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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:

Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description

A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.

The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.

Dates: ca. 1800-1823

Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).

Dates: 2001-2012.

Gaelic notebooks, ca. 1950-1970

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14003/21-31
Scope and Contents

Eleven notebooks on subjects concerning Gaelic literature and culture, folk traditions and Highland life. Most of the contents are written in Gaelic. The notebooks are undated, but the majority bear the name of Glasgow Academy, where Macintosh began to teach in 1953, and were probaby compiled between that year and the late 1960s. Some of the notes can be dated to the 1960s due their link to Macintosh's activity as a contributor to newspaper columns.

Dates: ca. 1950-1970

Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart., 1767-1804, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8290-8324
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, drafts and memoranda concerning the genealogical researches of Andrew Stuart for his ‘Genealogical history of the Stewarts’, and other works.

Dates: 1767-1804, undated.

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.

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.