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Diary of Isaac Stockton Clark
Clark, Isaac Stockton
1807-1813
Contains: (1) Extracts from poems; (2) List of "books which I intend [to] purchase when capable"; (3) Notes on family events (1800-1813); (4) Miscellaneous cash accounts
Cookery and commonplace book, compiled partly by Margaret Walker
Walker, Margaret
1778-1869
At one end of the book is a collection of cookery recipes and notes on family and local events. At the other end, inverted, is a collection of poems and notes on further local events. On end-paper: 'M...
Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems
c.1720-1748
Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...
Poetical commonplace book, partly in the hand of George Scott
Scott, George
c.1728-1779
Mainly poetical miscellany or commonplace book, in two hands, one c.1728-1750, the other seemingly that of George Scott, c.1766-1779. Fols 89v-90r: "Latin Proverbs with English Ones that answer to the...
Commonplace book
c.1719-1742
Contains Latin and English prose and poetry in several hands, c.1719-1742 or earlier, the main verse hand probably of the 1730s. Flyleaf recto "An account of the Beans", verso "Quaestiones quarum ment...
Poetical miscellany compiled by E. Beardwell
Beardwell, E
1724
'The six first Pastorals of Virgil, With Three of His Georgics; Together with some with [sic] Miscellany Poems [by various authors]. Transcrib'd and Collected By E. Beardwell, 1724'.
Autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations, by Sir Philip Wodehouse and Sir Edmund Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)
c.1664-1715
Notebook of autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations by Sir Philip Wodehouse, in sections interspersed with verse by his son Sir Edmund, mainly in the latter's hand. F.1v-55v, 57v, 58v-5...
Poetical commonplace book
c.1715
Poems transcribed on ff.2r-39v include five by Prior, three each by Waller and Isaac Watts, two each by Swift, Pope (1 unattributed), Motteux and Marvell, and one each by Ambrose Philips, Laurence Eus...
Commonplace book of proverbs and transcribed verse and prose
c.1690-c.1700
Ff.1r-6v: 'Miscellanea', aphorisms and notes on Roman and other ancient history; f.6v: Latin poem on the silk-worm; ff.7r-11r: 'A true account of Mr Fullers discovery of the true mother of the pretend...
Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.
c.1720-1830
Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...
Poetical miscellany, entitled 'Poems, & verses on several occasions, MDCCXXVI'.
1726
Contains 60 miscellaneous mainly eighteenth-century English poems.