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:
Microfilm of two commonplace books and manuscript of a lecture.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.122
Dates:
1665-1693, [1759, or before].
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 13., 1758-1890.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1325
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Diary, 1776, of Anne, Lady Stuart (MS.8224);Diary, 1777, of Anne, Lady Stuart (MS.8225);Diary, 1778, of Anne, Lady Stuart (MS.8226);Diary, 1779, of Anne, Lady Stuart (MS.8227);Diary, 1780, of Anne, Lady Stuart, followed by a diary, 1830, written by Anne Charlotte Maitland Stirling. (MS.8228);Diary, 1793, of Anne, Lady Stuart (MS.8229);Commonplace book, 1758, 'to Miss [Anne] Stuart, Castle...
Dates:
1758-1890.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 14., 1782-1912.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1326
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Typescripts of letters, 1782-1801, 1912, undated, of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, to his brother Robert, Lord President of the Court of Session, and others (MS.10225);Diaries, 1825-1852, of Lady Hislop (MS.13141-13144); Pocket-book, 1846-1847, of Lady Hislop containing notes of correspondence (MS.13145);Commonplace book, 1826-1827, of Lady Hislop (MS.13146);Personal account book, 1836-1848, of Lady Hislop...
Dates:
1782-1912.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1879-1887
Dates:
1623-19th century.
Miscellaneous manuscripts from Pitfirrane House, Fife., 1558-1897.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6503-6511
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates:
1558-1897.
Miscellaneous notebooks and printed matter of and relating to the Willison family., 1807-1994.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11049/69-76
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.
Dates:
1807-1994.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.
Miscellaneous notebooks of Jane Cockburn Ross., 1799-1826.
File
Identifier: MS.20482
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Commonplace books, 1804-1818, containing household accounts, family news, and anecdotes (folio 1); (ii) Recipe books [circa 1801]-1826 (folio 171); (iii) 'Registers of the weather' 1799-1826 (folio 247); (iv) Household accounts, 1808 (folio 415).
Dates:
1799-1826.
Miscellaneous papers., 1760-1868, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15176-15180
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Dates:
1760-1868, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Miscellaneous papers., 1891-1940, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12680/27-29
Miscellaneous papers chiefly of Robert Graham and Lord Lynedoch., 1771-[circa 1870], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16396-16404
Dates:
1771-[circa 1870], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
Miscellaneous papers of, and concerning, the Keith family., 15th century-1906, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21182-21186
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
15th century-1906, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1731-1792, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25418-25453A
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
1731-1792, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1683-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8222-8249
Miscellaneous papers of the Hays of Yester., 1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14778-14827
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Johnston family., Late 18th-early 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5811/11-21
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.
Dates:
Late 18th-early 20th century.
Miscellanous papers of Annie Isabella Dunlop, including a commonplace book, research notes, poetry, printed material, and photographic negatives., 1801, 1968, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6568/62-68
Negative microfilm of manuscripts, commonplace book and transcript of journal of Sir Walter Scott., 1792-1827.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.577
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Original manuscript, [1818, or before], of 'The heart of Midlothian' by Sir Walter Scott (MS.1548);Commonplace book, 1792-1803, bearing the name Gualterus Scott, containing notes and extracts on Italian poetry, Scottish history, Northern antiquities, ballads, romances, witchcraft, etc., in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph, with a few passages in other hands (MS.1568);Transcript of Sir Walter Scott’s journal, 1825-1827, copied in the...
Dates:
1792-1827.
Newspaper cuttings album of Charles Geekie Matthew.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14213
Scope and Contents
Containing clippings collected during Matthew's time as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, on the subjects of sport, politics, and current affairs, with poetry and songs.
Dates:
1879-1885.
Notebook II, containing anecdotes and songs in English, Scots and Gaelic, 1905 and undated
Item
Identifier: Acc.14025/6
Scope and Contents
A notebook compiled by John Tolmie, headed "II Songs" on the cover; 49 ff. Contains anecdotes, newspaper cuttings, sayings in Gaelic (f. 37) and songs in Scots, English and Gaelic. Undated except for a news cutting on f. 3, which is dated April 1905. Folios 17v-19v contain two songs by his brother Alexander McDonald Cornfute Tolmie: "Burial of Reuben a dog at Contin Manse, by A.M.C. Tolmie, 1884", and "A non-historical celebrity (Bella). Contin. - by A.M.C.T." Folios...
Dates:
1905 and undated
Notebook of Christina Struthers entitled 'Household Inventories and Commonplace Book'., 1864-1875.
Item
Identifier: MS.8901
Scope and Contents
The volume contains:
lists of household goods, 1864-1868 (folio 1);
a few diary entries, 1871 (folio 16);
an account of a visit to Braemar, 1873 (folios 24, 58);
an account of a tour in Switzerland, 1873 (folio 30);
and various literary, religious, and social observations, 1864-1875.
Some leaves were loose in the volume, and have been tipped in (folios 58-75); of these, folio 75 is an apparently unrelated recipe dated 1935.
Dates:
1864-1875.
Notebook ruled for cash, which was used for legal notes, elementary French exercises and as a commonplace book (folios 2-12, 1-34 verso inverted). The entries, the latest of which is dated 1739, are written mostly in Byrom`s system of shorthand, which was not published until 1767.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.4
Scope and Contents
The owner, who remains unidentified, was a young man, probably of wealthy family, studying law, possibly at one of the Inns of Court in London. Pages have been torn out after folios 11, 12 and 13 inverted; folios 30-34 are written sideways. The volume, which was received without the original covers, was unintentionally rebound upside-down, and incorrectly labelled on the spine ‘French Commonplace Book’.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Notebooks and commonplace books of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1731-1792, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25422-25438
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
1731-1792, undated.
Notebooks of Christina Struthers, wife of Sir John Struthers, the anatomist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8900-8901
Dates:
1861-1875.