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Diaries

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

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Reginald Davies

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-191
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of correspondence about the Sudan between 1901 and 1961, and include photograph albums, loose photographs and slides, verses, addresses, articles, and biographical information. Contained within is correspondence with Freya Stark (1893-1993). There is also diary-based material covering 1920 to 1934. The material is both in manuscript and typescript form.

Dates: 1901-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Rev. Bruce Kenrick

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1363
Scope and Contents A tranche of material acquired in 2012 is composed of diaries and journals, notebooks, notes, talks and broadcast scripts, letters, newspaper clippings, more specifically: Box containing school reports, a copy of school newspaper, and letters: Merchant Taylors’ School (Crosby) Terminal Reports, Summer Term 1930 to Winter Term 1936; a copy of Merchant Taylors School newspaper, ‘Weekly Echo’, No.1. (ed....
Dates: 1927-1989
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882), 1822-1887

 Sub-Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1817/2
Scope and Contents This sub-fonds consists of the papers of Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882), toxicologist and physician, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1838/40 and 1846/48) and President of the British Medical Association (1875). Manuscript notebooks for autobiography (4 notebooks) Notes of highland expeditions and holidays, etc. 1854-1881 (Skye with Dr Sharpey, 1854; Braemar...
Dates: 1822-1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of the Christison Family

Papers of the Balfour-Melville family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1934
Scope and Contents Papers of four members of the Balfour-Melville family: Evan Whyte Melville Balfour-Melville, James Balfour-Melville of Strathkinness, John Whyte-Melville of Strathkinness, and Mary Louisa Dundas, later Mrs J. H. Balfour-Melville. 15 notebooks containing mainly lecture notes, essays, etc., that belonged to Evan Whyte Melville Balfour-Melville, ca 1910-1962. Diary of James Balfour-Melville...
Dates: 1817-1867; c 1910-1962
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Harman family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1906
Scope and Contents

Sketchbooks and papers relating to the Harman family and their travel around Europe, including Ireland and Italy.

Dates: 1890s-1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of William Anderson (1795-1811), c 1805-1811

 Sub-Fonds — CLX-A-348
Identifier: coll-1835/8
Scope and Contents

This subfonds contains:


  1. Signed diary, 25 January 1809-13 June 1809
  2. Signed diary, 15 June 1809-19 September 1810
  3. Signed diary, 23 May 1808-13 February 1811
  4. Three letters to his aunt, Miss M. Lothian, dated 25 September 1807; 5 August 1809; and 2 October 1809
Dates: c 1805-1811
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of the Anderson, Urquhart and Graham Families

Part of diary, September 1951- December 1951 only

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/A.82
Scope and Contents

The diary consists of loose pages removed from a larger diary, covering September-December 1951 only. The pages contain mainly scientfic notes.

Dates: September 1951- December 1951 only
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Biographical and personal / Diaries and notebooks

Personal diary of Reginald Augustus Warren, February-December 1848

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1465
Scope and Contents This manuscript diary begins on 18 February and ends 31 December 1848, though there is no extended entry for Sunday 31 December. The diary describes a variety of events, often rural, and including a visit to Scotland: 18 February, 'the hounds in Pasture woods did not find a fox till the afternoon'; 1 March, 'had a telegraph sight put to my rifle'; 7/8 March, 'mobs of young miscreants still doing damage to the shop windows - good for glaziers and no one else; 1 April, 'Chartists...
Dates: 1848
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/42
Scope and Contents

Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay noting how they made him think of 'Gray's elegy' and how 'I could wish to send the cut skull to the mu[seum] but am unwill[in]g to remove it. not right I think.'

Dates: 9 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael
Coll-20/1/9/9: The Temple of Jupiter Olympus with the Acropolis in the distance. Athens
Coll-20/1/9/9: The Temple of Jupiter Olymp...

Photographs and Diaries of John Shaw Smith

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-250
Identifier: Coll-20
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of: a folder containing a typescript copy of a diary of a journey from Italy to the Holy Land, covering the period 18 December 1850 to 6 September 1852; two microfilms of diaries covering the period 1849 to 1850; and five boxes of photographs showing scenes of Ireland, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, Pompei, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Petra, and more.

Dates: 1849-1852
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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