Exercise books.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Arithmetic notebook of Michael Brown at Selkirk School.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Exercise-book, containing 'Lord John, a Fife Tale', a poem, ?1895, by Thomas Swan, handloom weaver, Leslie, Fife.
Other poems (one of circa 1893) and letters with which Thomas Swan sent them to Professors David Masson and John Chiene, 1895, have been inserted at the beginning.
Exercise-book of James Duff, the Perthshire poet, containing copies of twenty-four poems, apparently in the author's hand.
The poems were written chiefly between 1801-1816. At the end are a few accounts, 1816-1821.
Literary papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, radio scripts and correspondence of Kathleen Annie Fidler.
Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.
Papers connected with the parish of St Ninians, Stirlingshire, and the family of William Wilson, clothmaker, Bannockburn.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Papers of the Shaw family, Corgarff.
Including five school books, a collection of verse, and the autobiography, circa 1860, of Alexander Shaw.
‘Parish rhymes, [by] V.O.B. North Berwick, 1872.' Manuscript and printed poems by Peter Macmorland, Minister of North Berwick, written or pasted in an exercise-book.
Also included are newspaper cuttings on various subjects and a copy of the minute passed by the Kirk Session of North Berwick on Peter Macmorland's resignation.
School excercise books of George Bowe Gaskell at Thanet House Academy, Margate.
School exercises and notes in arithmetic and bookkeeping of John Gorrie.
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.
Scrapbooks of Arthur Maurice Roth, schoolboy in Callander, containing daily observations on the progress of the Second World War.
The scrapbooks cover the period from December 1943 to August 1945. They consist of 36 notebooks in which Roth has written short notes on the progress of the war, illustrated with press cuttings he had collected.
Although it is not clear why Roth began to keep a daily record of events occurring during the war, he had an interest in military history, and keeping a record of the war on a daily basis helped to develop his knowledge of geography.