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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:

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 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 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.

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.

Photocopy of a notebook of David Livingstone., 1852.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10711
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes of David Livingstone on Bantu languages (used in his ‘Analysis of the language of the Bechuanas’) (folio 2); various notes, inter alia, on animals (folio 57) and plants (folio 68); and an account of a conversation with a rain-doctor (folio 85); a sermon on missionary sacrifices (folio 90); and newspaper-cuttings.

Dates: 1852.

Photocopy of a notebook of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’, titled 'Explorations in search of a way of speaking'., 1955-1956.

 Item
Identifier: MS.27432
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes on poetry and style in James Hyman Singer, “Burns Singer's” own work (folio 3), reviews, articles, notes on the fishing industry, and many drafts of poems. Some of the latter were published in the ‘Collected poems’ (London, 1970).

Dates: 1955-1956.

Photocopy of memorandum book of David Geddes, father of Andrew Geddes, painter.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11863
Scope and Contents

Contains lists of David Geddes`s paintings, prints and books.

Dates: 1777-1793.