Journals. Accounts.
Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:
Journal of James Henderson of Glasgow descibring his voyage to New Zealand on the 'Lady Ruthven'.
The journal is comprised of descriptive daily entries including observations on the ship, its crew, and the other passengers in steerage; and a postscript written upon arrival in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Journal of James Robertson of Cairness, Zante and Argos.
While at Argos from 1828 until 1831 Thomas Gordon, James Robertson, and the historian George Finlay worked on the site of the ruined Heraeum near Argos.
Journal of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi.
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing a Mediterranean tour Campbell made while he was still a student at Eton, between 1841 and 1842., 1841-1842.
There are detailed accounts of his visits to Spain, Greece, Italy and Switzerland with small watercolour sketches accompanying his description of Spain.
The manuscript is made up of six notebooks of varying sizes bound together.
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing a tour he made across North America from New York to San Francisco in 1874, illustrated with watercolour sketches and photographs., 1874.
The first part of the volume, however, contains correspondence, notes and cuttings concerning the Ossianic controversy and experiments in meteorology with diagrams and notes.
Several printed ‘Proceedings of the Geological Society’ for 1873-1874 are also included (folios 21, 26, 42).
Journal of John Francis Campbell describing a trip to Norway and Finland from July to September 1865, stressing geological features which interested him., 1865.
Other items included in this volume are a letter of Sir Archibald Geikie, 1865 (folio 39), an extract of ‘A Night in a Workhouse’, and extracts from ‘Frost and Fire’ pasted at the end (folios 234 verso-252).
Journal of John Francis Campbell illustrated with watercolours and photographs describing his activities for the latter part of 1869, including several letters to his family during a trip to Norway and Sweden between August and September., 1869.
There is more material relating to the ‘Sutherland Gold Fields’, principally diagrams and press cuttings (folio 101), and towards the end of the volume is a series of notes and watercolours made while travelling in the north of Scotland.
Journal of John Francis Campbell, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.2.2, containing Highland tales, poems and songs collected from various sources in the west of Scotland, particularly from Skye, most of them in English., 1870-1871.
Several letters to Campbell have been included all enclosing contributions to the collection of Highland Literature. Also included are notes on ‘The Story of Art MacCuinn, King of Ireland’ (folio 111-137).