[Commonplace book], [ca. 1660].

1 v. (99 p.) ; 20 x 15 cm.

English

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Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a collection primarily of business accounts and letters, with a few poems interspersed throughout. The author records amounts of rents, land contracts, legal disputes, and witness depositions; two such depositions are regarding a land dispute. The collection also includes several recipes for making colored inks, as well as Giles Fletcher's poem Christ's Victorie In Heaven; a poem which begins, "With patience forlorne I passe the months and yeares in solitude"; and a longer poem investigating the self: "Whoe seekes me in me shall not find me as me as my self...I am at once male female never yet What ever I am I am not mine I weet..."

August 08, 2005

Samuel Houghton, Commonplace Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Samuel Houghton, Commonplace Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Commonplace books.