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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:

Microfilm of the notebook of the storekeeper on David Livingston’s Zambesi Expedition.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20321
Scope and Contents

The notebook was chiefly kept by Thomas Baines and contains accounts of stores taken, notes on their issue, and records of provisions. Baines, better known as an artist, was dismissed by David Livingstone for alleged irregularities in the use of the stores, and an account of the enquiry is included.

Dates: 1858-1859.

Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates: 1750-1802.

Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart. Reel 17., [?1758-?1854.] 

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1310
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:  Letters, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with several anonymous letters, verses and other fragments addressed to or collected by Scott's mother (MS.1558);   Notebooks, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart (MSS.1623-1624);    "Ladies’ Album" (Edinburgh, undated), in which are pasted caricatures of persons, some of which are probably by John Gibson Lockhart (MS.1625);   Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and...
Dates: [?1758-?1854.] 

Microfilms notebooks of Christina Struthers, wife of Sir John Struthers, the anatomist.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1683
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Notebook, 1861-1871, of Christina Struthers entitled 'Records of the Children', discussing the appearance, character, and development of her several children (MS.8900);

Notebook, 1864-1875, of Christina Struthers entitled 'Household Inventories and Commonplace Book' (MS.8901).

Dates: 1861-1875.

Microfilms obtained from various agents of letters and documents of and concerning David Livingstone for inclusion in the ‘David Livingstone Documentation Project. (1979)., [1834-1864.]

 Series
Identifier: MS.10780 [Mf.MSS.270-283, 288]
Scope and Contents (1) Mf.MSS.270-272: Cape Town, South African Library (20 letters, 8 notebooks, and other items; 3 reels); (2) Mf.MSS.273: Lisbon, Arquivo Historico Ultramarino (3 letters); (2a) Mf.MSS.288: Livingstone, Zambia, National Museum (1 diary); (3) Mf.MSS.274-275: London, British Library (115 letters and documents; 2 reels); (4) Mf.MSS.276-279: London, Public Record Office (7 Foreign Office files; 4 reels); (5) Mf.MSS.280: London. Royal Geographical Society (47 letters and documents and 10...
Dates: [1834-1864.]