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Travel writing

 Subject

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

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Henry Goodsir Stewart

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-507
Scope and Contents

The material includes "A flying visit to Madeira and the Canary Islands", 1886, and "Some account of a trip to America", i.e. both Canada and the United States, 1885. The notebook volumes contain photographs as well as narrative.

Dates: 1885-1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of the Christison Family

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
p. 27
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Personal papers of Katie Halley, a Scotswoman abroad in London

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-352
Identifier: Coll-1843
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a diary, correspondence, an account book, a photograph and an envelope containing hair, all from the personal papers of Katie Halley, a Scottish woman who lived in London in the 19th century. Her papers offer a vivid insight into her daily life abroad and her desire to maintain her Scottish roots.

Dates: 1866-1881
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photocopy of an article entitled "Six Weeks in Mauritius", [1950s?]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2128/5/2
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of an article entitled "Six Weeks in Mauritius", by Stevenson. She spent a holiday Mauritius in the early 1950s, visiting her elder son who was stationed there in the army.

Dates: [1950s?]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of D. E. Stevenson / Articles and other texts
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

Printed chapter titled 'The Santa Trinita of La Cava', early nineteenth century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2167/1/9
Scope and Contents Chapter removed from unidentified print book, titled 'The Santa Trinita Of La Cava', pp.71-89. Pencil annotation reads 'Extracts from a book of travels in Italy'.Scott visited La Trinità della Cava during his final tour of continental Europe, autumn 1831-spring 1832. Pencil note laid in reads 'The account of this Monastery in Sir W. Scott's visit to it - last one of his life.'Adhesive damage to page 90 indicates the chapter was previously pasted to a page and has...
Dates: early nineteenth century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of papers of, and relating to Sir Walter Scott / Items relating to Sir Walter Scott from a collection made by Miss Marianne Talbot

Small notebook recording observations on horses and some travel details, 1906

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/8/8
Scope and Contents

Notebook written in from both ends. Also includes some details of Ewart's travels in Skye on behalf of the Congested Districts Board.

Dates: 1906
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Notebooks and Diaries

Spitsbergen 1960 - Diary of John Fraser

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1923
Scope and Contents Reproduction of the diary of John Fraser, then researcher at Imperial College, written during a land-surveying expedition to Spitzberg (Spitsbergen in Norwegian) in 1960. In addition to a day-to-day account of the expetition written by Fraser, the volume contains black-and-white photographs (orginals) depicting landscapes and various scenes of the expetition, a biographical note on Fraser, a photograph of Fraser himself at Imperial College, loose maps of Svalbard and Dicksonland, and an...
Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections