Let me sketch the scene and its surroundings where these "jottings round the stove" are made.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
His own writing was usually limited to jottings in a note-book and to post-cards.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
She was utterly and completely taken aback, and for some moments simply stared at the jottings in dead silence.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston