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Diaries

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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD)

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Journal of Benjamin Rush as a student at the University of Edinburgh (transcript)

 Fonds — Volume Dk.2.18
Identifier: Coll-2151
Scope and Contents

Benjamin Rush. Journal as a student at the University of Edinburgh, commencing 31 August 1766 and finishing 23 June 1768. Typed transcript from a microfilm in the University of Edinburgh Library (Mic.M.28.) of the original manuscript in Indiana University Library.

Dates: 1766-1768
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Personal papers of Katie Halley, a Scotswoman abroad in London

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)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Ms engineering journal of James Pugh Kirkwood, relating to Pensacola docks in Florida, and projects elsewhere

 Item — Box CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1795 / SC-Acc-2017-0006
Identifier: Coll-1795
Content Description This manuscript engineering journal is in two parts, spanning the period of Kirkwood's career associated with the Pensacola docks in Florida, 1845-1847, but also covering the period 1871-1877 providing a wealth of information on the occupation of the USA's most important civil engineers.The content is: copy letters which offer a detailed account of the exigencies of the task at Pensacola; and, diary or journal entries.The volume also has - at the end - a combination...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1845-1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Geoffrey Beale, founder of malaria genetics and Royal Society professor

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart