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Diaries

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

Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

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
p. 27
p. 27

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)

Notebooks and Diaries, 1870-c.1920

 Series
Identifier: Coll-14/8
Scope and Contents

Contains personal diaries, notes relating to animal maintenance, breeding and selling breeding, a visitors' book and address books. Some items are undated.

Dates: 1870-c.1920

Notebooks and diaries, 1928-1990

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1255/5
Scope and Contents

Contains notebooks from Beale's early research at the John Innes Horticultural Institution (as it was then known), his period at Indiana University, Bloomington and career within the Institute of Animal Genetics. The notebooks chiefly contain daily logs of experiments with Paramecium, Euplotes and other material as well as notes from reading and research.

Dates: 1928-1990

Papers and notebooks of Euphemia Cargill Anderson (1801-1856), 1813-1819

 Sub-Fonds — CLX-A-349
Identifier: coll-1835/10
Scope and Contents This subfonds contains: Diary no 1, from 15 January 1818 to 12 January 1819 Diary no 2, from 18 January 1819 to 1 November 1819 Notebook with handwritten considerations on various subjects, January 1813. Her father Robert Anderson wrote a few pages at the back. Approximately twenty letters from Euphemia Cargill Anderson to Anne Urquhart, 1840s ...
Dates: 1813-1819
p. 103
p. 103

Papers of John Christison (1862-1894), 1871-1890

 Sub-Fonds — Box CLX-A-344
Identifier: Coll-1817/4
Scope and Contents

This subfonds contains:


  1. Diary/journal, 1871-1874. (Holidays at Lochwood, Tarbet and St Fillans, etc. Mentions Prof. John Hughes Bennett at Tarbet.)
  2. Matriculation of arms of John Christison, dated 3 November 1890. On vellum, with seal attached.
Dates: 1871-1890

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

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