Commonplace-books
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Ms common-place book containing 37 contributions including poems, hymns, drawings and prose items, c. 1831-1835
A specifically prepared luxury volume as issued by Delarue, Cornish and Rock. Items include: 'Epitaph on professor Young of Glasgow'; 'The Traveller', a poem; 'List of Ministers names who are or have been in the Kirk of Scotland'; 'Translation of one of the Odes in the Media'; 'Hymns Constitutional de Portugal composta por Sua Altera Real Dom Pedro Quarto' with music; 'An essay upon an Apple', a poem; 'The Poets Bride', a poem, and 'Thine Album'.
Ms volume of poems, songs and epigrams, Helen Duncan, c. 1815-1820
Work in the ms volume includes an untitled piece, 'On Belinda', 'Epigram', 'The roof of straw', 'Verses by a young lady', and inserted loosley 'The little men'.
The volume is signed and dated 'Helen Duncan, October 12th 1818' on the front end paper.
Notebook on legal matters, including copy of transcript of the trial of Capt.John Porteous
Papers of Robert Kirk
These might be referred to loosely as commonplace books. Extracts of texts by others predominate alongside original notes by Kirk.