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Voyages and Travel

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Unknown [Sir Donald Francis Tovey] from Frank Morley Fletcher, c1920

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2147
Scope and Contents

Letter, [n.d], California, Frank Morley Fletcher to Unknown [Donald Tovey]. Travel arrangements, and expressing excitement at the recipients arrival. Typescript signed.

Dates: c1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

List of vocabulary and place-names, 1904

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/32
Scope and Contents List of vocabulary and place-names possibly from Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire, including 'Aoibhran = Ankle'; 'Cleirmid = strum the air without the words = Canntaireachd'; 'Trian - near Comrie = Cimirie' and 'Rua-thuill = Ruchal'; [Trian, Cuimridh/Comrie and Water of Ruchill]. Some words, which are apparently place-names do not have English equivalents written next to them. There is also a note for 'Hollingsworth, New Mains Inchture' and what would appear to be train times 'From Comrie 10-10...
Dates: 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Log-book of the East India Company's Ship Streatham

 Fonds — Volume Dk.6.10
Identifier: Coll-2209
Scope and Contents

Log-book of East Indian Company's Ship Streatham. 10 January 1811 to 19 July 1812, covering a voyage from England to Bengal and back.

Dates: 1811-1812
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Mineralogical Notes on Fife, 1811

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Identifier: Coll-1373/8
Scope and Contents

Short volume of approximately 38 pages, with numerous drawings, on geological observations made on walks in Fife.

Dates: 1811
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Notebooks of Robert Jameson

Mineralogical Notes on Fife, c1811

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Identifier: Coll-1373/9
Scope and Contents

Volume of approximately 156 pages, containing geological observations, with numerous drawings, made on walks in Fife.

Dates: c1811
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Notebooks of Robert Jameson

Mineralogical Notes on Scotland, March 1816

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Identifier: Coll-1373/11
Scope and Contents

Volume of 48 pages containing a few geological observations and drawings, and a short digest of someone's zoological voyage around the world.

Dates: March 1816
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Notebooks of Robert Jameson

Mineralogical Notes on Sutherland, Caithness, etc., 1819

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Identifier: Coll-1373/12
Scope and Contents

Volume of 118 pages containing geological observations and drawings from around Scotland.

Dates: 1819
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Notebooks of Robert Jameson

Mineralogical Notes on Walks, from August to September 1813, 1813

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Identifier: Coll-1373/10
Scope and Contents

Volume of 156 pages containing geological observations, with numerous drawings, made on local walks in Scotland.

Dates: 1813
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Notebooks of Robert Jameson

Note about Alexander Carmichael's travel arrangements, 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/216
Scope and Contents

Note about Alexander Carmichael's travel arrangements which reads 'Left Edinburgh to join Mary & children at Taigh an Uillt [Taynuilt, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] Saturday 6 Sep[tember] 1884 Train from Waverley Stat[ion] 12-25'.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about Alexander Carmichael's travel arrangements, 2 October 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/261
Scope and Contents

Note about Alexander Carmichael's travel arrangements which reads 'Home to 31 Raeburn Place Edin[burgh] from Taighanuillt [Taigh an Uillt/Taynuilt/Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] this 2 Oct[ober] 1884 7-45pm Sorry coming from the hills'.

Dates: 2 October 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael