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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 2938 Collections and/or Records:

Business and financial notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1804-1817.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13112
Scope and Contents From the Series: General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates: 1804-1817.

Cashbook and notebook of William Graham (died 1790)., 1776-1781.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10926-10927
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1776-1781.

Catalogue of the Miscellanies in the Library at Colinton., 1824.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/401
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: 1824.

"Charities" notebook detailing donations of food and other goods to residents of Fettercairn., 1867.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/574
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: 1867.

Climbing diary notebooks of Graham Brown., 1927-1954.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/41-94
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

Dates: 1927-1954.

Climbing diary notebooks of Graham Brown, relating to the Alps., 1932-1933.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/42-59
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

Dates: 1932-1933.

Climbing notebooks of Archibald Eneas Robertson., 1898-1906.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14606/1-4
Scope and Contents

The notebooks in this series concern details relating to climbs undertaken by Robertson. The notebooks have been numbered prior to their arrival in the Library as notebooks 1 and 3-5, suggesting that there was originally a volume that is not present here numbered 2.

Dates: 1898-1906.