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Found in 1665 Collections and/or Records:
Volume used as an account book, 1819-1822, by William Patrick, a merchant in India, and in the early 20th century by David Rattray, a joiner and builder in Lochore, for calculations and working notes., 1819-1822, 1904-1922, undated.
The accounts of William Patrick are for shipping goods to Europe, China, Saint Petersburg and Smyrna. There are also lists of sailing charges and provisions.
Volume used as an account book, 1819-1822, by William Patrick, a merchant in India, and in the early 20th century by David Rattray, a joiner and builder in Lochore, for calculations and working notes; with correspondence and other papers of Rattray.
Volume utilized at different times to contain returns of the chief of staff`s allowance (folio 1), a register of applications to the director of customs (folio 3), a note on the movement of French troops (folio 23 verso), and a register of movement-orders, preceded by a list of stages (folio 36)., 1816-1818.
Many of the leaves are blank.
Volume written in 1796 entitled `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs`.
Volumes containing records of the Gray Library, Haddington., 1639-1885.
Wartime notebook of George Campbell Hay, including lists of Hay's work sent for publication., 1946.
In November 1942, George Campbell Hay went to North Africa with the Ordnance Corps. During his service there he learnt French, Arabic and Italian. By 1945 he was in Italy, and in the autumn of that year he was transferred to the Education Corps and posted to Greece before being sent home in 1946. His notebooks contain poetic, linguistic and political material in several languages.
'Watercolour picture book' of Erskine Beveridge, containing a list of watercolours and drawings by the Glasgow artist, with details of their sizes, appearances in exhibitions, and sales.
Weekly returns of Jacobite prisoners at Dundee, Edinburgh and Irvine, and Montrose, Musselburgh and Stirling.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Work on digestion, incipit 'Premissis quibusdam que certa corpus humanum'., 13th century.
Initials are alternately blue and red.
At the end are added a note from Henry of Huntingdon, book 6, and a list (incomplete) of battles between the English (`nos`) and Scots from 1307 to 1385 (late 14th century, folio 31 verso).
Work schedules and recipes for the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh kitchens.
‘Working Italian vocabulary based on that of Basic English’, undated, by John Purves., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Working notebooks of William Sharp containing miscellaneous notes., [Before 1906.]
On the whole, the notebooks were used for quotations from English, Italian, Gaelic and Greek writers, as well as for many Gaelic expressions, customs, etc., which William Sharp evidently considered for possible inclusion in his own writings. The notebooks contain lists and arrangements of stories, poems, etc., as well as outlines and rough drafts of particular works.
Working papers of William Skeoch Cumming, comprising notes, sketches, photographs, and other material collected by him in the course of his work., 1893-1919, undated.
Most of the material is undated and fragmentary in nature. Rough sketches, notes taken from printed books, addresses, accounts, and descriptions of portraits and uniforms are scattered throughout.