Contemporary Accounts (to 1900)

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Edinburgh Review
The Scotsman

Personal Accounts
BOSWELL, James. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 1773. (ed.) Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett. Melbourne: Heinemann (in collaboration with Yale University), c1961.

DANIELL, William. Daniell's Scotland: a voyage round the coast of Scotland and the adjacent isles, 1815-1822 : a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast. Edinburgh: Birlinn (in association with the National Library of Scotland), 2006.

GRANT, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. [Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, 1797-1885]. [ed.] Andrew Tod. Edinburgh: Canongate, c1988 (2 vols) [first publ. 1898].

KNOX, John. A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebride Isles in 1786. Edinburgh: James Thin, 1975. [Orig. publ. 1787].

LACH-SZYRMA, Krystyn. From Charlotte Square to Fingal's Cave: reminiscences of a journey through Scotland 1820-1824. (ed.) Mona Kedslie McLeod; based on the translation by Helena Brochowska. East Linton : Tuckwell Press, 2004.

La ROCHEFOUCAULD, Alexandre de. To the Highlands in 1786: the inquisitive journey of a young French aristocrat. (ed.) Norman Scarfe. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2001.

PENNANT Thomas. A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772. (ed.) Andrew Simmons. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1998.

ROBERTSON, James. The Mull Diaries: the diary of James Robertson, Sheriff Substitute at Tobermory 1842-1846. Transcribed and edited by Joseph Buist Loudon. Dunoon: Argyll & Bute Library Service, 2001.

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