Commonplace books
Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
Scope Note: Use for personal notebooks in which the owner has copied passages of interest or written his or her own compositions; use also for printed versions of such works.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MS-020
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book of an unknown person. Inlaid between front flyleaf and first page is an envelope inscribed "Julia Fr(?)eely, 943 Paradrome St., Mt. Adams scrapbook." This may be the creator's or the donor's identification. The inscription is written in a hand that is distinct from that found in the commonplace book, which contains handwritten copied poetry and pasted-in clippings, most of which relate to Catholicism and the Catholic Church. Included are clippings regarding the deaths of Fr....
Dates:
1885-1886, undated