2 manuscript volumes. Oblong 8vo, one being 106 x 175 mm with 288pp, and the other 94 x 148 mm with 212pp. Many pages of both the larger and smaller commonplace book have Ellen Warter's embossed monogram (with a bee). The larger begins with 'The Home of the Brontes'.

Well over 300 of the pages of the commonplace books, including the whole of the larger one, are devoted to the Brontes, beginning with extended transcripts from J. H. Turner's Haworth past and present (1879) and related newspaper articles on the destruction of Haworth church. There follow contemporary and later reviews and criticisms of the poems and novels, all probably from published sources - Mrs. Gaskell, Thackeray and Wemyss Reid - the most recent taken from Skelton's Essays on Shirley (1883). many are unattributed and many remain to be identified. The remaining transcripts are from the works themselves, prose and verse, by all three sisters and principally Charlotte.