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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:

Papers of James Robertson, civil engineer, including other papers, chiefly correspondence, of members of his family.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10012/1-12
Scope and Contents Correpondence, journals, and photographs of James Robertson, civil engineer, with other papers of members of his family. James Robertson worked on the construction of the Port Patrick Railway, Ayrshire, 1859-60, and then in India, particularly on the G I P Railway at Nagpore, Centra Provinces. He returned to Scotland in 1870 and became a partner in the Milnwood Iron Works, Motherwell.The correspondence, which forms the bulk of this collection, consists largely of letters written...
Dates: 1859-1890, undated.

Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates: Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.

Papers of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson concerning her journeys to India., 1885-1889.

 File
Identifier: MS.20669
Scope and Contents

The associated papers of Jane Burdon-Sanderson, which were formerly loosely enclosed at various places in MS.20668, consist of her original diary of 18 March-1 April 1886, letters 1885, 1888-1889 to her sister Elizabeth, and letters, 1889, of her servant and others to her brother and sisters concerning her death.

Dates: 1885-1889.

Papers of Jessie M King.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6740
Scope and Contents

Comprising drawings, sketchbooks, manuscripts of books and articles, diaires, and correspondence, with letters of Gordon Bottomley and Cecile Walton.

Dates: circa 1899-1949.

Papers of John Blythe Kinross, containing business papers, private correspondence and diaries.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8699/1-58
Scope and Contents Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates: circa 1925-1980.

Papers of John L Broom and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10802
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries, notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of articles and addresses.

Dates: 1912-1992.

Papers of John Telfer Dunbar, costume historian.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12251
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of William Wilson, tartan manufacturer, Bannockburn, circa 1800-1840.

Dates: circa 1940-1990.

Papers of Katie Horsman, potter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11787/1-74

Papers of Mabel Ross, hand spinner and weaver.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11234
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, notebooks, diaries and working papers.

Dates: 1939-1995 and undated.

Papers of Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to the 51st (Highland) Division in the First and Second World Wars.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7380/1-95
Scope and Contents

Maps, accounts, diaries, lectures and other papers, mainly concerning operations, 1942-1943, of the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa and Sicily, together with a smaller quantity of associated post-war correspondence and some papers, 1918, concerning the Division in the First World War.

Dates: 1914-1976, undated.

Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27374-27410
Scope and Contents

The sister of Nancy Brysson Morrison, Margaret M Morrison studied at Glasgow School of Art and trained for the stage before beginning her career in literature.

Dates: 1936-1972, undated.

Papers of Mary Geikie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8887
Scope and Contents

Includes literary and historical notes, a diary and press cuttings concerning her novels.

Dates: 1908-1948.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9201
Scope and Contents

Includes poems, beginning of a novel, two plays, sketches of books, two diaries and paper, "The African Solution".

Dates: circa 1916-circa 1986.

Papers of Peter McOmish Dott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8531
Scope and Contents

Including diaries, notes and essays on socialism and art history and appreciation. With correspondence of Peter M Dott to Eric Dott.

Dates: 1889-1931.