Commonplace books -- Specimens

Literary references and newspaper clippings, many with religious topics, compiled in the mid-19th century, entered alphabetically onto blank pages of John Todd's Index rerum, or, Index of subjects, intended as a manual ... (Northampton : J. Butler, 1836). Signed "E. Baker, Troy"

Manuscript copies of literary passages, mainly verse, compiled during the 19th century by Sylvia Brackett

Bound notebook containing holography entires, chiefly in verse, by friends and family of Mary McLellan, from Bath, Maine

Notebooks kept by a resident of Waltham, Massachusetts (1863), and Limington, Maine (1867), recording poetry and other miscellanea, incluiding a Civil War chronology and French language lessons

Unidentified scrapbook containing dried flowers, newspaper clippings of poetry, and other common-places

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on moralistic and biblical topics, including textual interpretations of the Scriptures, commonplaces from numerous mid-nineteenth-century writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and a series of book reviews (see v. 3) of George Bush's Anastasis (1845)