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Travel journals.

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Found in 772 Collections and/or Records:

Fragments of journal of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 31 January-15 February 1842, 3-24 October 1843.

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Identifier: MS.11994
Scope and Contents

The journal dated 31 January-15 February 1842 deals chiefly with current politics, and the journal dated 3-24 October 1843 deals with a visit to Minto House by M d'Arlencourt, a'most tiresome' French Legitimist politician.

Dates: 31 January-15 February 1842, 3-24 October 1843.

"From King's Cross to Euston via the Caledonian Canal", tour journal of Henry Lambert.

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Identifier: Acc.14414
Scope and Contents

Lambert and his wife tour Scotland for a month in the summer of 1892, meeting up with four of their children at Oban. The Lamberts visit places including Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Braemar, Pitlochry, Dunkeld, Oban, Inverness and Glasgow.

Dates: 1892

Gaelic journal of Dugald MacNicol., 1809-1813

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Identifier: MS.14850
Scope and Contents A journal written in Gaelic, begun when Dugald MacNicol (1791-1844), had received his army commission and travelled to Barbados. Dated on the inside front cover: "1809 & 1810 & 1811 & 1812 & 1813". Formerly Acc.2152/1.The contents are:Journal in Gaelic, describing Dugald MacNicol's travels with companions and the voyage to Barbados. Folios 1-15.Folios 16-27 are blank.Three watercolour paintings of unidentified landscape views...
Dates: 1809-1813

Grand tour journal of Robert Campbell of Auchmannoch

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Identifier: Acc.13919
Scope and Contents

The journal covers a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy untaken between 29 June 1829 and early August 1830.

Dates: 1829-1830

Humorous log and sketches by Richard Doyle of voyages on the boats of Edward Ellice (died 1880)., 1855, 1859.

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Identifier: MS.15150
Scope and Contents

The log (folio 4) which is illustrated with pen and ink sketches, records a voyage on the yacht ‘The Ladye’ from Loch Hourn to Lewis and Skye in October 1859. The other sketches, which are pasted to large sheets, depict scenes during a voyage on the 'Lotus' to Skye and Rona in October 1855 (folio 19) and were probably added to the later narrative by Mrs Ellice.

Dates: 1855, 1859.

Illustrated typescript journal of `A Camping Holiday in Scotland` by Allan George Nicholson.

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Identifier: Acc.13040
Scope and Contents Allan George Nicholson, his wife Peggie, and their son Michael, travelled by road from Cresham in Buckinghamshire to London where they took the Car Sleeper train to Perth. From there they toured Scotland for over weeks covering covering more than a thousand miles in a circular route to Scourie in the north, returning via the Great Glen and Oban. Places visited include Balmoral Castle, Portsoy, Culloden, Inverness, Lairg, Scourie, Lochinver, Oban, Fingal`s Cave, Iona and Glencoe. ...
Dates: 1959.

Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.

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Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates: 1729-19th century.

Journal and reminiscences of Miss M E McCulloch (later Ross).

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Identifier: MS.9482
Scope and Contents The book opens with brief notes of a tour to Wales and Bath, 1810. This is followed (folio 4) by detailed reminiscences, written in 1813, of a prolonged visit to Bath in 1809-1810. The second part of the volume (folio 31) contains a long history, written during mourning and addressed to her children, of events in Ross's family, from her marriage in 1813 to Captain Ross, retired from naval service in the East, until his death in 1828. Among family homes mentioned are Troqueer Holm and...
Dates: 1810-1831.