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 230 Collections and/or Records:
Educational, literary, cultural and miscellaneous papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15508-15518
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: MS.50700
Scope and Contents
The "First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns is the earliest collected work written by the poet. Written before he achieved national status following the publication of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' (1786), Burns himself explained the need to create the volume, hoping that after his death it would fall into the hands of someone who would appreciate their value.The "First Commonplace Book" contains some of Burns's earliest surviving work and contains examples of Burns's...
Dates:
1783-1785.
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13843/1-13
Content Description
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Dates:
1712-1947, undated.
Further papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14268/1-42
Scope and Contents
Comprising Lord Macmillan's commonplace books with notes on his scholarly and personal reading; papers on his professional service and appointments, including a collection of press cuttings documenting his career; and fragments of correspondence and literary drafts, with photographs and family ephemera.
Dates:
1887-1952.
Journal and commonplace book of an inhabitant of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.5270
Dates:
1836-1844.
Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny.
File
Identifier: MS.15393
Scope and Contents
The narrative covers the period from 21 December 1855 to 3 July 1861, but with several gaps, and is followed (folio 131) by a miscellany of notes and memoranda on various topics including moral maxims, medical and household recipes, puzzles and mathematical formulae. From the formality of the layout and handwriting, the photographs and drawings pasted in at various places, and the poems and extracts interspersed in the narrative, it seems likely that this is a fair copy written up at leisure...
Dates:
1855-1861.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10342-10370
Dates:
1752-1885, undated.
Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey., 17th century-1900.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5785-5801
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
17th century-1900.
Journals, diaries and commonplace books of David Anne Bannerman., 1835-1842, 1861, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6579/2-4
Dates:
1835-1842, 1861, undated.
Letters and papers of the Rev William Stevenson and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11421
Dates:
1810-1869.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates:
1962-2010.
Literary papers of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman., 1876, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9893/43-45
Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto., 1836-1880.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19457-19470
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Nina, Countess of Minto was the daughter of General Sir Thomas Hislop and granddaughter of Hugh Elliot. Lady Minto's papers reflect her wide ranging interests. She was the author of ‘A memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot’, of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751-1806’, and of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1807-14’. Her papers contain much material relating to these publications and also to her unpublished works....
Dates:
1836-1880.
Manuscript commonplace book entitled "Fancy Gleanings".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9783
Dates:
circa 1818.
Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden., 1605-1710.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2053-2062
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1605-1710.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
Microfilm of commonplace book chiefly containing historical materia
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1087
Dates:
17th century.
Microfilm of commonplace book of Robert Edward (1616-1696), minister of the Murroes
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.853
Dates:
[?1635-?1670.]
Microfilm of commonplace book of Sir John Wedderburn, physician (1599-1679).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.290
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Microfilm of commonplace book of William Drummond of Hawthornden, commencing with a collection of anecdotes, pasquils, jests, epitaphs, impresas, etc., entitled 'Democritie, a labyrinth of delight'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1269
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Microfilm of late 15th century manuscript, the commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.184
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Microfilm of letter books, 1848-1851, and commonplace book, 1839, of Sir Charles Malcolm., 1839, 1848-1851.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1397
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letter book, 1848-1849 (Acc.12150/35);
Letter book, 1850-1851 (Acc.12150/36);
Commonplace book, 1839 (Acc.12150/37).
Dates:
1839, 1848-1851.
Microfilm of papers, 1592-1654, of Sir James Balfour; and, sermons, 1660, of Presbyterian preachers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.361
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
“Order of King Charles’ entering Edinburghe in stait at ye vest porte, and his march trough the towne to Holyrood House 15 Junij 1633”, and notes on other ceremonies, by Sir James Balfour, in his own handwriting (Adv.MS.15.2.17);Notes, 1592-1606, of Sir James Balfour on the order of court dignitaries on ceremonial occasions. (Adv.MS.15.2.18);Collection of sermons, 1660, by Presbyterian preachers (Adv.MS.15.2.20);Commonplace...
Dates:
1592-1660.
Microfilm of papers of Maria Edgeworth, part 3, reel 2., 1793-1847.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1206
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1811-1847, of, but mostly to, Maria Edgeworth (Acc.6931, MSS.936, 23130-23131);
‘Pen and nib in leather case belonging to Sir Walter Scott, given by him to Maria Edgeworth.’ Also a portrait. 1823, 1825 (MS.23132);
‘Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems’, 1793-early 19th century (MSS.2720-2723).
Dates:
1793-1847.