She had great powers of observation from an early age, and a manuscript notebook survives in which she describes her circle.

These consist of holograph manuscripts, typescripts, book proofs, manuscript notebooks, and correspondence.

Crohmălniceanu also writes: "the musings comprised in his manuscript notebooks [...] are restrained, flat, commonplace, as if the work of a different man."

We also have the manuscript notebooks of two acts of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' as part of a contemplated four-act play.

He seems to have continued to revise it over the next several years, since a manuscript notebook contains draft material made not earlier than June 1746.

Most of his poetry, however, remained unpublished, but was carefully preserved in an undated manuscript notebook.

He met with considerable opposition, but the first definite reference to proceedings against him occurs in a manuscript notebook of Oliver Heywood, under date 29 May 1681.

And so I was left with a number of manuscript notebooks in my hand, and a great emptiness in my heart.

An item of special personal interest in the collection is John Exley's manuscript notebook on mathematics from his undergraduate years.

In 1840 the library published its first list of publications in a manuscript notebook.