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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 511 Collections and/or Records:

Notebooks, diaries and personal papers of Alasdair Gray, with some literary papers and printed material.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9417/1-100
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, literary fragments and personal documents.

Dates: 1944-1986.

Notebooks from Perth Academy.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14292-14293
Scope and Contents

Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.



Dates: 1828

Notebooks of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.32.8.1-32.9.15
Dates: 2nd half of 19th century.

Notebooks of Elizabeth Susan Clark Rattray.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7768
Scope and Contents

Eight containing notes of lessons and sermons preached at Blairgowrie Free Church and elsewhere, with two containing theological notes.

Dates: 1847-1858 and undated.

Notebooks of J S Haldane containing the text, which has been much revised, of a lecture on the relation of science and belief.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20656-20657
Scope and Contents

The lecture was delivered by J S Haldane, apparently to the Royal Medical School (MS.20657, folio 26 verso).

The lecture is undated but appears to have been delivered not very long after 1882, the death of T H Green (MS.20656, folio 12).

Dates: [After 1882.]

Notebooks of John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session, containing full notes of the cases in which he participated both as advocate (criminal cases only, 1841-1858) and judge (civil and criminal cases, 1858-1889).

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.38.1.1-38.6.2
Scope and Contents

Each volume has a contents list. Inglis was Lord Advocate in 1852 and 1858, Lord Justice Clerk from 1858 to 1867, and Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from 1867 to 1891.

Dates: 1841-1889.

Notebooks of Sir James Hall entitled "Chemical experiments made with a view to obviate some of the difficulties in Dr Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth'".

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5019-5020
Scope and Contents

The notebooks give a day to day account, with sketches, of experiments made between 1798 and 1806. Most of the material is embodied in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3rd June 1805, entitled 'Account of a series of experiments, showing the effects of compression in modifying the action of heat'.

Dates: 1798-1806, 1809.

Notebooks of the Reverend William Graham.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6611/1-4
Dates: circa 1847-circa 1861.

Notebooks of Thomas Carlyle.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14412/1-5

Notebooks of W L Lorimer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9052
Scope and Contents

Concerning "New Testament in Scots"

Dates: 1858-1866 and undated.

One letter each of Alexander Shairp, 1791, and Walter Scott, 1793.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5272
Scope and Contents

With notebook, circa 1691-1692, of Robert Blair.

Dates: 1691-1692, 1791, 1793.

Papers, 1882-1947 and undated, of Sir Edward L Durand, 1st Baronet, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10838
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, 1787-1884 and undated, of the Percy and other related families.

Dates: 1787-1947 and undated.