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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 3337 Collections and/or Records:

Notebooks of John Rennie., 1784-1818, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19831-19929
Scope and Contents Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...
Dates: 1784-1818, undated.

Notebooks of Major-General John Brown., 1799-1803.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2866-2867
Scope and Contents

The notebooks contain personal notes, mathematical calculations, drawings connected with fortification and gunnery, and notes on mechanical devices, astronomical observations and apparatus, painting, etc.

Dates: 1799-1803.