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Travel journals.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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Found in 772 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of travel to Bermuda and Europe, volume 3., 1825.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/367
Dates: 1825.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo. / Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families. / Forbes Family Papers. / Forbes Family Notebooks.

Journal of travels in Asia Minor and of cruising in the Eastern Mediterranean, illustrated by rough sketches., 1836-1838.

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Identifier: MS.2757
Dates: 1836-1838.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).

Journal of visit by Sir Frank Mears to East Anglia., 30 June-29 August 1902.

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Identifier: MS.10680
Dates: 30 June-29 August 1902.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Sketchbooks and notes of Sir Frank Mears, the architect and town-planner (1880-1953). / Journals of visits by Sir Frank Mears to France and East Anglia.

Journal of visit by Sir Frank Mears to France., 3 May-22 May 1902.

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Identifier: MS.10678
Dates: 3 May-22 May 1902.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Sketchbooks and notes of Sir Frank Mears, the architect and town-planner (1880-1953). / Journals of visits by Sir Frank Mears to France and East Anglia.

Journal of visits by Sir Frank Mears to France and East Anglia., 23 May-29 June 1902.

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Identifier: MS.10679
Dates: 23 May-29 June 1902.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Sketchbooks and notes of Sir Frank Mears, the architect and town-planner (1880-1953). / Journals of visits by Sir Frank Mears to France and East Anglia.

Journal of voyage to Australia and New Zealand and back by William Sholto Douglas, fourth son of Sir George H Scott-Douglas, 4th Baronet, of Springwood (subsequently husband of Cecile F L Trotter)., 1890.

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Identifier: MS.20306
Dates: 1890.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of various members of the families of Trotter.

Journal of voyages kept by midshipman Robert Ritchie, entitled 'Voyages to India and other parts ... 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815'.

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Identifier: MS.9232
Scope and Contents The journal is complete only to 18 June 1812, breaking off in the middle of an entry recounting the crossing of the Equator. Two voyages are described. The first, to the Baltic in H.M.S. Nightingale, illustrates life in the Royal Navy, with crowded conditions and overbearing officers. Robert Ritchie, having decided to leave the Royal Navy, joined the East India Company and after an extensive stay in London sailed for India on the Lord Keith. The remainder of the journal describes a portion...
Dates: 1811-1812.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19200-19203
Dates: 1793, 1929-1938.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of William Edward Baxter describing a tour of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 1852., 1852.

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Identifier: MS.15907
Scope and Contents William Baxter travelled from Dover to Ostend and through Germany to Denmark where he visited Copenhagen and Roskilde. From there he went by boat to Norway and travelled north by carriage to Trondheim, returning down the east coast of Sweden to Uppsala and Stockholm, through the waterway system to Trollhättan and finally to Göteborg whence he crossed to Hull. He describes the towns, landscapes and agriculture with a critical eye, commenting on the Scandinavian way of life and comparing it...
Dates: 1852.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journals of the traveller and author William Edward Baxter (1825-1890).

Journal of William Edward Baxter describing a visit to Portugal and Spain., 1850.

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Identifier: MS.15906
Scope and Contents

The journal contains the basic material for volume 1, chapters 1-12 of William Baxter's ‘The Tagus and the Tiber’. The text differs considerably from that of the published version, and the end of the manuscript describes the traveller's return to Dover from Poitiers.

Dates: 1850.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journals of the traveller and author William Edward Baxter (1825-1890).

Journal of William Gauldie, schoolmaster of Kinnell, Angus of a voyage to South Africa undertaken after his retirement in 1910.

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Identifier: MS.8908
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the journal, which is apparently a fair copy based on diary-letters sent home, is concerned with the sea voyages. A short account of William Gauldie's time in South Africa (folios 33-39) is described as 'written from memory in 1915'. There are a few pencilled amendments in another hand.

Dates: 1910-1911, 1915.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal of William Scott of Raeburn, of a voyage from Penang to England, containing chiefly observations on the weather., 1804.

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Identifier: MS.6311
Scope and Contents

Notes are given each day of the ship's position in latitude and longitude, and of the distance covered.

Dates: 1804.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journal, day-books and an autograph book of William Scott of Raeburn (1773-1855).

Journal of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during a tour in France and Holland, apparently on a pleasure trip., 1818.

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Identifier: MS.6334
Scope and Contents The journal shows an interest in social conditions after the Restoration, in interior decoration and furnishing, and in paintings; he gives descriptions and lists of pictures in the Louvre and elsewhere, and has made sketch copies of a few (folios 30 verso-31, 82 verso). This volume is in two parts, consisting of Thomson's visit to Paris, and his tour in Holland; they are connected by the account of a journey through Belgium which includes a long description of the country surrounding...
Dates: 1818.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journals of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during tours in Northern Germany, 1813-1814, while in performance of his duties, and in France and Holland, 1818, apparently on a pleasure trip.

