| Description | Box of 18 notebooks and other small volumes, mostly belonging to Lady Hilda Madeleine Keith Falconer.
Volumes belonging to Lady Hilda Keith Falconer, several with loose enclosures:
1. Commonplace book, with signature and date 1918 on first page
2. Commonplace book, with signature and date Jan[uary] 1916 on first page
3. Commonplace book, with signature and date Feb[ruary]1922 on first page
4 Commonplace book, with signature and date 1913 on first page, but with entries and enclosures covering the war years
5. Commonplace book, with signature and date July [19]08 on first page
6 Commonplace book, with signature and date April 1902 on first page
7. Commonplace book, with signature and date 1929 on first page
8. Commonplace book, with signature on first page. Undated; with entries from 1930s
9. Notebook, signed on first page and with title "Algie's poems & extracts from his letters", containing poems, extracts and newspaper clippings referring to Algernon Blackwood. Contents dated 1892 - 1918
10. Small notebook, unsigned but in Lady Hilda Keith Falconer's hand, containing aphorisms and sentiments extracted from her reading. Dated "1912 - 15" on spine.
11. Five pocket diaries, unsigned but in Lady Hilda Keith Falconer's hand, containing lists of books read with short summary of their contents. Volumes dated 1898, 1900, 1906 and 1908, and undated in diary of 1930.
The box also contains:
Notebook, signed "Inverurie", containing notes on geology and related sciences, with illustrations. Undated, c. 1900
Two books relating to the [Masonic] Royal Order of Scotland, of which the 9th Earl of Kintore was Deputy Grand Master:
Constitution and laws of the Royal Order of Scotland, 1920
Ritual of the degrees of the Royal Order of Scotland, 1922 |