Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS c/23
Title
Commonplace book of Peter Paul Dobree
Date(s)
- c 1800 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 volume
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Previously owned by Joseph Edleston.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Alice Edleston, 1955.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Commonplace book with verses (including "Gray's Elegy parodied by W. Benwell") and epigrams (from Porson and Mansel). At the front of the book is A New Common-Place Book, in which the plan recommended and practised by John Locke, Esq. is enlarged and improved, by a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge, Second Edition. Cambridge, 1777.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- Ancient Greek
- English
- Latin