1814 M. Edgeworth II. xxiii. 346 His Lordship put it into my hands, and I showed some pencil notes of my father's writing.
1937 52 1025 A blurred pencil-note in the Malone copy of Springes indicates the probable source.
1991 R. M. Coates (ed. 12) 86 The common practice of putting pencil notes on the abstract itself is to be deprecated as defacing an important document.