Found 34 collections related to Commonplace books

A commonplace book kept by Edward Schütte circa 1833 containing geographical and statistical notes about America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia; statistics relating to the British Royal Marines and Royal Navy in 1832; and memoranda on the wonders of natural history, and on voyages and shipwrecks. In German less

Possibly put together by relatives of the Reverend John Leroux, Rector of Long Melford, Suffolk, who died in 1819. He had two children: George Wilson Leroux, an army officer who died in 1822 at the age of 27; and Louisa Mary Leroux, who died in 1836. Mixed volume of manuscript and printed material. On the front free endpaper (half of which is cut away) is scripted in ink, on the verso, "Began in the year 1821," followed by a later pencil addition, "by [?] Leroux of Long Melford." Leaves 1-52 and 75-77 are in manuscript, in divers hands, and contains a mixure of prose and verse, the prose typically being anecdotes of famous people. A short poem criticizing Shelley's Prometheus Unbound is on leaf 41 recto; another on Byron's Cain is on leaf 42 recto. Leaves 78-122 contain mostly pasted-in printed material (clippings of newspaper stories and poems) but also two small pasted-in manuscript pieces: a short letter addressed to "Madam" dated 1827, and a four-line joke. Also included in this section is a small broadside, "Memoirs of Buonaparte," with a hand-colored "hieroglyphic portrait" of Napoleon; and a handbill, "To the Capital Burgesses, and Burgesses at large of the Town of Wisbech," by Thomas Skrimshire. The remainder of the volume is mostly blank with occasional printed illustrations pasted in, including an engraving of "Long Melford Hall, Suffolk" and two hand-colored etchings by T. L. Busby: "More free than welcome" and "Many a slip between the cup the Lip" (dated Feb. 1827). Laid in is a post card with an engraving of Woodhill House in Danbury and "With Best Wishes" printed at the bottom. less

Eugénie de Vergès, née Choppin d'Arnouville. She was born on September 13, 1774 to René Choppin d'Arnouville, chevalier, a counsellor to Louis XV and president of the Cour des Monnaies; and his wife, Marguerite-Élizabeth de Chazot. On February 4, 1793, in Paris, she married Jacques-Claude de Vergès. Their first son, Marie Fortuné (1794-1864), was a notable civil engineer; their second son, Adolphe Florimond (1795-1875), was a councillor at the Cour de Cassation. Eugénie de Vergès died on April 4, 1843. The larger of the two volumes (89 manuscript pages; 77 total leaves + 4 loose manuscript inserts) is a commonplace book containing original poems, translations, and notes on a variety of subjects. On the front paste-down is a contemporary note ("Ouvrages de Mlle Eugénie Choppin, depuis Mde. Devergès, faits depuis l'anée 1790") and the large engraved stationer's ticket of De Lermoy, Versailles. The smaller volume (40 manuscript pages; 75 total leaves) is chiefly devoted to accounts and contains entries from 1811 to 1840; with the stationer's ticket of Niodot, Place du Vieux Louvre. Both volumes in contemporary green boards. less

William Jenkins, pells office, Treasury Chambers, Dublin Castle, deputy clerk of the pells. Two of his sons were William Jenkins (1805-1874), lawyer, of Clifton Court, near Bristol; and Thomas Lowten Jenkins (1812-1869), lawyer and rower, of Wraxall House, Somersetshire, who paracticed for a time in India. "M. Jenkins" may be the wife of the elder William Jenkins and the mother of the younger William and Thomas. Three manuscript notebooks of varying sizes containing excerpts on women and women's issues from various authors, most of whom are contemporaries: Byron, Southey, L.E.L., Thomas Gisborne, Madame de Staël, James Hogg, Thomas Moore, Bernard Barton, Madame Cottin, etc. The first notebook (MISC 2304) is made up of 23 full-sheet letter covers addressed to "William Jenkins / Treasury," sewn together and folded to make 92 pages (26 cm in height), each of which bears ink manuscript transcriptions in what appears to be the same hand. The second notebook (MISC 2305) is made up of six partial sheets sewn together and folded to make 24 pages (17 cm in height), of which 22 bear ink manuscript transcriptions, apparently in the same hand as the first volume. The third volume (MISC 2306) is a 30-page notebook (15 cm in height) in stiff marbled boards with the manuscript book label of "M. Jenkins," an unidentified member of the Jenkins family, perhaps the one responsible for all three notebooks. In addition to extracts on "woman," this volume also contains "Receipt for the Cure of Cancers," "To the Gouty the following article is copied," and "Gout Cordial," all in what appears to be a different hand from the rest of the volume. All three notebooks were formerly owned by the book collector Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS. 27051) and kept in buff wrappers labeled "Extracts on Woman.". less

