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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:

Sketchbook of Christopher Norton, business partner of James Byres, 1764-1765.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11873
Scope and Contents

Includes a note and copy-letterbook of Norton, 1788-1794.

Dates: 1764-1794.

Small notebook containing details of the `Names of the Several Parishes, Ministers and presbyterys in Scotland`, originally in the collections of Walter MacFarlane, of MacFarlane, and having a few additions and corrections in his hand.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.8
Scope and Contents

The list is arranged by presbytery, beginning with Edinburgh (folio 2) and ending with Zetland (folio 26 verso). The final page of the volume has a summary table of the number of parishes and ministers in the various presbyteries and a national total for Scotland.

Dates: Circa 1750-1753.

Small notebooks written almost entirely in pencil containing part of a diary of an officer of the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons (Hussars), probably Edward Simpson Grey, whilst on service in India.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15394-15400
Scope and Contents The first six volumes cover the period from 5 October 1857, when he embarked from Ireland, to 12 January 1860, and the seventh from 21 November 1863 to 27 April 1864, when he returned to England. Although the notebooks are numbered consecutively (perhaps in another hand) from 1 to 7 it seems clear that if the diary was kept continuously, several more notebooks, covering the period from 13 January 1860 to 20 November 1863, must be missing. Although none of the notebooks is signed, it seems...
Dates: 1857-1864.

Ten letters and a postcard of Leonora Blanche Lang, née Alleyne, to her niece Margaret Munro and her husband William. With a notebook and photographs.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13025
Scope and Contents

Notebook contains series of sketches titled "Country Conversations"; photographs of Leonora and Andrew Lang.

Dates: circa 1880-1933.

Ten literary notebooks of Morley Jamieson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7547
Scope and Contents

Including drafts of poems and short stories.

Dates: circa 1948-1976.

The Graham Brown Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4338/1-247
Scope and Contents

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1877-1962.

'The Slade animal land', being a notebook of pen and ink caricatures of staff and students at the Slade School of Fine Art by Logic Whiteway, one of the students.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20347
Scope and Contents

Most of the drawings are accompanied by a humorous commentary and there is a key identifying the figures (folio 67 verso). The signature of Augustus John is inside the front cover, and he is included among those caricatured.

Dates: 1898.

Three notebooks and a typescript diary of Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10807
Scope and Contents

Concern travels in Botswana.

Dates: circa 1965-circa 1982.

Three notebooks of Marryat Ross Dobie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6681
Scope and Contents

Concerning John Leyden.

Dates: Undated

Three notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10810
Scope and Contents

One notebook, circa 1966, concerns India. The others, 1980, contain autobiographical notes.

Dates: circa 1966-1980.

Three notebooks of William Findlay.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8310
Scope and Contents

Containing:

ballads collected by William Findlay

lectures, 1861-1862, of the Reverend Robert Buchanan on logic and rhetoric

correspondence, 1952-1958, of William Montgomerie.

Dates: 1861-1958.

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 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 of Mary Geikie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8916

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.