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Diaries

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

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:


  1. Signed diary, 25 January 1809-13 June 1809
  2. Signed diary, 15 June 1809-19 September 1810
  3. Signed diary, 23 May 1808-13 February 1811
  4. Three letters to his aunt, Miss M. Lothian, dated 25 September 1807; 5 August 1809; and 2 October 1809
Dates: c 1805-1811
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of the Anderson, Urquhart and Graham Families

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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael
Coll-20/1/9/9: The Temple of Jupiter Olympus with the Acropolis in the distance. Athens
Coll-20/1/9/9: The Temple of Jupiter Olymp...

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

"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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Research Archive of David Sugden

Scrapbook of Edinburgh University student Ella MacGregor, 1920s

 Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0181
Scope and Contents Scrapbook/diary of Ella MacGregor, an Edinburgh University student in the 1920s. It contains handwritten autobiographical accounts and thoughts, cuttings of poems and songs, copies of photographs of people involved in the University's student life (for example, V. K. Mowat, joint editor of the Student 1923-24; John B. Colquhoun, President of the Union; Lilian M. Roger, President of Edinburgh University Unionist Association), of famous people who visited the University (G. K. Chesterton;...
Dates: 1920s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

SMG Edinburgh Befrienders Diary, 1978 - 1980

 File
Identifier: GD61/6/2
Scope and Contents

A "page a day" diary including information on when specific callers or visitors are expected to get in touch, team meetings, and events.

Dates: 1978 - 1980
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Staff Files

Social diary of Eugenia Campbell, Skipness, October 1843-June 1844

 Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0113
Scope and Contents

Manuscript diary from October 1843 to June 1844, kept by Eugenia Campbell, wife of Robert Campbell, 10th laird of Skipness. Written in a sometimes difficult hand, the 146 pages open with news of a fire at a neighbour's house which left three garrets and the roof charred but most of the entries are concerned with more pedestrian news of family and friends.

Dates: October 1843-June 1844
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection