Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Diary of Robert Laws (1851-1934)
Fonds
Identifier: MS LAW
Scope and Contents
Diary of Robert Laws, later missionary in Livingstonia, from his time as an agent of the Glasgow City Mission at fever and smallpox hospitals in the Glasgow area. Contains statistical information about patients at the beginning of the diary.
A note, presummably written by Laws, is pasted onto the verso of the front cover giving a bit of context for the diary. A newsclipping from The Scotsman, 15 October 1993, about the diary is laid in the front of the volume.
Dates:
1873-1875; 15 October 1993
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Notebook No.258, 22 April 1870 - 3 July 1871
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/258
Scope and Contents
This black Notebook is annotated with Lyell's name, address at 73 Harley Street, London. The Notebook begins with the end a tour of Devon - started in the previous Notebook 257 - with Lyell in Barnstaple. Mostly written by Buckley, there are sections of very poor writing at times, which could be Lyell's own. From Devon to Bristol Clifton Bridge and Bath. Time following up queries and visiting the British Museum in London is followed by train to Glasgow with Mary and Leonard, then to the Isle...
Dates:
22 April 1870 - 3 July 1871