Custodian: University of Glasgow Library Special Collections

Reference: MS GEN 1465/60

Notebooks of Alexander MacCallum Scott: personalities and travel, Baltic States. Vol.3 (Jun.8-Jun.28): detailing travels through Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; comments on Russian trade, pedlars and street sweepers in Russia, the Kremlin, Jews, and Vilna, from 1924.

The diary details Alexander MacCallum Scott's (Liberal MP for Bridgeton, Glasgow and ex PPS to Winston Churchill) journey through Russia and the Baltic. A quote from the diary about Riga, Latvia, reads:

""Riga is a great city with a history, a character, a personality of its own. It lies near the mouth of a great river. With an excellent harbour & all natural facilities for trade. Great sea going steamers sail up the river & anchor in the ... water close up against the market place, opposite the tall warehouses & the English Church. It was built by the merchants of the great northern trading fraternity of the Hanseatic League, who knew how to hold men own sword in hand (sic) against kings, emperors & feudal barons ...."(19/6/24)

See the catalogue entry for this diary here.