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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:

Notebooks of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes relating to theology, devotional, and church affairs., 1884-1959, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10022/79-91
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.

Dates: 1884-1959, undated.

'Odds and Ends', being the beginnings of a commonplace book of the 4th Earl of Minto., 1875.

 Item
Identifier: MS.12518
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates: 1875.

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.

Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet., [Circa 1745]-1777, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12815-12821
Scope and Contents From the Series:

As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Dates: [Circa 1745]-1777, undated.

Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal., 15th century-1927, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21174-21191
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-1927, undated.

Papers of the Reid family of Mouswald.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14327
Content Description The collection contains letters, 1838-76, to Sir James John Reid, Chief Justice of the Ionian Islands; letters, 1822-75, to Lady Reid; letters, 1859-1907, to their two sons, Robert T. Reid, Earl Loreburn, and John James Reid, advocate. There is also a folder of miscellaneous, mostly legal, documents concerning members of the family and dating mostly from the early 19th century. The collection also includes a commonplace book, dated 1839, of Sir James John Reid and a song book...
Dates: 1822-1907 and undated.

Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6542
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. corrected manuscripts of "Green Mantle" (1916), "The Three Hostages" (1924), "Montrose" (1928), "Memory-Hold-the-Door" (1940)

2. manuscript and typescript of "The Mountain", an unfinished novel

3. manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, 1904-1937

4. commonplace book, circa 1896

5. 30 letters, 1893-1940, of and to various correspondents, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, T E Lawrence, and Ezra Pound.

Dates: 1893-1940.

Photocopy of the cashbook, 1856-1858, of John Moffat.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8862
Scope and Contents

With commonplace book, 18th to 19th century, containing recipes, scientific and professional data, and genealogical material.

Dates: 18th century to 19th century.

Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.

 File
Identifier: MS.2232
Scope and Contents The following sections of the book are reproduced:(i) Poem on Cater Thun, beginning, 'Cold the wild blast that chills thy brow', 5 May 1796 (folio 1);(ii) 'To a Lady', lines beginning, 'For thee from Time's slow mouldering hold' (folio 3);(iii) Lines beginning, 'Farewell my dear Jamie, ah take my farewell', with the refrain, 'Lochaber no more' (folio 4);(iv) 'Elegy on Shenstone', beginning, 'Listless laid beneath a willow' (folio 5);...
Dates: 1796.

Poetry and commonplace book of John Willison (died 1841)., 1807-1809.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11049/69
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: 1807-1809.

Religious commonplace book, of the Napier family, containing, "A copy of some familiar letters which passed between intimate friends, as they were written from the originall's for the transcriber's private use".

 Item
Identifier: MS.3008
Scope and Contents The items are numbered, and there is a list of contents at the beginning and end.Most of the letters, which cover the period 1721-1781, with a few of 1707, are addressed by Archibald Napier of Bowhopple, Minister of Kilmadock, the transcriber's grandfather (see number 61), and his son, Thomas Napier of Greenhill, watchmaker in Glasgow, to Archibald Napier, apothecary in Edinburgh, and other members of the family. There are also copies of letters of other writers, hymns, sermons,...
Dates: 1707, 1721-1781.

Two commonplace books of George Glen Napier.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9098
Scope and Contents

Containing quotations from Tennyson`s "In Memorium", press cuttings and commentaries.

Dates: circa 1905-circa 1928.

Two commonplace books of John MacInnes, kept during his ministry in the Duars region of north India. Also containing narrative impressions of the region and its peoples, vocabulary and notes for services in the local languages and other related material., 1930-1934.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10022/79-80
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.

Dates: 1930-1934.

Two notebooks and a commonplace book of E H Mill of the Burn, Kincardineshire.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10469
Scope and Contents

Notebooks record travels and climbing expeditions in Italy, France and Spain.

Dates: 1872-1882 and undated.

Two notebooks, one containing poetry and the other a few legal and financial jottings of Lord Milton., 18th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17800-17801
Scope and Contents

In both volumes each page has been ruled in three columns, each column headed by three letters in an alphabetical sequence. The purpose for which this was intended has not been carried out and the volumes have been adapted for other uses.

Dates: 18th century.