About finding fascinating hand scribbled notes from books of the past ...

I discovered this in a scanned collection of old books maintained by our government ministry of culture ...

there are comments on some pages (see pages 8, 11, 17 for example) including the cover. in some places the scribbler who seems be an authority on the subject himself expresses some rebuttals/commentary on the text's shortcomings

Book Title: Vocabulary of Gentoo and English

link: https://indianculture.gov.in/rarebooks/vaokaaabaularaii-apha...

PS: this was the first time I stumbled across, and discovered that "Gentoo" was another name used by the British for the "Telugu" language of Southern India. I am a native speaker of Telugu and I never knew this fact.