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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:

Photograph album, 1907-1908, and diary, 1913-1914, of A M Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6209
Scope and Contents

The album deals with the cruise of the SS Vedamore, the diary concerns Naval operations at Scapa Flow and in the North Sea.

Dates: 1907-1914.

Photographs of a typescript diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward L Strutt, entitled 'Three months of 1919'.

 File
Identifier: MS.10797
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1919.

Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1812
Scope and Contents

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’.

Dates: 1819-1821.

Photostats of manuscripts in Paris, of reports on two missions of Jacques de la Brosse or la Brousse in Scotland., 1543, 1560.

 File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 1-43
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1543, 1560.

Photostats of Sir Walter Scott's Journal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1531-1534
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1825-1832.

Pocket diaries of Florence Marian McNeill., 1901-1957.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26198-26248
Scope and Contents The diaries record Marian McNeill's social activities and her work as a writer and lecturer and on various conmittees. Most of the entries are brief, and some years are very incomplete. In 1902 she was studying in Paris, where she was visited by friends; MS.26199 contains a fuller description of this visit, and also entries for October of the same year which are missing from MS.26198. After further study in Germany in 1903, she went to Glasgow University, and in 1918 to Edinburgh College of...
Dates: 1901-1957.