Commonplace books
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
[Commonplace book].
Copies of Parliamentary papers, including speeches, orders, petitions, and declarations. Most printed in Lords Journals or in Rushworth. Includes items from parliaments of Elizabeth I through James II, most between 1630-1680.
Amos Sheffield Chesebrough papers
Sermons, speeches, diaries, and commonplace books of Amos Sheffield Chesebrough and four letters from Joseph Hopkins Twichell. The diaries were kept during a trip to Europe in 1857 in which Cheesebrough visited London, Heidelberg and other German cities. The sermons, which make up the major portion of the papers, span the period when he was pastor in churches in Chester, Glastonbury, Vernon and Durham, Connecticut.
Commonplace book, circa 1753-1760
Contains extracts from his reading (chiefly Pope and Shakespeare) and rough drafts of projected essays on painting.
[Commonplace book, anonymous manuscript]
Subjects include chivalry, tournaments, coronations, and heraldry.
Commonplace book: given to young Reynolds by his father, circa 1730-1741
Contains records copied from the family Bible and quotations from his reading. The latest date in the book is a year after Reynolds went to London to study under Thomas Hudson.
Asa Fitch papers
Twenty-one diaries, 1821-1879, of Asa Fitch, scientist and entomologist. The diaries reflect in considerable detail Fitch's life and thoughts from early adolescence through his education at the Rensselaer School in Troy, New York and the Vermont Academy of Medicine in Castleton, his career as a scientist and state entomologist in New York, and his retirement. Also included are papers and genealogical materials relating to other members of the Fitch family.
Edward FitzGerald collection
Includes commonplace book of FitzGerald; letters from FitzGerald to Herman Biddell (1863-81), Joseph Fletcher, Francis Hindes Groome, Robert Hindes Groome, Mssrs Smith and Elder, and four unidentified recipients.
[Parliamentary speeches and two treatises].
Anonymous MS, written in various scribes' hands. Original limp vellum.
[Miscellanea historica: Collection of papers of historical interest relating to the reigns of James I and Charles I]
Laurence Heyworth collection of English religious manuscripts
Hillhouse family papers
Copies of letters to and from Col. William Legge, transcribed from the originals in the possession of William Fourth Earl of Dartmouth, during the years 1816 and 1817, by William, 2nd Lord Bagot.
Autograph MS. Contains copies of 373 letters, illustrated with prints and drawings.
William Crosby Marshall papers
The bulk of the papers consists of two textbooks and a notebook on the construction of ships dating from his enrollment in the École d'Application du Gènie Maritime in Paris, 1906-1907. Also included are later notebooks and drawings on engineering projects. Also in the papers is a commonplace book kept by Harriette N. Marshall.
[Miscellaneous Parliamentary manuscripts]
[Parliamentary extracts, lists, etc.]
[Parliamentary speeches, debates, etc. and other miscellaneous manuscripts]
[Parliamentary speeches, negotiations, etc., (most from 1640-1641)]
[Commonplace book]
Manuscript, in several unidentified hands, containing tracts on Parliament, verse, etc.
Joshua Reynolds Archive
The collection comprises correspondence, notebooks, writings, and other manuscript material by or about the artist Joshua Reynolds.