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:
General notebooks of Don Paterson., 1990-1996, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12689/55-65
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Don Paterson's literary papers consist mainly of notebooks and poetry files in which his meticulous planning, working and reworking of the poems is evident. The notebooks are rarely only poetry and frequently contain doodles, bars of music and set lists relating to Lammas, 'mind-maps', packing lists and other such memory-aids, and lengthy notes often relating to his teaching activities.
Dates:
1990-1996, undated.
George Forbes Notebooks., 1874-1919.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/265-270
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:
1874-1919.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Papers of George Forbes.
Grey notebook of military procedures., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/381
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:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Forbes Family Notebooks.
Group of notebooks, part of a larger collection, bound together as a single volume, and labelled on the spine ‘Practice of medicine V’ and ‘Fevers and kidney diseases’ containing notes on physiology by J J Wilson., 1882-1883.
Item
Identifier: MS.20526
Scope and Contents
Proofs of notes on diseases are pasted in on the versos of various leaves. Folios 107-156 are blank.
Dates:
1882-1883.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
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Notebooks of J S Haldane and notebooks in Haldane’s procession, compiled by others.
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Scientific notebooks in the possession of J S Haldane, compiled by others.
Hardback notebook of Janet Adam Smith., 25 March 1919.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/39
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:
25 March 1919.
Highland economy and education, ca. 1965-1966
Item
Identifier: Acc.14003/31
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing notes and drafts of letters sent to newspapers on Highland economy and landlords, and education in Highland schools. With newspaper cuttings and a letter of Capt. J. Harvey Macpherson loosely inserted. Begun from both ends, with the text begun from the back entered in reverse page order.
Dates:
ca. 1965-1966
Historical and genealogical notebook.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11639
Scope and Contents
Includes extracts from works of George Crawford, Sir James Dalrymple and Sir J Scott of Scotstorvet.
Dates:
circa 1709.
Historical notebooks of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes., 1896-1958, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10022/1-78
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1896-1958, undated.
Historical papers: Christian antiquity of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., [1786, or before], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25389-25395
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:
[1786, or before], undated.
House-painter's notebook of Robert Garioch Sutherland's father, later used by Sutherland for notes and copies of poems from ‘Scottish Chapbook’ and other publications., 1927-1928.
Item
Identifier: MS.26582
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Dates:
1927-1928.
Incomplete legal notebook kept by Alexander Hart, Writer, Edinburgh, probably when a student., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6484
Scope and Contents
Alexander Hart acted as legal agent for Sir John Halkett, Baronet, of Pitfirrane (succeeded 1779), formerly Wedderburn.
Dates:
18th century.
Incomplete notebook of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume I, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., [1776, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.25364
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:
[1776, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Material for the ‘Annals of Scotland’ volumes I and II (Edinburgh, 1776 and 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Incomplete notebooks of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume I, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Incomplete notebook of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume I, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., [1776, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.25365
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:
[1776, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Material for the ‘Annals of Scotland’ volumes I and II (Edinburgh, 1776 and 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Incomplete notebooks of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume I, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Incomplete notebook of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume II, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., [1779, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.25369
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:
[1779, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Material for the ‘Annals of Scotland’ volumes I and II (Edinburgh, 1776 and 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Incomplete notebooks of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume II, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Incomplete notebook of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume II, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., [1779, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.25370
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:
[1779, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Material for the ‘Annals of Scotland’ volumes I and II (Edinburgh, 1776 and 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Incomplete notebooks of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume II, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Incomplete notebook which records foxhunting exploits in the Galashiels and Kelso areas in 1834, likely to have been kept either by W S Walker or by his brother James., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.14193A
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of Alexander Walker and his family concerning family and estate affairs.
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Notebooks, school exercise books and other miscellaneous papers.
Incomplete notebooks of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume I, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., [1776, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25364-25365
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:
[1776, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Material for the ‘Annals of Scotland’ volumes I and II (Edinburgh, 1776 and 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Incomplete notebooks of corrected drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume II, by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., [1779, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25369-25370
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:
[1779, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Material for the ‘Annals of Scotland’ volumes I and II (Edinburgh, 1776 and 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Indexed notebook containing Christmas card lists., 1969.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/52
Dates:
1969.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Professional and business correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, containing some material on overseas travel.
Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 2., 1802-1813.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1431
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notebook, 1802, of John Rennie: River Witham at Lincoln, Foss navigation, Saxilby swing bridge (MS.19880);Notebook, 1802, of John Rennie: Waterworks at Kidbrook for Charles Abbot MP, Dover town mill and harbour, Kent canal, Torksey lock, Lough Owel, Royal canal (MS.19881); Notebook, 1802-1803, of John Rennie: London docks, sugar milling, Wolseley bridge, Stretton bridge, Radford bridge, Darlaston bridge, pile-driving engine at Wisbech,...
Dates:
1802-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures, from the National Library of Scotland. Parts 1-2 (Adam Matthew, 2003).
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 2.
'Inheritance in hens', a notebook of J B S Haldane containing brief notes on breeding and the offspring of cocks and hens., 1919-1926.
Item
Identifier: MS.20583
Scope and Contents
A leaf is torn out after folio 85. Folios 28-42 and 47-60 are blank.
Dates:
1919-1926.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane.
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Notebooks of J B S Haldane containing notes on various topics and first versions of lectures, books and papers on scientific topics, and on some of public concern.
John Menzies 'A4 notebook' containing notes, some loosely inserted, of William McIlvanney., [?1966-?2015].
File
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 5(11)
John Smith and Son (Glasgow) Ltd. notebook, annotated 'Anglo-Saxon poetry', containing notes of William McIlvanney., [?1966-?2015].
File
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 5(34)
Scope and Contents
Also includes "In Adam's Room".
Dates:
[?1966-?2015].
'Jottings relative to Col. Graham's Acct 1799-1800', written by John Graeme, Writer to the Signet., 1799.
Item
Identifier: MS.16118
Dates:
1799.
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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Journals, diaries, notebook and account books chiefly of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
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'Jottings relative to Col. Graham's Acct 1799-1800', written by John Graeme, Writer to the Signet, in two notebooks.
'Jottings relative to Col. Graham's Acct 1799-1800', written by John Graeme, Writer to the Signet., 1800.
Item
Identifier: MS.16119
Dates:
1800.
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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Journals, diaries, notebook and account books chiefly of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
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'Jottings relative to Col. Graham's Acct 1799-1800', written by John Graeme, Writer to the Signet, in two notebooks.