Commonplace books.
Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.
The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.
Commonplace book of Patrick Turner containing ‘Bolg an t-Sholair’ and other miscellaneous verse in Gaelic.
Commonplace book of Robina Chisholm, containing newspaper cuttings and transcripts of poems, chiefly of her brother Walter (1856-1877), a Berwickshire shepherd.
Commonplace book of Sir James Balfour titled ‘Some short memories and remarkable passages for the yeires of God 1653 & 1654’.
The manuscript is not printed in James Balfour’s historical works, as it was missing at the time when they were published.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Commonplace book possibly kept by the Minister of Kirkliston (Charles Ritchie in 1794).
Includes lists of communicants and of the inhabitants of the parish.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Commonplace book, probably English, mostly compiled from classical authors and church fathers.
Later authors include Bishop Stillingfleet (folio 197), Thomas Hooker (folio 92) and John Paul Marana, author of ‘The Turkish Spye’ (1686) (folio 178).
The date of the volume is no earlier than 1686.
Commonplace book, probably English, used by two different owners, the first circa 1642, the second circa 1716.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Commonplace books and photograph album of Gael Turnbull.
Commonplace books, note books and song collections, partly in Gaelic, of Frances Tolmie, Rev. Alexander McDonald Cornfute Tolmie and John Tolmie.
Composite volume consisting of several commonplace books of William Thoirs of Muiresk, born 1666, covering the years 1705-1724, but also containing earlier material.
Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Further papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan.
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.