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Diaries

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:

Diary, 1960-1961

 Item
Identifier: Coll-37/A.92
Scope and Contents

The diary includes some scientific notes.

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Biographical and personal / Diaries and notebooks

Diary of a "London Gentlemen of Independent Means"

 Fonds — Volume Dk.5.31
Identifier: Coll-2205
Scope and Contents

Diary of a London gentlemen [Cas?] of independent means for 1893. Intermittent groups of entries recording shooting in Scotland, visits to race meetings, theatres, etc.

Dates: 1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of Charles Ross of Greenlaw, 1 January 1795-27 June 1805

 Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0192
Scope and Contents Manuscript pocket-diary of Charles Ross of Greenlaw, a Scottish surveyor, architect, farmer, nurseryman and gardener near Paisley, with daily weather readings and notes of his activities and health from 1 January 1795 to 27 June 1805. The diary contains some illustrations. Charles Ross was at the forefront of the Agricultural Revolution in South-West Scotland in the second half of the 18th century. His journal reveals that in his late 70s and early 80s he remained physically and socially...
Dates: 1 January 1795-27 June 1805
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Diary of geologist James Nicol when he was an Edinburgh University student

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1914
Scope and Contents This is the manuscript diary of James nicol (1810-1879), an Edinburgh University student in medicine and natural history, who would later become a geologist and Professor of Natural history at the University of Aberdeen. The journal was written between the 10th of October 1840, to the 21st of March 1841, when he attended the Winter Session at Berlin University. Enclosed in the volume are typed notes, giving a rather detailed index of the diary's contents. In his journal, James Nicol...
Dates: 10 October 1840-21 March 1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of Harriet Rutherford

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1930
Scope and Contents

Diary of Harriet Rutherford, nee Mitchelson, wife of Daniel Rutherford (professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh), covering starting on the 17 May 1802 and ending on the 7 December 1808.

Dates: 17 May 1802-7 December 1808
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of Helena Marshall

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1952
Scope and Contents

Diary of Helena Marshall when she was a student at the 'College of Arts', Edinburgh (NB - not Edinburgh College of Arts, which was founded in 1907, but probably the Faculty of Arts of the University of Edinburgh) and (later) a governess in Russia (Petersburg) and Switzerland. Also journal consisting mainly of notes from lectures at the College of Arts on botany, geology, zoology, electricity, Italian art, etc., 1869.

Dates: 1869-1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of Henrietta Barnett

 Fonds — Volume Dk.5.26
Identifier: Coll-2202
Scope and Contents

Barnett (Henrietta). Diary, 5 April 1834 to 2 April 1838. Mainly a record of social engagements, domestic events, and the weather.

Dates: 1834-1838
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of Isabel Jane Thorne

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-842
Identifier: Coll-1175
Scope and Contents

The diary is 43pp. long (foolscap). It is a copy of typescript with corrections. It begins with her birth and family circumstances as she grew up, and includes her life as a governess, her marriage and journey to China, the birth of her children, the Taiping Rebellion, medical training in London and studies in Edinburgh, and her return to London. The diary ends in 1886-1887 and with brief description of personal celebrations around the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of [Joseph] Edward Booth, continued by Emily Booth, 1891-1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-210/1/7
Scope and Contents

Diary of Joseph Edward Booth (son of Joseph Booth and Mary Jane née Sharpe) describing his mother’s death and his studies in England, the diary was continued by Emily Booth. 1 vol., 1891-1892; 1899-1901.

Dates: 1891-1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers relating to Joseph Booth and family / Material related to the Booth family

Edinburgh University Diary, 1953-1954

 Item
Identifier: Coll-37/A.85
Scope and Contents

The diary includes scientific notes and ideas.

Dates: 1953-1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Biographical and personal / Diaries and notebooks