Journal of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during a tour in Northern Germany, while in performance of his duties., 1813-1814.

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Identifier: MS.6333
Scope and Contents

This journal is divided into the journal proper (page 1) and 'General Observations' (page 45) on the characteristics and social conditions of the Germans immediately after the Napoleonic wars; it is illustrated by a water-colour drawing of a coastal scene (folio vii) and three printed plates showing costumes and cries of German street vendors (folios ix-xii).

Dates: 1813-1814.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journals of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during tours in Northern Germany, 1813-1814, while in performance of his duties, and in France and Holland, 1818, apparently on a pleasure trip.

Journal of William Whyte of Oban kept during his voyage from Leith to Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand as an emigrant.

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Identifier: Acc.14574
Scope and Contents William Whyte was brought up in a Free Church of Scotland family in Oban, the eldest son of Duncan Whyte, secretary and treasurer of the local National Security Savings Bank. He emigrated to New Zealand, possibly for religious reasons, on the ship Melbourne, which sailed from Leith in November 1860 and arrived in Dunedin in March 1861. His daily journal, written in the form of a letter to his family in Oban, contains detailed descriptions of life and conditions on board ship, with remarks on...
Dates: 1860-1861.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Journal, personal papers, and book of prayers of Cecilia Combe., 1825-1868, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7460-7462
Dates: 1825-1868, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household. / Miscellaneous personal papers, lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe; and papers of Cecilia Combe.

Journal, possibly by James Murray, advocate, describing the journey made by him and his wife Isabella Murray and family to France., 1834-1836.

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Identifier: MS.5125
Scope and Contents

The narrative in James Murray's journal is more detailed but less personal than his wife Isabella Murray's. On their arrival in Bordeaux, this diary ceases. At the back of the journal James Murray describes a journey undertaken by himself through the Pyrenees, presumably during 1836, from Toulouse, by Foix, Tarascon, Perpignan, and Villefranche, back to Toulouse (pages 1-40 inverted).

Dates: 1834-1836.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva. / Personal papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.

Journal, possibly kept by Isabella Murray, wife of James Murray, advocate, of a journey to the south of France., 1834-1836.

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Identifier: MS.5124
Scope and Contents

Isabella Murray describes her and her husband’s stay in Bordeaux (pages 18-38), and the visit they made from there to the Château La Brède, the home of Montesquieu (pages 21-30). Their journey from Bordeaux to Pau and their stay for a year in a country house there is fully described. There is a gap in the diary between their leaving Pau and their arrival at Tours in 1836; and it finally breaks off during their stay there.

Dates: 1834-1836.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva. / Personal papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.

Journal, possibly of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, of a motoring tour made in Scotland., 1915-1916, 1920.

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Identifier: MS.17954
Scope and Contents

The journal includes six photographs.

Dates: 1915-1916, 1920.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Two journals, possibly of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, of motoring tours made in Scotland; and photographs of Pearson and his second wife, Ethel Maude. / Two journals, possibly of Sir Arthur Pearson, of motoring tours made in Scotland.

Journal, possibly of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, of a motoring tour made in Scotland., 1919.

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Identifier: MS.17955
Dates: 1919.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Two journals, possibly of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, of motoring tours made in Scotland; and photographs of Pearson and his second wife, Ethel Maude. / Two journals, possibly of Sir Arthur Pearson, of motoring tours made in Scotland.

Journal, September-October 1830, December 1831, April-June 1832, of Charles Scott., 1830-1832.

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Identifier: MS.1614
Dates: 1830-1832.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet. / Journals of Charles Scott.

‘Journal Through Clydesdale and part of the Western Highlands in 1834 to which is added, a Journal to Belfast made in the year 1833', by James Hunter, Bristo Port, Edinburgh., 1834.

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Identifier: MS.2776
Dates: 1834.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).

Journal, undated, of Sir Robert Liston, number 17: Bayonne to Lyons., [1770, or after.]

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Identifier: MS.5692
Dates: [1770, or after.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist. / Journals of Sir Robert Liston.

'Journal, volume 4th, at Naples', kept by Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, of Pitsligo, of a tour taken on the Continent with his wife and daughter., 7-26 March 1793.

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Identifier: MS.1542
Dates: 7-26 March 1793.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journal kept by Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, of Pitsligo, of a tour taken on the Continent with his wife and daughter.

'Journal, volume 7th, from Rome to Edinburgh', kept by Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, of Pitsligo, of a tour taken on the Continent with his wife and daughter., 8 May-16 June 1793.

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Identifier: MS.1545
Dates: 8 May-16 June 1793.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Journal kept by Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, of Pitsligo, of a tour taken on the Continent with his wife and daughter.

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