Commonplace books
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace Book
Collection
Identifier: MS-0474
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one manuscript commonplace book, with the holographic title, "Miscellanies in prose and verse."
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Commonplace Book
Commonplace Book
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030055689]
Identifier: MS-0336
Overview
This Commonplace book is a handwritten, bound manuscript of the late seventeenth century written in English. Subjects in the Commonplace book include asking advice and counseling, battles, boasting, how to make a conquest of another country, fear, the way to procure friends, and how to deal with a vanquished enemy.
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Commonplace Book
Commonplace Book
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030056695]
Identifier: MS-0473
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one commonplace book, perhaps created in Norfolk, England.
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Commonplace Book
Commonplace book collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0557
Overview
This collection consists of two commonplace books dating from the 19th century.
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Commonplace book collection
John Ayers papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0221
Overview
John Ayers was born in 1738 at Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. The collection consists of a diary (1766-1793), four commonplace books (1761-1802), and four notebooks of poems (1769- 1788).
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John Ayers papers
Ruth J. Stocking Lynch papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0190
Scope and Contents
Dr. Lynch's papers consist of correspondence, commonplace books, diaries, reminiscences, and travel journals.The correspondence dates from l9l0 to l947 and has about 500 items.The bulk of the letters are between Ruth Stocking and Vernon Lynch from l9l5 to their marriage in l918. Ruth's letters detail her teaching at Agnes Scott College, Wells College, and the Carnegie Institute. The letters also discuss her attempts to get new teaching or research positions. These letters are...
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Ruth J. Stocking Lynch papers