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Journals. Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books containing accounts of an individual's or organization's occurrences or transactions, including records of financial transactions.

Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of Nicolas Servant, Chevalier de Romainval.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.1
Scope and Contents The author was serving as a lieutenant on board the `Pontchartrain`, a 56-gun vessel of the Compagnie Royale des Indes Orientales, bound from Lorient to Surat in Bombay, and on board the `Aurore` on his return to France. He kept the journal for the entertainment of an unnamed French lady, and although he recorded the distances covered, wind directions, etc., most of the journal concerns life on board, with lively descriptions of the passengers and of local customs in Africa and especially in...
Dates: 1698-1700.

Journal of Robert Mylne, recording a visit to Paris.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13689
Scope and Contents Journal of Robert Mylne, recording a visit to Paris with James Watt, 1839. Robert William Mylne (1816-1890), engineer and geologist, visited Paris between April and May 1839 with James Watt (1769-1848), engineer and manufacturer. The main focus of the visit as recorded in the journal is the regular negotiation with Francois Arago, leading to the publication of Arago’s ‘Eloge’ to James Watt, the elder, later that year. Also recorded are Mylne’s own investigations and proposals...
Dates: 1839

Journal of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.

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Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates: 1852-1867

Journal of the Blantyre Mission, Malawi.

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Identifier: Acc.9218
Scope and Contents

Kept mainly by the Reverend David Clement Scott.

Dates: 1884-1896.