Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 100 Collections and/or Records:
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
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