This was the order followed when the notebook was scanned as 143 TIFF files in 2013. MDAH staff numbered the notebook pages front to back (1-84, including several loose pages beginning with page 79) and then back to front (1v-67v). Of particular interest are the pages containing Choctaw words and phrases with their English equivalents (pages 10, 43-76). Of note is the list of inhabitants on the Big Black River, which includes the years they settled in the area (pages 19-23). Rapalji recorded memoranda of events, recipes, home remedies, and geographic notes regarding the Mobile and Tombecbe Rivers. a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda. A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers. A students exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied. He also dealt in livestock, as evidenced by the livestock inventories (pages 14 and 28). A book in which notes or memoranda are written. interviews, field notebooks, research memoranda, questionnaires, maps. Rapalji traded such items as thread, knives, gunpowder, salt, sugar, coffee, tobacco, and animal skins. This collection contains materials including but not limited to correspondence, proposals, reports, papers, data and research notebooks, and memoranda. course work, exam blue books and notebook, Government 24 1929-1930. Accounts include customer names, some of which are Choctaw, and a list of items purchased or traded as well as amounts owed and paid.

The notebook consists of a rather unassuming looking 5×7 inch cloth bound volume of 176 leaves of off-white paper entitled simply, ‘Memoranda’. x 15 cm., 137 pages) of George Rapalji of the Natchez District contains accounts, miscellaneous notes, and Choctaw vocabulary words for the period April 9, 1788, through April 1, 1797, written on forward and then reverse pages in the notebook. Whilst there are many complex processes at work in Dickens’s note-taking practices, here I address these habits of composition through one document of particular interest: Dickens’s Book of Memoranda.

Memoranda notebooks