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Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Item
Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Dates:
1783-1828.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Item
Identifier: MS.24779
Dates:
1840-1854.
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents
As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).
Dates:
1818-1827.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.