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Commonplace book. Agriculture

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    Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour

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    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.

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    Brock Collection: The Equity Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson

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    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.

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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

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    Typescript letter signed. Regarding meeting with the Ericksons, planting corn, farming. (1 page and envelope)

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    Commonplace book

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    This commonplace book is chiefly written in German but also contains Latin and French.

    mssHM 69431