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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 on navigation and nautical science.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13897
Content Description

A notebook containing definitions and notes on trigonometry, navigation, celestial observation, copies of ships' journals dated 1817, and some illustrations. Written by James Cook, South Ferry-Port on Craig (Tayport), in 1817. The writer was born in Ferry-Port on Craig on 17 July 1797. He married Catherine Jack in 1819, and three of their children (Thomas, b. 1822, Jean (b. and d. 1825) and Catharine (b. 1825) are listed at the back.

Dates: 1817

"Notebook Poins" of George Crabbe., 1827.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42079
Scope and Contents

Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 295 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.

Dates: 1827.