Shorthand.
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.
Excerpts from scripture written by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun in a form of shorthand (most vowels omitted)., 18th century.
‘[Gospel Sonnets] or Spiritual Songs’, in the autograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, preceded and followed by matter in shorthand.
Two versions of part vi, chapter v, section 1, ‘In heavenly quires a question rose’, are given (folios 119, 122).
Lectures, lecture notes and journals of James Wright and Walter Macleod, ministers of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh.
For James Wright's career, see David Scott, ‘Annals and statistics of the Original Secession Church’ (Edinburgh, 1886), pages 562-563.
Walter Macleod succeeded Wright in the charge of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh on the latter's death in 1879.
Legal notebook in shorthand, with references to cases for illustration.
Inside the notebook on the board is written ‘Mich[s] Term. 12 Geo. II. 1738. C.B.’
Legal notebook ‘on law and practice’ in shorthand.
Subjects on the margin in ordinary writing, remarks in shorthand in centre of page. No name or date.
Military memoirs of General Thomas Wentworth relating to the War of the Austrian Succession, partly in shorthand., 1747.
Interspersed with the memoirs are copies and drafts of letters of General Thomas Wentworth to Henry Fox, the Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Henry Pelham. There is also a 'List of Ministers at Vienna, 1747' (folio 104).
Miscellaneous papers, including diary and three shorthand notebooks., 1945.
Note-book of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, inscribed on the outside paper cover, 'Rev. Ralph Erskine 1714-1720'., 1714-1720.
The note-book is wholly in shorthand.
Note-book of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, inscribed on the outside paper cover, 'Rev. Ralph Erskine (underneath 'Rev. Ebenr. Erskine') 1709'., 1709.
The note-book also contains some letters and notes of later dates, and is mainly in shorthand.
Note-books of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, containing notes of sermons., 1709-1720.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Notebook of Sir James Matthew Barrie, for rough notes on Alexander Campbell Fraser's lectures on logic and metaphysics., 1880-1881.
The notebook also contains the rough work for the notes written out fairly in MS.6656. Much is in shorthand. There are also rough notes on mathematics and natural philosophy.
Notebook of Sir James Matthew Barrie originally intended for rough notes on George Chrystal's mathematical lectures, but also containing notes on natural philosophy, logic, and metaphysics., 1880-1881.
At the end of the notebook (folios 1-7 inverted) are further notes on philosophers and philosophy; these are mainly in longhand, whereas the other notes, apart from the actual working out of problems, etc., are for the most part in shorthand.
Notes, 1857-1866, partly in shorthand, for lectures by James Wright, chiefly for a class on the Westminster Confession and the Testimony of 1827., 1856-1866.
The inverted folios contain lectures delivered in 1856.
Notes, in a late seventeenth-century hand, on religious and theological matters., Late 17th century.
The index and several pages at the end of the volume are in shorthand.
Notes in shorthand, written on pages 41 and 69 of "The muse's pocket companion" (Carlisle, 1785)., Late 18th century.
Notes of the lectures of Sir James Young Simpson, titled, "Midwifery by Dr. Simpson, Edinburgh, Nov. '52", taken, partly in shorthand, by Frederick Cock.
Pages 120-134 deal with Chloroform, its history, discovery, effects, and the rules for its use. On pages 240-241 there are drawings of apparatus for the use of chloroform.
Papers from the John Mabon Warden Collection of shorthand books.
Probably sermons or notes for sermons, written in shorthand., 18th century.
Some of the headings are in longhand and these are simply references to book, chapter, and verse of the Bible.
Reporter's notebook, undated, of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', in shorthand., [1947-1954.]
Sermon in shorthand of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on I Peter I, 12., 18th century.
Sermons of James Blair and William Eccles, Ministers at Paisley, taken down in shorthand.
There are some notes and summaries (folios 84, 204), proper names, and quotations in Latin (passim) in cursive script. A few leaves at the beginning are missing. The shorthand used resembles the system devised by T Metcalfe, (‘Radio-stenography, or short writing’) from which it was probably adapted by the copyist himself.
Shorthand notes by Robert Trail, bound with, and of the same date as, ‘Notes about saving illumination’ by James Hogg (Edinburgh, 1708)., 1708.
Robert Trail’s name appears on page 2.