Diaries.
Found in 2591 Collections and/or Records:
Photograph album, 1907-1908, and diary, 1913-1914, of A M Thomson.
The album deals with the cruise of the SS Vedamore, the diary concerns Naval operations at Scapa Flow and in the North Sea.
Photograph of two pages of a diary, concerning the expedition to Faroe and Iceland under the leadership of John Thomas Stanley.
Photographs of a typescript diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward L Strutt, entitled 'Three months of 1919'.
The diary covers the period from February to April 1919, during which Edward Strutt arranged the departure of the Emperor Charles and his family from Austria to Switzerland. The diary is preceded by some notes in typescript by the donor (folio i).
Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.
From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.
Photostat of Sir Walter Scott's Journal: volume I., 1826-1827.
Photostats of manuscripts in Paris, of reports on two missions of Jacques de la Brosse or la Brousse in Scotland., 1543, 1560.
The two reports are as follows:
'Discours des affaires du royaume descosse' by Jacques de la Brosse and Jacques Ménage, 1543, from Bibliothèque Nationale, manuscripts fonds français, number 17890, folios 29-34 (folio 1);
Journal of the Siege of Leith, by an unidentified writer, 1560, from the French Foreign Office, Mémoires et documents, Angleterre, rég. 15, folios 154-182 (folio 15).
Photostats of Sir Walter Scott's Journal.
The original manuscript is in two volumes. Opposite the title page of the first volume are the signatures of Queen Victoria and others of her party who visited Abbotsford on 22 August 1867 (see the Queen's 'More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands', 1884, page 81).