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Travel journals.

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Found in 772 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of the 2nd Earl of Minto with many meteorological notes and observations., July 1829-November 1830.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11991-11992
Scope and Contents The journals chiefly concern a prolonged residence of the 2nd Earl of Minto and his family in Vevey, Switzerland, but including a visit to Paris (February-March, 1830), and description of the constitutional crises preceding the revolution there. MS.11992 ('Monte Rosa Journal') is concerned largely with the successful third ascent of the Breithorn by the 2nd Earl and party (August 1830); the journal account of the climb was published substantially complete in ‘Alpine Journal’, volume xvi,...
Dates: July 1829-November 1830.

Journal of the Honourable Frances Catherine Mackenzie, daughter of Lord Seaforth. , 1811, 1813.

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Identifier: MS.2540
Scope and Contents

The journal contains entries for 1811, which are purely social, written at Sidmouth, and for 1813, which describe a journey from Brahan to Dalwhinnie.

Dates: 1811, 1813.

Journal of the Reverend William Wilson of a Continental tour in August and September 1863, written in the form of letters to his children., 1863.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14222-14223
Scope and Contents

The letters describe the scenery and places of interest, and include some comments on the practices of the Catholic Church. The party travelled to Antwerp and Brussels and then through Germany and Switzerland to Milan, returning by the St Gotthard pass, Geneva and Paris.

Dates: 1863.

'Journal of the tour round the Western Islands of Scotland 1788', a quarto notebook and various unbound pages forming together an incomplete journal, in the hand of John, 1st Marquess of Bute (then Lord Mountstuart).

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Identifier: MS.9587
Scope and Contents The journal comprises chiefly the account of a voyage, August 1788, in the revenue cutter ‘Royal George’ from Mountstuart, Isle of Bute, to Islay (folio 2), Mull and Lismore (folios 5-12), Staffa and Iona (folios 26-27), North Uist and Lewis (folios 28-30), Skye and Raasay (folios 30-34), Canna (folios 34-41), and Oban and Kerrera (folio 42). There is also a fragment of journal, 12-19 October, relating to a later cruise in Loch Fyne (folio 43). Also included are...
Dates: 1788.

Journal of tours in Scotland and England made in 1830 and 1832 by Eliza Grieg.

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Identifier: MS.9938
Scope and Contents The first tour, in August and September 1830, was from Edinburgh to Aberfeldy, St Fillans and Glasgow, returning through New Lanark where the party visited Robert Owen's school. The journal records the tour party as consisting of 'Mrs Bruce, Mr & Mrs Murray and two Misses Murray' [John Murray II and his family].The second tour (folio 17 verso) lasted from August to October 1832, when Miss Greig and her friends travelled to the Lake District, Chester, and Malvern, returning...
Dates: 1830, 1832.