BIB_ID
436114
Accession number
MA 23623
Creator
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946.
Display Date
London, England, ca. 1930-1943.
Credit line
Purchaed on the Gordon Ray Fund, 2019.
Description
1 item (296 pages), bound ; 23 cm
Notes
Title from first page. Smith also lists his name and address (11 St. Leonard's Terrace / Chelsea SW III") on the first page. Estimated years of writing based on address and dates in the book.
Mostly in manuscript, but Smith has pasted clippings from printed materials in some entries.
Foliated in pencil.
Mostly in manuscript, but Smith has pasted clippings from printed materials in some entries.
Foliated in pencil.
Provenance
Purchased from Sothebys London, 3 December 2019, Lot #139. Bookplates of John J. Smith Jr. and Trevor Roper.
Summary
A commonplace book containing quotations from numerous sources, including Byron, Carlyle, Emerson, Goethe, James, Milton, Spenser, Thackeray, and others. With a list of his publications from 1895-1943 on the verso of the first page, and several personal chronologies on the final pages of the book.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (25.6 cm)
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