Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
Edinburgh University Diary, 1960-1961
Item
Identifier: Coll-37/A.93
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Note that there are no diaries for 1937, 1961-1962, 1962-1963 and 1963-1964 in the collection. Where university diaries are used, they cover the academic year, i.e. autumn of one year until the following summer.
Dates:
1960-1961
Edinburgh University Diary, 1964-1965
Item
Identifier: Coll-37/A.94
Scope and Contents
The diary has not been used.
Dates:
1964-1965
Extract of a diary written by Alexander Carmichael including part of a journey from Uibhist/Uist [to Edinburgh], 6 January 1872 to 10 January 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/93
Scope and Contents
Extract of a diary written by Alexander Carmichael including part of a journey from Uibhist/Uist towards Edinburgh. In it, Carmichael is pining for his pregnant wife Mary, who is in Edinburgh and is anxious about her health. It is clear that there has been a lack of correspondence between them causing each of them distress 'No letter no watch. God grant that she is well. Oh Mary Mary if you knew my suffer[in]g you would not thus treat me...God grant y[ou]r safe arriv[al] home my darling wife...
Dates:
6 January 1872 to 10 January 1872
Horne Papers relating to plantations in Sri Lanka
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1580
Identifier: Coll-1810
Content Description
The papers of Jack Horne and Joan L. G. Horne relating to the plantation industry in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) are composed of...:
Diaries - four 'Letts's' diaries: 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881
Ledger - dated with entries June 1909 to August 1918
Notebook - various notes on e.g.: bulking teas, shipping, charcoal, tea exchanges, and acreages
Folder - containing...
Dates:
1881-1937
International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD): mixed papers (3), 1957
File
Identifier: PJM/ICRPD/4
Scope and Contents
Papers, minutes and correspondence for the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) Provisional Committee. The file also contains papers relating to the ICRPD British Group (also called Association for Regional Planning) including minutes for their Management Sub-committee and Preparatory Committee. There is also a copy of an interim report on the International Conference on Regional Planning and Development which was held at Bedford College, London, in 1955....
Dates:
1957
Journal note about a visit to Cill-eibhinn, 10 August 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/120
Scope and Contents
Journal note about a visit to Cill-eibhinn, Crarae, Cumlodden [Cille Eibhinn/Killevin, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which states 'Rev Duncan Campbell and his wife Mary & self visited this and took there rubbings in the dark.'
Dates:
10 August 1894
Journal note about hens in Uist, 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/169
Scope and Contents
Journal note about hens which reads 'Crossing from hill to sea. Brood in 6 Sep[tember] 1890 newly hatched 7 chicks at Milton Nest 12 eggs on 15 April Benbecula.' [Àirigh Mhuilinn, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla] The text has been written in red ink.
Dates:
1894
Journal of European tour, 1889-1890, undertaken by Harry Lindsay Somerled MacDonald and Lilian Margaret Coke
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1417
Scope and Contents
The journal is in the form of a folio notebook, 69pp with additional blank pages. Original marbled wrappers. It is a diary covering two journeys abroad. The first journey began in December 1889 and took Harry Lindsay Somerled MacDonald and Lilian Margaret Coke on a trip from London to Paris, Marseilles, Corsica, Algiers, Cannes, Nice, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Palermo, again Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, over the Allps, Zurich, heidelberg, Brussels, and back to London on 2 July 1890. The second...
Dates:
1889-1891
Manuscript diary, 1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-1843/1
Scope and Contents
Manuscript Diary of Katie Halley in Pawsey's Pocket Diary And Almanack For 1875. London: Suttaby And Co et al.,[1875]. A diminutive and predominately complete diary of some 10,000 words from 1875 of a young Scots woman "abroad" as it were, living in London and clearly wanting to maintain her Scottish roots. She describes a full everyday life in London, attending musical night, a lecture at the Royal Institution, a wedding taking place at Stonehouse, visits to friends and family, hears the...
Dates:
1875
Manuscript notebook entitled "Private Memorials of Helen Late Mrs Stewart of Physgill", by Catherine Sinclair, 1845, 1863 (enclosed letter), 1946 (newspaper clippings)
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0023
Scope and Contents
This is a small manuscript notebook with a metal clasp, written by Scottish novelist Catherine Sinclair in 1845. It relates the last moments of her sister Helen, as indiciated on the title page: "Private Memorials of Helen Late Mrs Stewart of Physgill - Written for her children at the request of Mary Stewart by her Sister Catherine Sinclair".The notebook opens with the following words from Catherine Sinclair: "Having attended my sister Helen through the last two months of her...
Dates:
1845; 1863 (enclosed letter); 1946 (newspaper clippings)