Notebooks.
Found in 511 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of Naomi Mitchison.
On literary, critical and family matters.
Notebook of notes taken by Charles C Easterbrook at Edinburgh University from tutorial classes on moral philosophy.
Notebook of poems by John Willison.
Includes a Hebrew vocabulary and lexicon by Willison based on the published work of John Row.
Notebook of Professor John Erickson relating to the Arms Race.
Notebook of Richard Augustine Hay apparently originally intended for notes (folio 1), meditations and extracts (folios 1-10 inverted) of a religious character, but used almost entirely for transcripts of documents relating to the family of Sinclair of Rosslyn (folios 3-83).
Notebook of Richard Fursman.
Containing a system of shorthand, notes on Hebrew grammar and four sermons.
Notebook of Robert Jackson, a schoolboy, consisting chiefly of geometrical rules, exercises, and diagrams; followed by some more general mathematical notes, and some punitive 'lines'.
Notebook of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Includes biographical notes on Jean Cavalier and drafts of "The Spaewife" and other poems.
Notebook of Robert Young, a merchant in Kinross, concerning the hamlet of Meikle or Wester Balgedie in the parish of Portmoak.
The notebook contains a key to a sketch of Meikle Balgedie (the sketch itself is missing); a history of the Youngs and other families in the parish; a list of proprietors and tenants of Portmoak in 1807; and material on methods of agriculture. This last was used by the author's grandson, Robert S. Young, in ‘About Kinross-shire and its folk’, pages 21-23.
Notebook of Sir James Balfour containing additions to his ‘Annals of Scotland’.
Notebook of Sir Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material.
(i) `A Catalogue of Mineralls and figur`d stones found in Scotland in M.R.W. cabinet` (page 4). An abridged copy by Robert Sibbald of the catalogue of material owned by Robert Wodrow in 1703.
(ii) Copies, not in Sibbald`s hand, of descriptions of Shetland and the Hebrides written in the second half of the 17th century (inverted page 1).
Notebook of Susan Marjoribanks containing brief notes of botanical and common names of plants observed, with dates, and drawings of selected specimens.
The compiler is presumably the youngest daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks, 2nd Baronet, of Lees.
Notebook of the Reverend Robert Kirk, later Minister of Aberfoyle and author of ‘The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies’, titled, ‘First Manuscript. A Miscellany of occurring thoughts on various occasions. Ro: Kirk. Love and Live; August i at Balquhidder, 1678'.
Reverend Kirk’s reflections on moral, religious, ecclesiastical, and general questions (including traditions about witches and fairies) give, incidentally, a picture of life in a Highland parish.
Notebook of Thomas D Thomson containing notes on tribal and clan statistics in Malawi.
Notebook of Thomas Heart, containing prose translations, poetry, notes and some medical recipes.
The notebook contains prose translations of most of Horace's ‘Odes and Epodes’ (inverted folio 3, folio 1 verso), a poem entitled "The believer's dowry" with other verses and notes of a religious nature (folio 4), and some medical recipes (folio 27 verso). Dates ranging between the years 1720 and 1763 occur at points throughout the volume.
Notebook of Thomas James de Bourgho.
Containing material concerning cartography, surveying, photography and chemistry.
Notebook of Thomas Philip Graham of Airth.
Contains notes made during his military studies in France.
Notebook of Thomas Ruddiman, containing mainly details of his personal expenditure.
The notebook also includes accounts of money disbursed by Thomas Ruddiman as Assistant Librarian of the Advocates' Library.
Notebook of W S Graham containing drafts of poems, a radio play, notes and illustrations.
Notebook of Walter Macfarlane, in his own hand, containing scattered notices on various subjects.
Notebook of William Anderson, musician.
Notebook containing records of William Anderson's income and expenses while travelling and performing as a musician at the theatre of Arbroath, 1791-1792. Places listed are Aberdeen, Arbroath, Banff Montrose, Elgin, Forres, Fort George and Inverness. With some genealogical information and financial accounts of later owners dated up to 1842.
Pp. 69-71, including the interleaved blotting paper, contain lists of operas, possibly performed by Anderson and his colleagues.
Notebook of William Stewart, elder, Deputy Town Clerk, Edinburgh, containing rough notes of a legal nature and memoranda.
This may have been the notebook on which William Stewart's fuller protocol book would have been based.
Notebook of William Wallace.
Containing verses and drawings.
With some unconnected letters.