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Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
c.1650-1730
Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathemati...
Letter from 'Buff' to 'Marquis', by James Thomson.
Thomson, James (1700-1748)
1742
Autograph prose letter, dated 7 December 1742, ostensibly from Thomson's dog 'Buff' to another named 'Marquis', the pet of Mrs Mary Robertson, giving advice about canine conduct and morals. The letter...
Miscellany of prose writings with some poetry by various authors.
c.1690-1700
Comprises various essays on the control of the emotions, followed by several English poems and Jacobite verse satires, with various dates assigned to particular literary pieces, ranging from 1651 and ...
Conduct book, probably compiled during the early seventeenth century
c.1601-1650
Comprises moral instruction arranged into ten distinct sections according to the Contents list on f.1v, thus: (1) Gen[eral] observations, fol.2; (2) Busines, fol.35; (3) Know[ledge] of Men, fol.106; (...