Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:
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
Papers of Thomas Mair (1701-1768), minister of Orwell, Kinross and General Associate Synod divine
Fonds
Identifier: MS MAI 2
Scope and Contents
Papers of Thomas Mair, (1701 - 1768)MS MAI 2/1/1: Composite volume.From the front: Diary. Begins 21 July 1727, and ends 22 November 1744. Entries are inconsistent, and frequently centre on a particular sermon given, or a biblical passage recently considered. Laid into the front is a Sermon given on 8 August 1757, taken down in another hand. Quarto volume with leather binding.From the back: Commonplace book. Quotations and notes arranged by subject (titles...
Dates:
1728-1761; Event: 31 July 1911
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of William Anderson (1795-1811), c 1805-1811
Sub-Fonds — CLX-A-348
Identifier: coll-1835/8
Scope and Contents
This subfonds contains:
- Signed diary, 25 January 1809-13 June 1809
- Signed diary, 15 June 1809-19 September 1810
- Signed diary, 23 May 1808-13 February 1811
- Three letters to his aunt, Miss M. Lothian, dated 25 September 1807; 5 August 1809; and 2 October 1809
Dates:
c 1805-1811
Part of diary, September 1951- December 1951 only
File
Identifier: Coll-37/A.82
Scope and Contents
The diary consists of loose pages removed from a larger diary, covering September-December 1951 only. The pages contain mainly scientfic notes.
Dates:
September 1951- December 1951 only
Personal diary of Reginald Augustus Warren, February-December 1848
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1465
Scope and Contents
This manuscript diary begins on 18 February and ends 31 December 1848, though there is no extended entry for Sunday 31 December. The diary describes a variety of events, often rural, and including a visit to Scotland: 18 February, 'the hounds in Pasture woods did not find a fox till the afternoon'; 1 March, 'had a telegraph sight put to my rifle'; 7/8 March, 'mobs of young miscreants still doing damage to the shop windows - good for glaziers and no one else; 1 April, 'Chartists...
Dates:
1848
Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/42
Scope and Contents
Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay noting how they made him think of 'Gray's elegy' and how 'I could wish to send the cut skull to the mu[seum] but am unwill[in]g to remove it. not right I think.'
Dates:
9 July 1870
Photographs and Diaries of John Shaw Smith
Fonds — Box CLX-A-250
Identifier: Coll-20
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: a folder containing a typescript copy of a diary of a journey from Italy to the Holy Land, covering the period 18 December 1850 to 6 September 1852; two microfilms of diaries covering the period 1849 to 1850; and five boxes of photographs showing scenes of Ireland, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, Pompei, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Petra, and more.
Dates:
1849-1852
"Polar diaries" and slides documenting David Sugden's research expeditions, 1962-2022
Series
Identifier: Coll-2044/2
Scope and Contents
This series contains six original travel and research notebooks, seven printed and edited diaries, and four boxes of slides, all documenting David Sugden's field work and research expeditions throughout his career, mainly to Antarctica and the South Shetland Islands, the Falkland Islands, East Greenland, and the Pindus Mountains, Greece.There are six original diaries, in notebooks:
"South...
Dates:
1962-2022