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commonplace-books14
english poetry11
cooking2
recipes2
aphorisms and apothegms1
children's drawings1
christian poetry, english1
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english drama1

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Berkeley, George (1685-1753)1
Berkeley, George, 1685-17531
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)1
Coles, Benjamin1
Cook, Davidson1
Cook, Davidson (1874-1941)1
Ewing, James Cameron1
Johnston, G A (1888-)1
Johnston, G. A1
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Robert Burns's Commonplace book, 1783-1785 : reproduced in facsimile from the poet's manuscript in the possession of Sir Alfred Joseph Law, M.P

Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Ewing, James Cameron; Cook, Davidson (1874-1941)

1938

"Limited to four hundred and seventy-five copies of which four hundred and twenty-five are for sale... [etc.]".

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Berkeley's commonplace book

Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Johnston, G A (1888-)

1930

"The text of this edition is based on a careful examination of the manuscript (British museum Add. Ms. 39305) by Mr. A. J. Watson."--Editor's pref.

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BC MS Lt 23, p. 1: The opening of
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Swattle, and other poems

1723

Manuscript book devoted almost entirely to the long narrative poem 'Swattle', a humorous hudibrastic narrative recounting the life and adventures, largely in Ireland, of a rascally physician Swattle w...

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Roger Senhouse, notebooks and literary papers including some letters

Senhouse, Roger (1899-1970)

c.1937-1970

Comprises: (1) 6 autograph manuscript notebooks kept by Roger Senhouse between ca. 1942 and 1962, numbers 1, 3, and 4 being commonplace-books (chiefly containing notes on books and on meetings with ot...

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BC MS Lt 110, f. 5r: The opening of
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BC MS Lt 91, f. 133r:
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Commonplace book of English verse, drama, and prose by various authors, including Robert Southwell and Josuah Sylvester.

c.1650-c1700

Contains prose, dramatic pieces, and 142 poems, mostly anonymous, but including 10 by Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and 17 by Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618). The text was compiled in the second part of...

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Cookery and commonplace book, compiled partly by Margaret Walker

Walker, Margaret

1778-1869

At one end of the book is a collection of cookery recipes and notes on family and local events. At the other end, inverted, is a collection of poems and notes on further local events. On end-paper: 'M...

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Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.

c.1720-1830

Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...

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BC MS Lt 103, f. 13r: The opening of
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Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

Marriott, Eliza

c.1740-1804

Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.

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BC MS Lt 82, f. 137v: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing verse and historical prose

c.1690

Following initial blank, ff.2r-136v: prose accounts in a single hand of Edward VI, John of Gaunt, Sir Edward Poynings and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of tournaments and of "the vast power formerly enjo...

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BC MS Lt 109, p. 1: The opening of
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Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.

Lewis family

c.1700-1750

Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.

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BC MS Lt 84, f. 23v - 24r: The opening of Sir Francis Hubert's poem
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Commonplace book of English religious poems and prayers

c.1715

Ff.1r-6r (verso blank): miscellaneous notes in Latin and Greek; ff.7r-41r: twenty-four poems on religious subjects, beginning with two by Joseph Addison (from 'The Spectator' 489 and 513) and includin...

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