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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 Robert Garioch Sutherland containing a collection of quotations titled ‘Powder and Shot’., 1936.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26578
Scope and Contents

The quotations are followed by two lectures for schoolchildren on the Christian faith (folio l5), 'Poems of the Thirties', a collection (folio 22), and notes from Joseph Klausner, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ (London, 1925) (folio 31).

Dates: 1936.

Notebook of Robert Louis Stevenson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10650
Scope and Contents

Includes biographical notes on Jean Cavalier and drafts of "The Spaewife" and other poems.

Dates: circa 1881.

Notebook of Robert Louis Stevenson containing drafts of poems, sketches, notes for ‘The black arrow’ and other jottings., ?1883.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19637
Scope and Contents

The notebook includes 'Lord Nelson and the tar' (folio 2), as well as three other published and several unpublished poems. The sketches may be designs for woodblocks to illustrate the 'Moral emblems'.

Dates: ?1883.

Notebook of Robert Young, a merchant in Kinross, concerning the hamlet of Meikle or Wester Balgedie in the parish of Portmoak.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15930
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains a key to a sketch of Meikle Balgedie (the sketch itself is missing); a history of the Youngs and other families in the parish; a list of proprietors and tenants of Portmoak in 1807; and material on methods of agriculture. This last was used by the author's grandson, Robert S. Young, in ‘About Kinross-shire and its folk’, pages 21-23.

Dates: 1852.