| Description | Commonplace book. Pencil portrait of a woman labelled "Maria Kennawny 1828" on first page; the following page has a floral motif in pencil initialled "E R R", this is presumably the owner. Opens with a message to the reader. Contains poetry and some prose in various hands, some passages initialled, interspersed throughout with engravings, pencil drawings and postcards of the Scottish countryside. Paper watermarked 1823 but one of the engravings is of the Great Exhibition in 1851. |