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:
Papers relating to the death of Janet Adam Smith and beyond., 1999-2013.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/30-37
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1999-2013.
Papers relating to the education of James Johnston at Welbeck college., 1955-1957.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/4-8
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1955-1957.
Papers relating to the professional affairs of David Hope., 1965-1994.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13568/1-79
Scope and Contents
This series comprises notebooks recording David Hope's legal opinions at different stages of his legal career and a fee notebook recording financial matters.
Dates:
1965-1994.
Papers relating to 'The ten pains of death', by Gavin Maxwell, containing manuscripts and pages of corrected typescript., [?Circa 1959], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/18-19
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:
[?Circa 1959], undated.
Papers relating to tours and expeditions of James Wordie., 1865-1959.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-95
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1865-1959.
Papers relating to William Anderson, missionary in Jamaica and Calabar., 1841-1893.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8943-8951
Patronage correspondence, 1833-1834, chiefly transferred to Robert Graham by Lord Breadalbane; with a notebook, 1834, of Graham listing eighty four applicants for patronage., 1833-1834.
File
Identifier: MS.16146
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The general elections of 1812, 1831 and 1832, and the by-election of 1834, are particularly well documented in this series.
Dates:
1833-1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence, papers, legal and financial documents, canvass records and printed ephemera concerning elections and politics in the County of Perth parliamentary constituency involving Thomas Graham (M.P. from 1794 to 1807) and Robert Graham (Whig/Liberal campaign manager, 1831-1832, and parliamentary candidate, 1834).
Patterns for weaving, probably on a draw-loom, and apparently for linen or damask, set out in a notebook.
File
Identifier: MS.2557
Scope and Contents
Most of the patterns are named, for example, "Nebuchadnezzar's Dream in 16 leaves", "The Hare's Foot in 16 leaves", and from the names of several of them, such as "Gartshore's", "Pagan's", "Dunlop's", they would appear to be Scottish.
Dates:
18th century.
Pedigree, notes and letters on the genealogy of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1739 -1875, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8107-8109
Scope and Contents
Most of these notes and letters were collected by Sir George H Scott-Douglas in preparation for the printing of the family's pedigree (MS.8109).
Dates:
1739 -1875, undated.
Personal and naval papers of Robert Kirk Dickson., 1913-1951.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13577-13588
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection, in which family correspondence predominates, reflects all aspects of the naval career of Robert Kirk Dickson. He took part in the Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914, Gallipoli, 1915, and Jutland, 1916. In the Second World War he served as Duty Captain in the Admiralty War Room, 1939-1940, and commanded the fast minelayer, H.M.S. Manxman, 1940-1942, when he took part in a series of offensive minelaying operations in the Channel, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He was Deputy...
Dates:
1913-1951.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson.
Personal and political correspondence of Walter E Elliot and of Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12267
Dates:
1912-1957, undated.
Personal and political papers of Rosemary Hall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13491
Scope and Contents
Rosemary Hall was born on 22nd April 1925 in Aberdeen. She spent her early life in Montrose where her father and uncle ran the family salmon fishing business. Hall began her schooling in Montrose. However, the outbreak of the war caused interruption and her school was evacuated to Speyside. She began her working life as a PA to a partner in a firm of accountants in Edinburgh. Although Hall gave up her job after marriage, she did not stop working; she was against nuclear power in all forms...
Dates:
1947-2010
Personal and professional diaries and notebooks of Roland Eugene Muirhead relating to travel, politics, the Gryffe Tannery and miscellaneous subjects., 1808-1957, undated.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6052/3-157
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concerning personal, business and political matters.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1808-1957, undated.
Personal and professional papers of Roland Eugene Muirhead, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks and related material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6052/1-157
Scope and Contents
Concerning personal, business and political matters.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1803-1957, undated.
Personal notebook of Lord Cleveland showing his growing preoccupation with old age and death., 1872-1879.
Item
Identifier: MS.10209
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates:
1872-1879.
Personal notebook relating to 'The baby and the bathwater'., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/167
Scope and Contents
The owner of the notebook is unidentified, who seems to have worked with 7:84 on the production of the play.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of 'The baby and the bathwater', by John McGrath, originally 'Imperial policeman'.
Personal papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 17th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5112-5126
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Philosophical notebooks, undated, of J S Haldane., [?1885], [?1889.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20530-20531
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Dates:
[?1885], [?1889.]
Photocopies of a notebook, early 20th century, of piobaireachd of Simon Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.11613
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of letters, 1956-1968, between Pipe Majors William Gray and Hugh Fraser.
Dates:
circa 1900-1968.
Photocopies of a notebook of the major narrative poems and other notes of John Smith.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11273
Dates:
circa 1880.
Photocopies of genealogical notes concerning the Mackenzies of Kilcoy.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6282
Dates:
20th century.
Photocopies of items of David Livingstone belonging to his grandson Dr H F Wilson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10757-10765
Dates:
1854-1873.
Photocopies of notebooks of David Livingstone giving in rough form the material of his 'Last Journal', but containing many minor variations and some additions., 1865-1868, 1871-1873.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10719-10729A
Scope and Contents
The notebooks are numbered I-VII, X, XIV-XVII.
Dates:
1865-1868, 1871-1873.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
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Notebooks and journals of David Livingstone.