Scope and Contents The common-place books are written in the same hand, largely, and are described as: 1 x common-place book, small 4to, with 174pp numbered, dating from 1817-1837, though a later style of handwriting on last unnumbered 4 pp feature the date 1849. Original lightly diced Russia, lacking spine. Manuscript medical receipts, prescriptions. Entries feature named Scottish doctors or Scottish periodicals. An...

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Photograph of a young, unidentified girl sitting in a chair outside in a garden holding a stick in one hand and with a doll on the ground beside her in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Ersatz title is "Memorandum to Dr Gray to pick up as he finds opportunity these books". They are partial titles, numbering about a dozen, covering subjects as divers as optics, astronomy, and gardening.

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Photograph of a man posing with a hoe in a forest in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Photograph of men and women planting lettuce and other vegetables on individual plots of land in a field surrounded by trees in the early 20th century. The text under the slide notes that the land is so 'poorly drained that it was necessary to lower the paths between the plots.'