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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 3443 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.8501-8770
Scope and Contents

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: 1898-1955.

Correspondence and papers of Tom Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11750/1-122
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.

Dates: 1950-1995.

Correspondence and papers of Valda Grieve, wife of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1933-1989, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27221-27239
Scope and Contents

Valda Trevlyn was Christopher Murray Grieve's, "Hugh MacDiarmid's" second wife, whom he married in 1934.

Dates: 1933-1989, undated.

Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807., 1806-1807.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12908-12927
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Nassau Elliot of Wells was Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany, 1761-173, and his son, William Elliot of Wells was Member of Parliament for Portarlington, 1801-1802, and for Peterborough, 1802-1818, and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the ‘Talents' Ministry, 1806-1807. The Elliots of Wells were only very distantly related to the Elliots of Minto, the common ancestor being Robin Elliot of Redheugh (florished 1582). However, William Elliot of Wells was a...
Dates: 1806-1807.

Correspondence and papers of William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1814-1891), 3rd Earl of Minto., 1822-1891, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.12238-12364
Scope and Contents William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound was the eldest surviving son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1814 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1859. He was Member of Parliament for Hythe, 1837-1841, for Greenock, 1847-1852, and for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1857-1859; served as chairman of the Lunacy Commission, Scotland, 1857. As an active back-bench MP and peer, who was closely related to some of the leading political figures of his time - he was, for example, the...
Dates: 1822-1891, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19329-19405
Scope and Contents Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates: 1645-1897, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Correspondence, diaries, photographs and other papers of Seton Gordon, including some of Audrey Seton Gordon and their children.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 1(1)-[Volume] 21
Scope and Contents

Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Dates: 1894-1977, undated.

Correspondence, including copies of letters, between Sir Walter Scott and John Murray II. Also included are several letters concerning Scott., 1806-1831, ? late 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42535-42537
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: 1806-1831, ? late 19th century.

Correspondence, notebooks and journals of the Duke of Cleveland, the Earl of Rosebery's stepfather., 1840-1891, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10206-10216
Scope and Contents From the Series: Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates: 1840-1891, undated.

Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Dates: 1597-1823.

Correspondence of Alison Fell., 1975-2003.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12394/82-84
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates: 1975-2003.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks of Dudley W A Sommer concerning his researches towards, and the publication in May 1960 of, his ‘Haldane of Cloan his life and times 1856-1928’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20661-20667
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Dudley Sommer, with a few drafts and, from 1958, several copies in typescript carbon of his replies. A few transcripts of letters of J S Haldane sent to him during his researches are also enclosed.

Press cuttings containing reviews, some of which give rise to correspondence with reviewers and editors, are contained in the chronological sequence (chiefly May-July 1960).

Dates: 1952-1964, undated.