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Travel writing

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Archive of Sheena Lillian Tennant Kendall

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2055
Content Description This fonds consists of autograph sheet music, printed music sheets, notebooks, and diaries of Sheena Lillian Tennant Kendall, "one of the first women composers" who studied under the famous Parisian composer and music teacher Nadia Boulanger. Most items are related to Kendall's music and her music- and theatre-related social activities in Munich and in London, but there are also three diaries describing her trip to India in 1912-1913. ...
Dates: 1902-1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace book of William H. Peyton

 Item — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2058
Content Description

Commonplace book of William H. Peyton, indexed, c. 80,000 words. Copious notebook kept some of the time when the writer was visiting France and Switzerland, with references to Darwin and Huxley, and an autobiography at p. 181. Dated 1893-1898.


Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.

Dates: 1893-1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diaries of Sheena Tennant Kendall and Herbert Moorhouse Kendall written while in Japan and describing the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-768
Identifier: Coll-1746
Content Description 7 x diary volumes, bound by Asprey in dark green morocco, titles to spines and front boards gilt. Each volume with one page per day and additional blank pages at the rear.The 7 x diary volumes, taken as a whole, present a vivid, evocative and informative picture of the life of the British expatriate merchant community in Japan in the period immediately following the First World War, brutally interrupted by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1 September 1923. The 1923 diary entries of...
Dates: 1919-1924
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of Chisholm’s travels in Germany and Italy; notes and extracts from publications on Scotland, the historical geography of Europe; extracts from McCrindle’s translations of Greek writers on India, [c 1899-1912]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-68/63
Scope and Contents

Diary of Chisholm’s travels in Germany (?1899) and Italy (1900); notes and extracts from publications on Scotland, the historical geography of Europe, including extended extracts from Philippson’s Europa, Vidal de la Blache, etc; extracts from McCrindle’s translations of Greek writers on India; [c1899-1912]; ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: i7

Dates: [c 1899-1912]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Diary of geologist James Nicol when he was an Edinburgh University student

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1914
Scope and Contents This is the manuscript diary of James nicol (1810-1879), an Edinburgh University student in medicine and natural history, who would later become a geologist and Professor of Natural history at the University of Aberdeen. The journal was written between the 10th of October 1840, to the 21st of March 1841, when he attended the Winter Session at Berlin University. Enclosed in the volume are typed notes, giving a rather detailed index of the diary's contents. In his journal, James Nicol...
Dates: 10 October 1840-21 March 1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of Prof Friedrich Mohs (1773-1839), German mineralogist

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MOH
Scope and Contents Diary written during a tour of Germany, 1826, with commentary by an unknown author. The commentator may have a Scottish connection, with some references to Edinburgh and surrounds throughout the text. For example, the commentator notes that 'The Sunday dress of the women in this part of Bohemia is not unlike that of our Newhaven fishwives, except that they have very finely worked red stockings and rather shorter petticoats.'The accounts are punctuated by drawings and diagrams...
Dates: 1826
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Extracts from Nansen’s account of his polar voyage, [c 1897]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-68/127
Scope and Contents

Extracts from Nansen’s account of his polar voyage; [c1897]; ms, 11 cards in envelope.

Dates: [c 1897]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Journal of a journey to Dresden, by an unknown author

 Fonds — Volume Dk.3.34
Identifier: Coll-2171
Scope and Contents

Journal of a journey to Dresden from 29 August to 7 October 1820, unknown author. Contains printed material. The object of the journey was possibly legal business, vid f.16v: "proof not begun owing to a difficulty in getting the witnesses examined." The writer mentions a meeting with Sir William Hamilton and James Mackenzie at Hamburg, f. 5r, f. 14v. Harwich - Hamburg - Berlin - Potsdam - Wittenberg - Meissen - Dresden.

Dates: 1820
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Journal of a tour round the world taken by Sir John Fraser (1885-1947)

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1296
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of three bound volumes being Sir John Fraser's journal of a tour made around the world in 1935. Each volume contains many pages of black and white photographs along with pages of typescript text describing the journey. The first entry in the journal is dated Tuesday 22 January 1935 and describes the Langholm Hotel and the start of the journey to Southampton to catch the ship (RMS 'Aquitania') bound for New York. A journey across the USA by train...
Dates: 1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Gould, Augustus Addison to Charles Lyell, May 1842 - April 1865

 File — Box Box 1.5: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/96
Scope and Contents This correspondence from A.A. Gould to Charles Lyell is mainly concerned with meetings, writings, and work of their mutual colleagues and friends. Lyell or his team, have summarised the letters, either on the envelope, or on the letter itself - usually in the space allocated to the address. Where there is a summary, it has been transcribed here. 'Dr. Gould List of Massach[usetts] shells' May 1842 ...
Dates: May 1842 - April 1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche