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DocRefNoCR4436/1
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TitleCommonplace book of Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller
Datecirca 1797-mid 19th century
DescriptionContains extracts of religious works, such as the Bible and Walker's 'Sermons', notes on history and royal genealogy, poems, etc. Several items marked by the initials 'JWP'. Some printed items stuck in, e.g. 'Lord Byron's poems on his own domestic circumstances' and a poem 'on the death of an infant'. 245 numbered pages followed by approximately 100 unnumbered (pages 122-138 torn out), with index at beginning. On inside front cover is a bookplate with the coat of arms of Jonathan Wathen Phipps [later Waller]. Paper water-marked 1797: dated items range up to 1822.
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