Commonplace books.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which noteworthy literary passages, cogent quotations, poems, comments, recipes, prescriptions, and other miscellaneous document types are written.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace book of Alexander Fraser Tytler., ?1778-1802.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11737/5
Scope and Contents
Includes observations and anecdotes on contemporary Enlightenment figures including Dugald Stewart, James Boswell, Tobias Smollett and Lord Kames, and an inventory of Fraser Tytler’s publications up to 1793. Also included are copies of letters sent by David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes), and a number of verses by William Shenstone, Allan Ramsay, James Beattie and William Shakespeare translated into Latin by Fraser Tytler.
Dates:
?1778-1802.
Commonplace books of Alexander Fraser Tytler., ?1778-1812.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11737/5-6
Scope and Contents
Includes notes and observations on contemporary Enlightenment figures.
Dates:
?1778-1812.
Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11737/1-8
Scope and Contents
Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.