Manuscripts
Commonplace book. Agriculture
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Commonplace book. English law: manuscript
Manuscripts
A "book of entries," or collection of precedents of pleading.
mssHM 948
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Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour
Manuscripts
The commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour containing journal entries, newspaper clippings, stories, and pressed flowers. Some items date as early as 1837. The last entry is dated 1896.
mssHM 63807
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Brock Collection: The Equity Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson
Manuscripts
One of the two surviving commonplace books that Jefferson kept in 1765. The first volume, known as the Legal Commonplace Book, was begun in 1765. Having made 113 entries, Jefferson he began a separate book for equity law, which in his day was argued in a separate court, the Court of Chancery. The book contains 2018 numbered entries derived from writings of Henry Home, Lord Kames, Matthew Bacon, William Peere Williams, Henry Ballow, and other standard authorities available to equity practitioners of the era.
mssBR 13
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Commonplace book
Manuscripts
A commonplace book containing an acrostic written by Charles Lamb and a poem by Mary Matilda Betham; the volume also contains plant specimens, pencil and watercolor drawings, and a newspaper clipping. The spine is detached and the pages are loose.
mssHM 11586
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Warren G. Harding, Washington, D.C., letter to French Crow, Marion
Manuscripts
Typescript letter signed. Regarding meeting with the Ericksons, planting corn, farming. (1 page and envelope)
mssShapiro
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Commonplace book
Manuscripts
This commonplace book is chiefly written in German but also contains Latin and French.
mssHM 69431