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Notebooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books of blank pages, usually ruled, used for taking notes, especially by pupils and students for taking class notes or writing or drawing exercises. .

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Box containing papers of Edith Simon concerning her youth and early writings, entitled 'Juvenilia', 1930-1937

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14390 Box 2 (1-12)
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates: 1930-1937

Papers concerning Edith Simon's published books, 1946-1971

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13772/104-166
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains notebooks, manuscript drafts, typescript drafts, press cuttings, and research notes relating to Edith Simon's various writing projects, encompassing her books, plays, and screenplays, as well as some unrealised works.

The tete-a-beche style is used by Simon in most notebooks, writing from both ends of each volume.

Dates: 1946-1971