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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:

Anonymous illustrated notebook entitled `Anatomical Charts`.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13419
Scope and Contents

This notebook is probably the work of a student of human anatomy or surgeon. There are 29 pages of drawings of human anatomy and related comments. Many of the drawings are coloured; some are tipped in. With some drawings of landscapes and botanical specimens.

The volume is bound in an original vellum binding with marbled endpapers.

Dates: 1832

Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents

William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.

Dates: 1778-1961, undated.

Approximately 80 notebooks and files, 1973-2003 and undated, of Tessa Ransford, containing draft poetry and prose, literary notes and research, holiday diaries and other personal papers; with a few university notebooks, circa 1960.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13195
Scope and Contents

A collection of XXX notebooks and several files of Tessa Ransford, relating mainly to her literary and creative life as a poet and writer. Also includes a few notebooks from her student days at Edinburgh University.

Dates: 1960-2003.

Articles by L Graham H Horton-Smith based on Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn's notes, together with related transcripts and papers., 1666-1918, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3566
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Articles contributed by L Graham H Horton-Smith to ‘Notes and queries’ (1945), based on Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn's notes: 'The Grahams or Grahames of Claverhouse' and 'Grahams, Burgesses and Town Councillors of Dundee' (folio 1);Typed transcripts of various records relating to persons named Graham, including the baptismal register of Mr Robert Norie, Episcopalian Minister at Dundee, 1722-1726 (folio 19);A notebook of...
Dates: 1666-1918, undated.

Autograph notebook of poems, largely unpublished, by Sorley MacLean (1911-1996).

 Item
Identifier: MS.14966
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) “Shaoil mi i bhith fo éislean”, 2 stanzas (folio 1);(ii) “Dh’aontaich mo reusan ‘s mo chridh”, 10 lines (middle of folio 1);(iii) “‘S tusa Shomhairle ‘chuis-bhurte”, 4 lines (folio 2);(iv) ‘Mo chasan brist aig Alamein’, 4 lines (folio 3);(v) “Oidhche de ‘n dà bhliadhna”, 17 lines. ‘An Trom-laighe’. (‘Spring tide and Neap Tide’, page 129) (folio 5);(vi) “‘S mi ris an neo-dhealgach”, 6...
Dates: 1943.

'Betting books' of the Earl of Rosebery containing miscellaneous brief jottings., 1882-1909.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10180-10185
Scope and Contents

The notebooks refer to the Earl of Rosebery's reading and travels and his own reflections, and most of them also contain notes on conversations held with Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Bismarck, Asquith and others.

Dates: 1882-1909.