Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Each-drai Chlann Uisne', 16 March 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/14
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Each-drai Chlann Uisne' [Eachdraidh Chlann Uisne] collected from Iain MacNeil [John MacNeil], aged 83 years, cottar, Buaile nam bodach [Buail nam Bodach/Bolnabodach, Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. Carmichael describes him as 'aois 83 co-aois a Chorneil mhic Neil. He appears about 60 years'. The story tells how Seven folios of text have been written over transversely in blue ink, the first text being written in black ink. The blue ink text is a continuation of the story or as...
Dates:
16 March 1867
The Duncan and James Strang Collection
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1624
Identifier: Coll-1885
Content Description
This fonds is composed of "The Seaforth Highlanders’ diary", which is in fact a collection of typescripts and manuscripts by Duncan W. P. Strang written during the First World War. They mainly contain a typescript draft of an unifinished book on the Seaforth Highlanders during the war, as well as abstracts of diaries and accounts of battles and tactical operations, and reflection on war and military strategy.The first text is the most structured and the most complete. It is a...
Dates:
1914-1918
Travel diary, 1948
Item
Identifier: BAI 2/4/11
Scope and Contents
Diary kept by Jewel Baillie of the trip she and John Baillie took in 1948, referring to locations in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, United States and Canada.
Dates:
1948
Typescript diary of Sir John Jackson's visit to Europe and America , July-November 1911
Item
Identifier: Coll-1490 outsize
Scope and Contents
Typescript diary relating a trip Sir John Jackson took from July to November 1911, and during which he visited Paris, London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Cherbourg, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Arica, Panama, Colon, New Orleans, St. Louis, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seatle, Victoria B.C., Vancouver, Revelstoke, Glacier, Calary, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, Montreal, St John, Ottawa, Toronto, Chatsworth, Niagara, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Washington, New York, and Liverpool.
Dates:
July-November 1911
Typescript epistolary journal by [Alice] Maud Hitchcock
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-2000
Content Description
Extensive archive of letters, together forming a journal of seven years’ work for the Church Missionary Society in China. Addressed to ‘dear Friends’ of her church in Bermondsey, Hitchcock’s letters provide a detailed account of her journey to China and her mission there. Though evidently travelling frequently throughout south-east China, Hitchcock was stationed primarily on Haitan (Pingtan) island with Eleanor Jane Harrison, recording
efforts to teach the Gospel to the local population and...
Dates:
1901-1908