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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 3450 Collections and/or Records:

Poetry workbook, volume VII, of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1954-1971.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26119
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.

Dates: 1954-1971.

Poetry workbooks of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1942-1973.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26116-26120
Scope and Contents

Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.

Dates: 1942-1973.

Political notebook kept by the 3rd Earl of Minto., 1837-circa 1860.

 Item
Identifier: MS.12362
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes on persons considered for Admiralty appointments and promotions, on ecclesiastical, educational and Lunacy Board affairs, on population, revenue, sugar duties and proceedings in the House of Commons, and notes, made in 1854, on Joseph Butler's ‘The analogy of religion’ (London, 1736).

Dates: 1837-circa 1860.

Political notebook of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1881.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25647
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates: 1881.

Political notebook of Sir Charles Dalrymple., March 1884.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25648
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates: March 1884.

Political notebooks of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1881, 1884.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25647-25648
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates: 1881, 1884.

Political papers of and concerning Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1868-1912, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25642-25651
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates: 1868-1912, undated.

Prose notebooks of Tom Pow., Circa 1980-1999.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12233/35-40
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: Circa 1980-1999.

Receipt book of John Rennie, containing receipts for money paid by Rennie for supplies, and as wages to his employees., 1802-1814.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19926
Scope and Contents From the Series: Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...
Dates: 1802-1814.

Receipts, notes and other fragments probably relating to the Grand Tour, and notebook relating to Italian art purchases of Sir William Forbes., 1825-1827.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13827/69
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1825-1827.

Remains of a notebook, undated, of J S Haldane containing notes on foods, digestion and related topics., [?1887.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.20519
Scope and Contents

The notes are undated but from the references quoted they would appear to have been written about 1887. Many appear to have been written in another, unidentified hand.

Dates: [?1887.]