Euphemia M. Olcott lived in New York City. Collection consists of Olcott's correspondence, 1892-1911; her diary of a trip to Europe, 1902-1903; school notebooks and compositions, 1856-1860; and commonplace books, 1850-1920. Also included are items removed from family albums, 1832-1834, and newsclippings, 1858-1911. less

Commonplace book of Henry Granbery, which he titled "Select Pieces in Prose, Blank Verse and Poetry: From the most eminent writers / And also a few pieces of Poetry written by Gentlemen in Norfolk." He kept this volume in Norfolk, Virginia beginning in January 1826. Inside front cover contains pencil drawing said to indicate the route taken from Norfolk to North Carolina by H.A.T. Granbery and his wife when they eloped less

John Wolcott Phelps (1813-1885) was a graduate of West Point, Brigadier General in the U.S. Army, and the presidential candidate of the anti-Masonic American Party in 1880. The collection consists of his correspondence, writings on politics and anti-Masonry, diaries recording his experiences in the Seminole War, Mexican War, the expedition against the Mormons in Utah, and the Civil War, and commonplace books recording his views on slavery, emancipation, presidential elections and other political matters of the day. less

Rushmore G. Horton (1826-1867) was editor of The Weekly Day Book (later the New-York Weekly Caucasian and the New-York Weekly Day-Book Caucasian), a New York City pro-slavery newspaper, as well the author of several publications, including The Life and Public Services of James Buchanan, The History of the Tammany Society, and A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in the United States, from 1861-1865. He was secretary of the Anti-Abolition States Rights Society and an active participant in the anti-abolitionist movement in New York State. The Rushmore G. Horton papers include correspondence, autographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous personal and financial papers. The collection includes letters to Horton, John H. Van Evrie, and Nathaniel R. Stimson as editors of the New York Weekly Day-Book Caucasian, as well as personal letters to Horton and his wife from George Pope Morris, Samuel F.B. Morse, William G. Brownlow, George Ripley, James Kirke Paulding, William Winter, Thomas H. Seymour, Thomas F. Bayard, and William H. Peck, and autographs by such notable figures as James Buchanan, James A. Bayard, Jr., John Cochrane, and Brigham Young. Miscellaneous papers include invitations, receipts, small notebooks, a certificate of membership to the Anti-Abolition State Rights Society, and a Confederate States of America bond with attached coupons. Most of the material has been pasted into a published blankbook intended for use as an index rerum. Loose material has been removed to separate enclosures. Additional items were added posthumously. less

William Bodham Donne made entries in this commonplace book between 1830 and 1860. It contains notes on books and historical/antiquarian subjects, some original poetry, classical criticism, and entries on other topics, along with extracts of poetry and prose, among them several memoranda concerning Milton's life and prose works and their political influence less

The collection consists of miscellaneous corporate records of Bowne & Co., Inc., and papers relating to the Bowne family of Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., including original letters by Robert Bowne and other members of the Bowne and related families. The collection was assembled by Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. (1924 - ) a former president and chairman of Bowne & Co., Inc. during the course of his research for his books on the history of the firm. less

The Butler, Huntington, Smith, Cooke, and Clinch families were united through intermarriage and included prominent lawyers, architects, doctors, judges, politicians, scientists, and land owners hailing from New York City, Long Island, Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Marblehead, Stockbridge and Worcester, Massachusetts. This collection spans multiple generations and consists of mostly 19th and 20th century family correspondence, financial and legal documents, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, personal miscellany, photographs and genealogical research. The papers reflect the personal, social, economic, and professional histories of these related families. less

Clifford Smyth was a literary critic and editor of the New York Times Book Review. The nature of Smyth's relationship to American actress, dramatist, and poet Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie is unknown. Smyth's papers consist of letters from William Dean Howells, Percy MacKaye, Richard Le Gallienne, and Upton Sinclair dating between 1914-1931. The papers also include a collection of commonplace books, prompt books, scripts, and other material belonging to Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie dating from the 1820s through the 1860s. less

