Travel writing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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Dates:
May 1842 - April 1865
Lighthouse Log by Captain Thomas Pixley, 1841
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/24-0092
Content Description
This is the lighthouse journal of Captain Thomas Pixley, an Elder of Trinity House (the official authority for lighthouses in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar) recounting three years travelling through the inland waters of the British Isles inspecting lighthouses and lightships, twice journeying through Scottish water in the company of the preeminent engineers and lighthouse builders, David and Alan Stevenson.In the volume there are eight vignettes of lighthouse and...
Dates:
1841
Notebook and some loose notes chiefly relating to Ewart's travels in Mexico, 1905
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/8/7
Scope and Contents
Notebook written in from both ends. Notes contains observations on horses sighted as well as travel experiences.
Dates:
1905
Notebook of a visit to Pitcairn Island in 1848, bearing the name Edward William Pritchard on front cover
Fonds — CLX-A-1582
Identifier: Coll-1821
Content Description
This notebook of a visit to Pitcairn Island in 1848 has a slightly damaged spine.On the inside front board is written...: Edward William Pritchard / Assistant Surgeon / HMS Calypso, 20 guns, Pacific.The notebook states on an early page...: 'Private opinions on things in general / Collections of mutual writing / During a cruise on the Pacific Station / between / Valparaiso, Callao, Pitcairns island, / Tahiti, Navigator, and Feegee...
Dates:
1848
Notebook on 'The Baths of La Battaglia' by James Dennistoun
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1913
Scope and Contents
Notebooks containing manuscript notes by James Dennistoun, on 'The Baths of La Battaglia & Neighbourhood', that is to say the saline springs of Battaglia Terme, in the region of Padua, Italy. It also contains a loose note entitled 'Note as to Petrarch's cat mummy at Arqua'.Contents of the notebooks, as described in a typed note at the beginning:- Description of the Baths, pp. 1-31- Description of places in neighbourhood, pp. 31-85-...
Dates:
1839
Notes on a trip to London, c 1864
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW439
Scope and Contents
Alexander Carmichael's account of a visit to London.
Dates:
c 1864
Notes on Cornwall, c early 1860s
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW463
Scope and Contents
Notes on Cornwall.
Dates:
c early 1860s
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 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