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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:

Microfilm of South African diary of C Forsyth.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2073
Dates: [?1st half of 20th century.]

Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant. Reel 16. Diaries, reminiscences, and ‘Jerusalem’., Late 19th century.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1225
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Diary, 1883, of Margaret Oliphant (MS.23213);Diary, 1887, of Margaret Oliphant (MS.23214);Diary, 1888, of Margaret Oliphant (MS.23215);Diary, 1896, of Margaret Oliphant (MS.23216);Manuscript, [1891, or before], 1896, of 'Jerusalem its history and hope' by Margaret Oliphant. (MS.23217);Manuscript, late 19th century, of reminiscences of Margaret Oliphant (MS.23218);Manuscript, late 19th...
Dates: Late 19th century.

Microfilm of 'Tome I' and 'Tome II' of the diaries of Alexander Bannerman, 7th Baronet of Elsick.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1021
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Tome I, memoir et notice genealogique de la famille de Bannerman de Elsick....1769-1830' (MS.1685);

Tome II, contenant traits characteristiques et biographicales de M M les contemporaries jusque à 1830' (MS.1686).

Dates: 1824-1830.

Microfilm of two account books, the first 1843-1859 and (inverted) 1822-1830, the second 1818-1829, of the farm of Glenim, Dumfriesshire.

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Identifier: MS.15554 [Mf.MSS.46]
Scope and Contents

One of the account books also contains the diary of a clerk in the lead-mines at Leadhills, June-December 1745, and July 1746, and notes on optics, 18th century.

Dates: 18th century, 1818-1859.

Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 2., 1763-1873.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1313
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Correspondence, 1763-1873, of Lady Nairne, of her literary correspondent Helen Walker, and of the Stewart of Bonskeid and Sandeman families (MS.980);  

Journal, 1789-1823, of Lady Nairne (MS.981A).

Dates: 1763-1873.

Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 3., 1802, 1830-1845.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1314
Scope and Contents

Journal, 1830-1841, of Lady Nairne (MS.981B);

Journal, 1836-1845, of Lady Nairne (MS.981C);

Journal, 1802, of Mrs Stewart of Bonskeid (MS.982).

Dates: 1802, 1830-1845.

Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 4., 1789-1847.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1315
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Journals, 1789-1808, of Mrs Steuart of Dalguise (MS.983);

Journals, 1831-1847, of Mrs Keith of Ravelston (MS.984).

Dates: 1789-1847.

Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 5., 1658-1812.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1317
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Miniature portrait of Marjory Fleming, inscribed on a label on the back of the case 'Pet Marjory, from her sister Miss Fleming, 1880' (MS.1096);Diaries, [before 1812], of Marjory Fleming (MSS.1097-1099);Letters and poems of Marjory Fleming; letters of her mother, and of her cousin Isabella Keith, 1811-1812, undated (MS.1100);'Extracts from Mrs. Fielding's journal while we were abroad together in 1781', made by the Honourable...
Dates: 1658-1812.

Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 6., Mid 17th century-[1817, or after].

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1318
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, [1817, or after], of part of the ‘Autobiography’ of Mrs Eliza Fletcher (1770-1858), chiefly in the hand of the author (MS.3758);

'Meditations', [v], mid 17th century-late 17th century, by Anne Lady Halkett (MS.6489);

'Meditations', [vi], 1658-1659, by Anne Lady Halkett. (MS.6490).

Dates: Mid 17th century-[1817, or after].

Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 7., 1660-1675.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1319
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: 'Meditations', [vii], 1660-1663, by Anne Lady Halkett (MS.6491);

'Meditations', [ix], 1667-1670, by Anne Lady Halkett (MS.6492);

'Meditations', [x], 1673-1675, by Anne Lady Halkett (MS.6493).

Dates: 1660-1675.