[Commonplace book] : manuscript, [ca. 1782]-1820.

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Author / Creator:Brown, William, 1758-1825.
Description:1 v. ; 20 x 16 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Archives/Manuscripts
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy is the gift of William Allen Pusey.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3165103
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Other authors / contributors:University of Chicago. Library. Codex Ms. 383.
University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center.
Provenance:Gift; William Allen Pusey; 1916.
Pen trials with repeated attempts at the name Brown and other names, such as: William; George; Anna.
Former owner's inscription: Bell Brown. [Pr?]innel Hill.
Tipped in: Type-written description of the contents and their publication history.
Bound in: Two maps of Kentucky, one a photograph of a manuscript map ca. 1780, the second a photograph of the (print) map in Durrett's "John Filson" (ca. 1884).
Binding: Brown morocco over boards; gilt ruling on boards, spine, board edges, and turn-ins; gilt lettering on spine; maroon moiré doublures; red finding ribbon; original marbled paper wrapper bound-in; binder's signature: The Monastery Hill Bindery.
Notes:Text in English.
Summary:Subjects include: financial accounts; copies of poems; recipes for medicines; descriptions of nature; essays on various metals; miscellaneous anecdotes; and detailed accounts of two trips to Kentucky.
Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note:Description available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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Call Number: alc Ms383
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