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Brotherton Collection2
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commonplace-books2
english poetry1
aphorisms and apothegms1
proverbs, english1

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Ewing, James Cameron1
Lewis Family1
Cook, Davidson (1874-1941)1
Cook, Davidson1
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)1

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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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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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