Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Andrew Graham Grieve
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1725
Scope and Contents
The archive is composed of correspondence, family papers, printed matter and newspaper cuttings, literary works, and diary.
Dates:
1883-1965
Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter FRCP FACP Executive Dean Faculty of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1651
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter, and of Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter, are comprised of:
1 x folder - correspondence, 1981-1987
1 x folder - correspondence, contracts and other material relating to film And so goodbye, 2003-2004
1 x folder - graduation material, programmes, seating plans, dinner menus etc - 1981-1987
2 x...
Dates:
1942-2007
Papers of James Mair (c.1700-1774), minister of Associate (Burgher) Congregation, West Linton
Fonds
Identifier: MS MAI 1
Scope and Contents
Diary covering 2 February 1752 - 29 November 1759. Octavo format, with marbelled paper boards. 82 numbered pages, followed by 41 unnumbered pages. Pages 25 - 58 have been removed.Title page states:'Some notes of my sinful life away. Lintown. Feb[rua]ry 2d Sab: 1752'A pencil note in a more modern hand reads 'James Mair. West Linton. 29 May 1740 - 8 January 1774', in reference to Mair's years as an ordained minister.Throughout the diary, Mair...
Dates:
1752-1759
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of John Christison (1862-1894), 1871-1890
Sub-Fonds — Box CLX-A-344
Identifier: Coll-1817/4
Scope and Contents
This subfonds contains:
- Diary/journal, 1871-1874. (Holidays at Lochwood, Tarbet and St Fillans, etc. Mentions Prof. John Hughes Bennett at Tarbet.)
- Matriculation of arms of John Christison, dated 3 November 1890. On vellum, with seal attached.
Dates:
1871-1890
Papers of John William Arthur
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-207
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of correspondence and papers (1907-1949) including letters from Arthur to his mother; circular letters and newsletters from the Kikuyu mission; sections from Arthur's diaries and notes on his travels throughout East Africa; reports on missionary conferences; memoranda by Arthur and others on native affairs such as the labour question, land tenure, education and female circumcision; minutes, memoranda and papers of the Kikuyu Association and the Kikuyu Mission...
Dates:
1902-1954
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
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
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 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
Papers of the Harman family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1906
Scope and Contents
Sketchbooks, photographs and papers relating to the Harman family and their travel around Europe, including Ireland and Italy.
Dates:
1890s-1935