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:
Papers of John 'Jock' Watt, Speedway reporter, including notebooks, photographs, letters and programmes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14486/1-37
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise correspondence, notebooks, photographs and programmes of John ‘Jock’ Watt, a Speedway reporter. Although he was based in Edinburgh, the papers relate to meets across the UK and internationals. The notebooks make up the bulk of this archive and cover details of meets and interviews with riders.
Dates:
1951-1970, undated.
Papers of John L Broom and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10802
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of articles and addresses.
Dates:
1912-1992.
Papers of John MacCallum, policeman, Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.12529
Scope and Contents
Includes Gaelic songs and music.
Dates:
circa 1890-1925.
Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14889
Scope and Contents
Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Papers of Leslie Shirlaw.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10634
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes and articles on Archibald Pitcairne.
Dates:
1970-1980 and undated.
Papers of Mabel Ross, hand spinner and weaver.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11234
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notebooks, diaries and working papers.
Dates:
1939-1995 and undated.
Papers of Majorie Shaw, journalist and teacher, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.12250
Dates:
circa 1916-1977.
Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.27374-27410
Scope and Contents
The sister of Nancy Brysson Morrison, Margaret M Morrison studied at Glasgow School of Art and trained for the stage before beginning her career in literature.
Dates:
1936-1972, undated.
Papers of Peter Caddy, Co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12042
Dates:
circa 1940-1996.
Papers of R Macaulay Stevenson, mostly concerning the Glasgow School of Painters.
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Identifier: Acc.11212
Scope and Contents
Comprises notebooks, exhibition propectuses and correspondence, including letters of: Sir James Guthrie, E A Hornel and E A Walton.
Dates:
1886-1946 and undated.
Papers of Robert J B Sellar, Including notebooks, diaries, and scripts of radio plays and dramatisations.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7918 Box 1-Box 5
Dates:
1911-1962, undated.
Papers of Rose Ethel Bassin, Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, Associate of the Royal College of Music (1889-1974), music-teacher, song-collector, and biographer of Frances Tolmie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14910-14946
Scope and Contents
Rose Ethel Bassin was born in Edinburgh of Ukrainian extraction, and studied music under Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and others. She taught in schools in England (1907-1911, 1919-1920), Edinburgh (1915), Newton Stewart (1916-1919), Stornoway (1920-1924) and Skye (1924-1927). During 1927-1934 she lectured in the University of British Columbia. After some time in London she spent the war years teaching in Harris, the Uist and Barra. She moved to Dingwall Academy in 1945, finally becoming Music...
Dates:
1926-1968, undated.
Papers of Scottish interest, collected by R R Gove-Brown-Henderson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4378
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. letter, 1833, of Sir John Sinclair, on shell marle as manure2. rental, 1782, of the estate of Wattin, Caithness3. printed price list and two invoices, 1849, of Peter Lawson and Son4. list, 19th century, of seeds5. copy (in the hand of the donor) of letter, 1821, of William Stewart, on a new road in Caithness6. printed programme, 1887, of the Royal Naval Review at Spithead7. note book, late 17th...
Dates:
late 17th century to 19th century.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Series
Identifier: Dep.265
Dates:
Circa 1957-1975.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including notebooks, typescripts of novels and autobiographical work, and letters from various correspondents, including six from C M Grieve and four from Edwin Muir.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.239
Dates:
1926-1975.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates:
1892-1965, undated.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.3.26-23.3.30
Scope and Contents
The Eaglescarnie estate was held by a younger branch of the Haliburtons until the middle of the 18th century, when it was acquired by Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Haliburton. There are some 17th-century papers of the Haliburtons, but the majority relate to Patrick Lindsay and to his father, Patrick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for the City (see ‘The Scots Peerage’, pages 409-410). Several of the papers...
Dates:
1639-1789.
Papers of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10371-10392
Dates:
1684-1904, undated.
Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.360
Dates:
18th century-20th century.