of Sir Walter Scott, with letters and other papers.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3389
Scope and Contents The journal, printed, as in MS.1570, but covering the period from 20 November 1825 to 13 April 1831, and other material collected by John Gibson Lockhart for the ‘Life’, all printed on one side of the page, with manuscript corrections of the text, chiefly typographical.The material other than the journal consists of Mrs John Davy's Malta journal, 1831 (folio 437); letters of Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Scott of Harden, 1832 (folio 444 verso), and others, 1828-1830 (folio 448 verso);...
Dates: 1825-1832.