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Exercise books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notebooks of usually ruled pages used by school children for the writing or drawing of exercises.

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Exercise-book, containing a list of debts of the Reverend John Thomson of Duddingston, February 1826, his income and expenditure account, 1826, and a list of his pictures sold in 1826-1827, with titles, prices, and names of those who commissioned them., 1826-1831.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3167
Scope and Contents

Loose sheets, containing a list of debts paid and outstanding since February 1826, and the income and expenditure account for 1827-1828, 1830-1831, which gives particulars of certain pictures, have been sewn into the book (folios 11-23). All the accounts are in Alexander Macdonald's hand. See MS.3135 (xxv).

Dates: 1826-1831.

Exercise-book, containing 'Lord John, a Fife Tale', a poem, ?1895, by Thomas Swan, handloom weaver, Leslie, Fife.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3015
Scope and Contents

Other poems (one of circa 1893) and letters with which Thomas Swan sent them to Professors David Masson and John Chiene, 1895, have been inserted at the beginning.

Dates: [Circa 1893], 1895.