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 3446 Collections and/or Records:
Track pin trial carried out by James Johnston for Junorule measurement device., 1966
File
Identifier: Acc.13818/49
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1966
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to the military and technical training, and subsequent regimental service, of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to the regimental service of James Johnston with the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
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Documents relating to the invention of 'Junorule' calculation device created by James Johnston.
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Original idea and prototypes for Junorule measuring device invented by James Johnston.
Transcripts, and miscellaneous notebooks of transcripts in several hands, made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, of documents concerning British political, religious, and military history., 1600-1741, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25380-25386
Scope and Contents
Many are copies of papers in the Wodrow, Auchinleck, and Pepys manuscripts. With some annotations by Lord Hailes.
Dates:
1600-1741, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Transcripts of historical documents made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Travel notebooks of Dorothy Dunnett, relating to research for the Francis Crawford of Lymond novel series., 1973, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/20-25
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates:
1973, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.
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Literary papers of Dorothy Dunnett, relating to works by her.
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Literary papers of Dorothy Dunnett relating to the Francis Crawford of Lymond novel series.
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Research material of Dorothy Dunnett, relating to the Francis Crawford of Lymond novel series.
Travel notebooks of Tom Pow., 1988-1989, 1997.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12233/41-44
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates:
1988-1989, 1997.
Twenty-four poetry notebooks of Richard Price.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13512
Scope and Contents
Working poetry notebooks of Richard Price. The notebooks contain drafts of poems, many very different from the published version, also unpublished work, translations and reflections on major events in Price`s life. The notebooks show Price’s working practice, including his idiosyncratic use of pluses and minuses for metric stresses; his engagement with ideas in Scottish art, fiction and poetry; his use of Renfrewshire in his work; and his habit of working on several very different poems at...
Dates:
c. 1992-2004.
Two climbing notebooks, 1915-1922, of Joseph Alan Garrick; with letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11401
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums, 1934-1937.
Dates:
1915-1937.
Two manuscript notebooks concerning day-to-day running of 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)., [?1983-1984].
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/350
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
[?1983-1984].
Two notebooks and a commonplace book of E H Mill of the Burn, Kincardineshire.
File
Identifier: Acc.10469
Scope and Contents
Notebooks record travels and climbing expeditions in Italy, France and Spain.
Dates:
1872-1882 and undated.
Two notebooks and part of a playscript of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10818
Scope and Contents
Notebooks concern Africa and family historical research, and the script is on an African theme.
Dates:
1983 and undated.
Two notebooks containing manuscripts for articles on surveying with the Ordnance Survey of Tom Weir., ?1949.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13059/209-210
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Weir produced a high volume of written and spoken outputs during his career. The papers here relate to some of the results of that work, including his contributions to radio.
Dates:
?1949.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
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Literary and broadcasting papers of Tom Weir.
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Papers relating to short stories, articles, press, radio and TV scripts of Tom Weir
Two notebooks containing texts of sermons and shorthand sermons of the Lawson family, secession ministers at Selkirk.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5207
Dates:
1783-1795, 1810.
Two notebooks labelled '7:84 day book', 'Dec.82-Mar.83' and 'Mar.83-'., 1982-1983, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/349
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
1982-1983, undated.
Two notebooks of Elspeth Davie including manuscript drafts of 'The mime'., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10631/15-16
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Includes manuscript drafts of short stories and a novel.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary works and other papers of Elspeth Davie.
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Literary notebooks and manuscript drafts, including short stories and novels, of Elspeth Davie.
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Notebooks of Elspeth Davie, containing manuscript drafts of short stories and essays.
Two notebooks of John McGrath, containing schedules, a draft letter to the SAC, and draft of a screenplay for "Game's a bogey"., ?Circa 1976.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/420
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Aside from, though related to, his work with 7:84, John McGrath was involved in the study of political theatre, and was himself the subject of many articles, papers and dissertations. Much of the material listed in this section falls into this category, though there is also some that might equally well have been incorporated into the main 7:84 sequence, and vice-versa. There is some overlap with, and duplication of, items in the main sequence.
Dates:
?Circa 1976.
Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.9831
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescript drafts of part of "The Oath Takers".
Dates:
circa 1987.
Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5831
Scope and Contents
Containing manuscript corrected drafts, 1970, of an unpublished novel, "The Clone Mums", and notes on travels in India.
Dates:
1970.
Two notebooks of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 1967, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26869-26870
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...
Dates:
1967, undated.
Two notebooks of Sir George H Scott-Douglas, containing notes on the history of gardens and agriculture., [Before 1885.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8116-8117
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover the period from 1750 to 1945, but the bulk of the collection belongs to the lifetime of Sir George Henry Scott-Douglas, 4th Baronet, who succeeded his father as a minor in 1836 and died in 1885. During his minority and absences abroad with the army, his affairs were in the hands of a trustee, but after his return in 1851, Sir George took a keen interest in the running of his estates, as is evident from the long series of detailed factory accounts and correspondence....
Dates:
[Before 1885.]
Two notebooks recording the Everest expedition led by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles K Howard-Bury.
File
Identifier: Acc.11359
Dates:
1921.
Two notebooks with notes and accounts concerning the family of Dunlop of Dunlop.
File
Identifier: Acc.8652
Dates:
1685-1812.
Two photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, with an illustrated notebook of her poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.12841
Dates:
circa 1921-1941.
Two weaving notebooks of Constance Joan Henderson.
File
Identifier: Acc.11172
Scope and Contents
Includes press cuttings.
Dates:
1931-1939
Typescripts and other papers, possibly intended for the 'Alpine journal'., 1786, 1863-1899, 1918-1957, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/198(1)-206(24)
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1786, 1863-1899, 1918-1957, undated.