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c1860 antique SAYINGS QUOTES TOASTS handwritten COMMONPLACE BOOK 44pp MANUSCRIPT
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The writing is small and compact and readable. Must be a gazillion sayings from the era. Probably owned by James McLauchlan since this came with another cypher book, listed separately, and signed.
Circa 1860 antique handwritten commonplace book measuring approximately 8 x 10 inches, with 44 pages of densely handwritten material.
The pages contain a large collection of sayings, quotations, toasts, maxims, short verses, humorous lines, observations and other collected passages. Much of the writing is arranged in multiple narrow columns, with entries written closely together across the pages.
Visible content includes:
- Sayings and quotations
- Toasts and toast-like expressions
- Numerous entries beginning with “May…”
- Humor and wordplay
- Love and courtship
- Marriage
- Friendship
- Women and relationships
- A page/section headed “Woman”
- Drinking and wine references
- Religion and religious references
- Death and mortality
- Money and poverty
- Virtue and morality
- America and patriotic references
- Soldiers and war
- England and Scotland
- Literary references
- Shakespeare references
- Authors, writers and other named individuals
- Short verses and rhyming passages
- Lists of names and subjects
The book contains a mixture of very short one-line entries and longer handwritten passages. Some pages are almost completely covered with writing, including material added in margins and between other entries.
Also included are the loose handwritten pages shown in the photographs. These contain additional handwritten sayings and passages.
The c1860 date is an estimated date, not a date written or otherwise confirmed in the material shown.
An interesting original manuscript collection with substantial handwritten content and a wide variety of period sayings and quotations.
Measures approximately 8 x 10 inches. with 44 pages and 2 additional double-sided detached.
Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.
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