He reached across his desk, picked up a paper with a few pencilled notes on it, and turned to me.

And so often I come across his pencilled notes on the margin and they seem like a message from him.

There was a pencilled note instead: No answer.

A pencilled note in the margin reads: '25 miles.

He made a pencilled note in a small black book, then stared again at the enemy line beneath its bright flags.

The pilot made a few pencilled notes in his book and collected his charts.

A pencilled note was at the foot of the folder.

It took him well over half-an-hour to complete his task, scrutinising every page, finding nothing, not even a pencilled note on the pages.

Two hours later Alix stopped writing; she had covered seven or eight pages with her pencilled notes.

I should remind you that the Minutes are written in ink, so it will be rather difficult to include a pencilled note, as you suggest.