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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:

Legal notebook ‘on law and practice’ in shorthand.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.7
Scope and Contents

Subjects on the margin in ordinary writing, remarks in shorthand in centre of page. No name or date.

Dates: 18th century.

Legal notebooks and law books of George Fergusson, Lord Hermand., 1781-1799, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25743-25758
Scope and Contents

George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.

Dates: 1781-1799, undated.

Letters and papers of, and concerning, General Sir George Murray.

 File
Identifier: MS.21192
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1810-1817, of, to, and concerning, General Sir George Murray, including two letters from Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington; with a notebook in Sir George's hand, chiefly concerning the Peninsular War (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and legal papers, 1824-1825, concerning Erskine v Murray (folio 29); (iii) Letter, 1845, of Sir George Murray probably to General Paul Anderson (folio 70).

Dates: 1810-1845.

Letters, field diary, copies of off prints of articles, and map relating to the Oxford-Cambridge natural history expedition to St Kilda., 1910, 1931-1933.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11628/218
Scope and Contents Containing:(i) Letters (1 each), 1931, from father of John Norman Stuart Buchan and from Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, then proprietor of the islands.(ii) Field diary while on St Kilda, July 1931.(iii) Copies of off prints of articles produced by the expedition John Norman Stuart Buchan, T H Harrisson and David Lack, ‘The early autumn Migration at St Kilda in 1931’ from The Scottish Naturalist, January-February, 1932; and Harrisson and J A Moy-Thomas,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1910, 1931-1933.

Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8463-8481
Scope and Contents

David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.

Dates: 1845-1964.

Letters of Isobel Field, née Osbourne, (`Teuila`), step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, to Charles Paine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12014
Scope and Contents

Includes Isobel Field`s "Precious Book" containing notes on art technique and a photograph of her in old age.

Dates: 1936-1948.

Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11590
Scope and Contents

Includes related family letters and photographs.

Dates: 1948-1970 and undated.