Notebooks.
Found in 3446 Collections and/or Records:
Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1901, or before.
These were originally in small notebooks, but have now been gathered into volumes, the title-pages of the notebooks being preserved and reproduced in the catalogue records for the individual volumes.
Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1901, or before.
Summaries of estate accounts., 1861-1879.
Leaves have been torn out between folios 5 and 6, and 18 and 19.
Survey notebook of John Rennie concerning canals and navigations in Chelmer and Blackwater., 1792.
Survey notebook of John Rennie for the Rochdale Canal: Colne to Farside branch., [Circa 1791.]
Survey notebook of John Rennie for the Rochdale Canal: Dean Royd to Touchethole branch., [Circa 1791.]
Survey notebooks of John Rennie for the Rochdale Canal., [Circa 1791.]
Teacher training and early career, 1950-1962 and undated
Teaching notes and papers of Janet Adam Smith for Somerville College, Oxford., 1965-1966.
Containing: Report and notes on her students studying 19th century literature, Trinity term, 1965.
Typed copy of a paper 'Are purely literary values enough?', by W W Robson.
Notebook on various novels and literary texts, including: 'Waverley'; 'Barnaby Rudge'; 'Amour de Voyage'; 'Maud'; 'Felix Holt'; 'Princess Casamassima'; 'Secret agent'; and 'Weir of Hermiston'.
Ten letters and a postcard of Leonora Blanche Lang, née Alleyne, to her niece Margaret Munro and her husband William. With a notebook and photographs.
Notebook contains series of sketches titled "Country Conversations"; photographs of Leonora and Andrew Lang.
Ten literary notebooks of Morley Jamieson.
Including drafts of poems and short stories.
`The Antient customary laws of the Isle of Mann`., 1811.
`The antient laws of the Isle of Mann` copied by Thomas Scott during his stay on the Isle of Man. The documents were seen by Walter Scott who used them as part of his inspiration for the novel `Peveril of the Peak` (1823), and referred to them in his introduction. Thomas includes a letter to Walter, 11 April 1811, from the Isle of Man.
The Graham Brown Collection.
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
"The Poet`s Journal" of George Crabbe., 1779-1780.
Title taken from the `Index of English Literary Manuscripts`, volume 3, part 1, page 296 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.
'The Slade animal land', being a notebook of pen and ink caricatures of staff and students at the Slade School of Fine Art by Logic Whiteway, one of the students.
Most of the drawings are accompanied by a humorous commentary and there is a key identifying the figures (folio 67 verso). The signature of Augustus John is inside the front cover, and he is included among those caricatured.
Three notebooks and a typescript diary of Naomi Mitchison.
Concern travels in Botswana.
Three notebooks of Elspeth Davie including manuscript drafts for short stories., Undated.
Includes manuscript drafts of short stories and a novel.
Three notebooks of Janet Adam Smith, containing notes for her autobiography., Undated.
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Three notebooks of Marryat Ross Dobie.
Concerning John Leyden.
Three notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
One notebook, circa 1966, concerns India. The others, 1980, contain autobiographical notes.
Three notebooks of William Findlay.
Containing:
ballads collected by William Findlay
lectures, 1861-1862, of the Reverend Robert Buchanan on logic and rhetoric
correspondence, 1952-1958, of William Montgomerie.
Three notebooks on the history of Orkney for 'Scotland: The Story of a Nation'., 1986.
File includes magazine cuttings of Magnusson in Orkney.
Three notebooks two on archaeology and one on birds., 2nd half of 20th century.
Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.
Topographical notes of Canon Andrew John Young., [Circa 1950]-[circa 1967.], undated.
Much of the material consists of notes made by Canon Andrew John Young of his reading. Some of the notebooks include page references to other volumes of notes which are not in this collection.