Skip to main content

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:

Legal papers of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited., 1961-1968.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/122-125
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1961-1968.

Letters and papers of, and concerning, General Sir George Murray.

 File
Identifier: MS.21192
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1810-1817, of, to, and concerning, General Sir George Murray, including two letters from Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington; with a notebook in Sir George's hand, chiefly concerning the Peninsular War (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and legal papers, 1824-1825, concerning Erskine v Murray (folio 29); (iii) Letter, 1845, of Sir George Murray probably to General Paul Anderson (folio 70).

Dates: 1810-1845.

Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor., 1825-1869.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.4895-4934
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...
Dates: 1825-1869.

Letters, field diary, copies of off prints of articles, and map relating to the Oxford-Cambridge natural history expedition to St Kilda., 1910, 1931-1933.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11628/218
Scope and Contents Containing:(i) Letters (1 each), 1931, from father of John Norman Stuart Buchan and from Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, then proprietor of the islands.(ii) Field diary while on St Kilda, July 1931.(iii) Copies of off prints of articles produced by the expedition John Norman Stuart Buchan, T H Harrisson and David Lack, ‘The early autumn Migration at St Kilda in 1931’ from The Scottish Naturalist, January-February, 1932; and Harrisson and J A Moy-Thomas,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1910, 1931-1933.

Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8463-8481
Scope and Contents

David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.

Dates: 1845-1964.

Letters of Isobel Field, née Osbourne, (`Teuila`), step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, to Charles Paine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12014
Scope and Contents

Includes Isobel Field`s "Precious Book" containing notes on art technique and a photograph of her in old age.

Dates: 1936-1948.

Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11590
Scope and Contents

Includes related family letters and photographs.

Dates: 1948-1970 and undated.

Lists of Knights present at meetings of the Knights Companions of the Most Sovereign and Social Order of the Cape and of C.F.D., 1782-1818.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2007-2040
Scope and Contents

The meetings are numbered from 6896 to 19930, but the numbering is very erratic. Only rarely is a minute of the meeting included. Up to MS.2028 the lists are in fascicles, which have been arranged in bundles; from MS.2029 they are in small volumes.

Dates: 1782-1818.

Literary and classical papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1742-1787, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25413-25417
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates: 1742-1787, undated.

Literary and cultural papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell., 1740-1864.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.4990-5005
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

Dates: 1740-1864.

Literary and personal papers of Alastair Mackie, comprising poetry notebooks and manuscripts, translations and journals.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13233
Scope and Contents Alastair Mackie left his literary remains to his friend, and former pupil, the writer Christopher Rush. The collection was very disordered when Rush received it, and he has carried out extensive work in sorting and listing it, alongside his preparation an edition of Alastair Mackie`s collected poems for publication by Two Ravens Press. The collection primarily consists of draft manuscripts of Mackie`s Scots and English poems, and of his translations of ancient and modern European and Russian...
Dates: 1937-1995.

Literary and personal papers of, and relating to, David Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13259/1-78
Scope and Contents

As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 19th century, circa 1916-1996.

Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents

Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.

Dates: Circa 1966-2013.

Literary and theological notes of Canon Andrew John Young., [Circa 1955]-[before 1972.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19757-19765
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Much of the material consists of notes made by Canon Andrew John Young of his reading. Some of the notebooks include page references to other volumes of notes which are not in this collection.

Dates: [Circa 1955]-[before 1972.]