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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:

Papers of the family of Graham of Airth.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12290
Scope and Contents

Includes papers of related families including Stirling of Ardoch and Strowan, a family bible and printed material.

Dates: 18th century to 19th century.

Papers of the first Earl Haig.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3155

Papers of the Lawson family, ministers at Selkirk.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5052
Dates: 18th century to 19th century.

Papers of the Piobaireachd Society, including correspondence and papers of Archibald Graham Kenneth (Archie Kenneth).

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14539
Content Description Further papers of the Piobaireachd Society, containing Society business files and a small number of manuscripts and printed books belonging to the Society. The largest part of this collection is formed by the correspondence and papers of Archibald Graham Kenneth (Archie Kenneth), including correspondence with his friend James Campbell, son of Archibald Campbell of Kilberry (1916-2003), and others; papers concerning his editions of some of the Piobaireachd Society music...
Dates: 1940s-1980s.

Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26301-26462
Scope and Contents

Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Dates: 1854-1980, undated.

Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26561-26671
Scope and Contents

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1895-1983, undated.

Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9251
Scope and Contents

Includes sermons, lectures, notes for published works, correspondence, pastoral notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 1926-1985.

Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14220-14226
Scope and Contents

William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.

Dates: 1833-1939, undated.

Papers of Thomas Johnston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5862
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, sketchbooks, correspondence, and manuscripts of lectures and addresses.

Dates: 1904-1957.

Papers of W S Graham, originally from the collection of Alan Clodd.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12468
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and letters, mostly to Alan Clodd.

Dates: circa 1937-1981.

Papers of Walter S Crow.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7164
Scope and Contents

Including account of 1918 war experiences, compiled in 1977 from original notebook carried in the field, which is also presented, together with a letter on the battle of Château-Thierry.

With photocopies of two letters, 1944, of W R Crow, and photocopies of unassociated essays.

Dates: 20th century.

Papers of William Stuart Henry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6177
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, sketches, poems, and correspondence concerning his work.

Dates: circa 1942-1967.

Papers partly concerning persons named Galbraith.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7862
Scope and Contents

Including 12 account books and notebooks, 1697-1917.

With a few loose papers including five letters, 1811-1813, of Hugh Laing, St Croix, to Hugh Morris, Largs.

Dates: 1697-1917.

Patterns for weaving, probably on a draw-loom, and apparently for linen or damask, set out in a notebook.

 File
Identifier: MS.2557
Scope and Contents

Most of the patterns are named, for example, "Nebuchadnezzar's Dream in 16 leaves", "The Hare's Foot in 16 leaves", and from the names of several of them, such as "Gartshore's", "Pagan's", "Dunlop's", they would appear to be Scottish.

Dates: 18th century.

Personal and political papers of Rosemary Hall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13491
Scope and Contents Rosemary Hall was born on 22nd April 1925 in Aberdeen. She spent her early life in Montrose where her father and uncle ran the family salmon fishing business. Hall began her schooling in Montrose. However, the outbreak of the war caused interruption and her school was evacuated to Speyside. She began her working life as a PA to a partner in a firm of accountants in Edinburgh. Although Hall gave up her job after marriage, she did not stop working; she was against nuclear power in all forms...
Dates: 1947-2010

Personal and professional papers of Roland Eugene Muirhead, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks and related material.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6052/1-157
Scope and Contents

Concerning personal, business and political matters.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1803-1957, undated.

Photocopies of a notebook, early 20th century, of piobaireachd of Simon Fraser.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11613
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of letters, 1956-1968, between Pipe Majors William Gray and Hugh Fraser.

Dates: circa 1900-1968.