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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:

Notebook of John Scott of Malleny, and his son, Thomas.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8112
Scope and Contents

Detailing estate and financial business.

Dates: circa 1703-circa 1720.

Notebook of John Wilson, chiefly containing miscellaneous notes and lists., 1830-1875.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8956
Scope and Contents

The contents include: notes, 1842-1852, undated, on the languages, religion, antiquities, and literature of Western India (folio 1); lists, 1830-1868, of those admitted to membership of the Church in Bombay (folio 154 verso); lists, 1831-1875, of children baptized in Bombay (folio 161); a list of books, 1875 (folio 190).

Dates: 1830-1875.

Notebook of John Wilson ('Christopher North')., 1811.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4885
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains the following:

(i) Lists of expenses (folios 2, 4);

(ii) A lList of births and marriages (folio 5);

(iii) Notes in connection with a law case (folios 1, 3, 6-9, 22 verso, 24);

(iv) Notes for a speech (folio 10).

Dates: 1811.

Notebook of John Wilson ('Christopher North'), containing chiefly verse., 1811.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4886
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains: lists of expenses and financial transactions (folios 2, 7); notes for a poem and an article (folios 24-25, 38); fragments of verse, possibly drafts for various projected poetical works, and unpublished in this form; and completed poems and sonnets. A number of the sonnets form part of a projected sonnet cycle on the Lake District which was apparently never completed.

Dates: 1811.

Notebook of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton., Circa 1784-circa 1820.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.8
Scope and Contents The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) descriptions of the `Religious Houses andc of Edinburgh` extracted from ‘History of Edinburgh’, pages 242-257, 263, 267-271, 561-563 (folio 1);(ii) an account of some of the cartularies and other registers of Scottish religious houses copied from ‘The Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation’, volume 1, pages 466-475 (folio 33);(iii) a note of some members of the family of Graeme...
Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.