Bound manuscript volume written from both ends, titled "Poetry" on the recto of the first leaf. Contains original verses and poems copied from contemporary publicatons. Of the original works, most are signed "V. L.," and the majority of the volume seems to be in the same hand. Copied works include traditional English ballad lyrics, as well as poems by Byron, John Clare, Joanna Baille and others. The earliest poems are dated "1818" and later poems refer to King William IV (coronated in 1831) and Queen Adelaide. Also included are three recipes. less

The item is a poetry notebook, dated circa 1820s-1840s, containing original and published vernacular poems with themes of death, loss, and spiritual consolation. The unbound volume probably originated in the Hudson River Valley of New York, based on references in the works. The identity of the notebook's creator is unknown. Poems tell of the deaths of promising youths, separation from family and friends occasioned by marriage or distant travels, the presence of God in nature, and illness. Dates referred to in the poems are not in chronological order, and only a few poems are dated. The last dated poem of April 20, 1843 describes a child's sighting of the Great Comet of that year. Notebook entries are written in ink by one person, probably a woman, with occasional misspellings; some entries are completed in different hands. The names Ann Catharine Hasard (i.e. Ann Catharine Hazard, Quaker educator, died 1830), Ruth Spencer or RS, "D .... Wing," and J. Haight appear as apparently unpublished poets. Quaker connections can be seen in poems by or about John Mott, Job Scott, Mary Peisley, and Hugh Judge, and in an elegy on the death of Mercy E. Read at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess County. Some unattributed works can be traced to contemporary periodicals, hymns, and miscellanies of 18th- and 19th-century British and American poetry. Also found are copied popular American broadside elegies such as "A Tribute to the Memory of Catherine Berrenger." less

Anna Georgia Bayliffe of Pickwick, Corsham, Wiltshire, England. She was the child of George Searle Bayliffe (1734-1813), deputy lieutenant for the county of Wiltshire, and his wife, Ann (née Banks). Anna Georgia died of typhus at age 22 on 27 June 1823, just two months after her younger brother, Charles Searle Bayliffe, died from the same disease. A memorial commonplace book in the hand of the author's mother, Ann Banks Bayliffe, who provides a summary of the volume's contents on the first page: "Prayers meditations & reflections of my dearly beloved daughter Anna Georgia Bayliffe copied from various scraps of Paper found by me after her decease. -- Ann Bayliffe, 1825." Also includes: a copy of a theological essay by the copyist's son, Charles; the copyist's memorial statement for her deceased husband and children; and two silhouette portraits, of Anna and Charles. less

Rev. John Raines, Jr. (1818-1877), born in Yorkshire, England, was an itinerant Methodist Episcopal minister associated with the Genesee Conference of New York State. He was the son of Rev. John Raines (born ca. 1784) and Mary Raines, who emigrated from England to Philadelphia, eventually settling in Canandaigua, New York. John Raines, Jr. married Mary Remington in 1838. Their sons John Raines (1840-1909), author of the Raines Law, and Thomas Raines (1842-1924) were prominent New York State politicians. Commonplace book and record book of services performed 1847-1872 by Rev. John Raines, Jr. as a Methodist Episcopal minister in western New York State. Services are recorded in chronological order. Records of baptisms, 1848-1871 (p. 30-45) note individual names, place, date and age; marriages 1847-1871 (p. 148-168) note bride and grooms' names, place, date, expenses and fees; records of funerals 1844-1872 (p. 52-71) note name, place, date of death, disease and age. Localities visited in Ontario County and other western counties include Victor, Geneva, Lima, Lyons, Corning, Hodding, Rochester, Lyons, and Elmira, among others. Personal material interspersed throughout the volume include transcriptions of poetry, anecdotes, and historical and theological items; clippings; personal memoranda; a family record of John Raines Jr. and Mary Remington and their children (p. 73), with a Christmas poem signed J. Raines, Philadelphia, 1831, loosely laid in; and a manuscript architectural plan for a dwelling house (p. 108-109). Original writings include verses by John Raines signed with place and date, many written for personal albums or as epitaphs for tombstones, as well as patriotic verses written during the Civil War, 1861-1864. Also present is a pasted subscription notice (p. 143) signed by Francis Asbury at Little York, 10 July 1815, addressed to the Presiding Elder of the Genesee Conference. less