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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:

Private journal of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane., 1807-1849.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2577-2604
Scope and Contents The journal covers Sir Thomas Cochrane's service in Barbados and the West Indies, 1807-1810, 1813, 1815, 1821-1824 (MSS.2577-2578, 2583-2589), on the North American Station, 1815 (MS.2584), in Newfoundland, 1825-1833 (MSS.2590-2595), and on the East India Station, 1842-1846 (MSS.2599-2603), besides his life in Great Britain and visits to France, 1824-1825, 1835-1842 (MSS.2590, 2596-2599), Germany, 1836, 1838 (MSS.2597-2598), and Italy, 1839-1840 (MS.2598). It describes the writer's life...
Dates: 1807-1849.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

Records of the service of the Home Guard (formerly Local Defence Volunteers).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3816-3822
Scope and Contents

The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.

Dates: 1940-1945.

Records, war diaries and other papers concerning the Lothians and Border Horse in the 2nd World War.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11856
Scope and Contents

Includes post war papers, minute books and financial records of the Lothian and Border Horse Regimental Association and its predecessor body.

Dates: circa 1926-1999.

Regimental standing orders, 1796, for the 37th Regiment at Gibraltar.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7127
Scope and Contents

Including:

diary, 1868, of John Maxwell of Baillieston, mostly meteorological

burgess ticket, 1766, of Rutherglen, in favour of Steven Maxwell.

Dates: 1766, 1796 and 1868.

Reminiscences, undated, of Norah, Lady Mears of her childhood., 1895, 1899, [Circa 1905-1906], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19266
Scope and Contents

The reminiscences cover from Lady Mears' life in James Court on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, to memories of summers at Innesforth, circa 1905-1906. There are also typescripts of her diary of the autumn of 1895 (folio 86), and of ‘My Memories of Crawford, July 1899’, by her cousin, Edith (folio 92).

Dates: 1895, 1899, [Circa 1905-1906], undated.

Reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of works of others authors., 1926-1938.

 File
Identifier: MS.50219
Scope and Contents The reviews are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1926.Assorted reviews.Extract, pages 93-94, ‘Notes on Books’, from the ‘Edinburgh Medical Journal’, 1926. The extract includes reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of: ‘Old and New Viewpoints in Psychology’, by Knight Dunlop [i.e. Dunlap]; and, ‘Psychoanalysis and the Psychic Disorder of General...
Dates: 1926-1938.