Palestine

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the travel diary of Church of Scotland minister John Christopher Nesbitt ("J.C.N"), and his wife Ella Anderson Nesbitt ("E."). They travelled through Palestine with a movie camera at the time of the Great Palestinian Revolt (1936-1939). Among other places, they visited the Scots Medical Mission in Tiberias, the Edinburgh Medical Mission Hospital in Galilee, the Scottish Church and Hospice in Jerusalem, and the St Andrews Church of Scotland in...

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: notebooks containing a variety of material including sermon outlines, poems, letters while on a trip to Palestine, class notes, diary and sketches of Palestine trip, outlines of talks, convocation notes, and poetry scrapbooks of others; a packet of miscellaneous cards such as Edinburgh University class tickets for history, philosophy, and theology, library ticket, and General Assembly ticket; references to McCheyne's probity, and certificates of attendance and...

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: commonplace book, 1888-1895; diary of visit to the British Army in France, October 1916; diary of journey home, 1918; letters to mother and father from Middle East, 1880; letters from various correspondents, 1894-1932; letter from John G. Lorimer, 1905; letter from John Oman, 1907; letters from John G. Bartholomew, 1910-1915, mainly about Atlas of the historical geography of the Holy Land; letter from British Palestine Committee...