Commonplace books.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: The Greenwood encyclopedia of American poets and poetry, 2006: Commonplace book; a notebook in which the keeper enters textual memorabilia, usually by hand. The items recorded in the books are called "commonplaces"; commonplaces include maxims, excerpts from literature or philosophy, bits of scientific data, excerpts from friends' letters or other writing, and records of oral conversations; often includes commentary by its keeper; served many functions: scrapbooks, containers for memories; pedagogical tools in early modern schools; sites of self-improvement
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Thomas Weld commonplace book, 1723.
Collection
Identifier: MS0997
Abstract
Thomas Weld was born in November, 1702, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1723. Weld became the minister in Upton, Massachusetts, in 1735 and was later dismissed in 1743. In 1745 he became one of two ministers in Middleboro, Massachusetts, and was later dismissed in 1743. During the French and Indian War Weld joined the army as a chaplain; he died during the war. This collection contain a commonplace book that was created during Thomas Weld's time at Harvard...
Dates:
1723