| Description | Journals and commonplace books of Lady Hilda Madeleine Keith Falconer (1875 - 1967), daughter of the 9th Earl of Kintore.
The journals relate in some detail journeys by liner and tourist trips undertaken in most cases with her mother and sister, and several include passenger lists, press cuttings and other memorabilia.
1. Journal of trip to New Zealand 1890 [first part]
2. Journal of visit to New Zealand, 12 January to 8 February 1893
3. Journal of trip to the West Indies and Mexico, with newspaper cuttings and other material included 1897
4. Journal of trip to the West Indies, Orinoco and Mexico 1897 - 1898
5. [Continuation of] journal of trip to Japan and North America [undated, c. 1900]. The previous volume of this journal is not present.
6. Journal of trip to South Africa 1902
7. Journal of trip to the United States to view US Civil War battlefields, and to South America, with newspaper cuttings and other material included 1905
8. Journal of trip to Germany, with enclosures, June - 9 August 1914. Includes reactions to the mobilisation leading up to the declaration of war on 4 August, and arrangements to leave Germany.
Commonplace books:
Five octavo notebooks, dated 1898, 1901, 1909-1910, and 1925 (two notebooks, one in English and one in French), containing poetry and prose excerpts. Together with one undated notebook containing a range of excerpts, with original documents dated 1939 to 1947.
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