Box 8

Scope and Contents From the Series: Seventy-one notebooks and 6 folders. Notebooks, both manufactured and homemade, containing primarily handwritten notes covering Kennedy's travels, literary studies, and research on various subjects. The notebooks are grouped according to Kennedy's series arrangement where it is evident. Titles are those given by Kennedy on the cover or first pages of each notebook, and are indicated in the inventory by bold type. Notes on loose pages and scraps are contained in six file folders. There is...

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Notebook D (New Series). 1904. 40 p. with numerous scraps pasted or pinned to most pages. 21 x 17 cm. Brown paper covers. Contains notes on various subjects.

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Notebook E (New Series). 1904. 40 p. with numerous scraps pasted or pinned to pages. Contains notes on many subjects and quotations from many writers.

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Botany and Birds. 1878. 47 p. with thirteen loose scraps and clippings inserted and numerous scraps and clippings pasted or pinned to pages. 20 x 13 cm. Contains notes and pencil sketches dealing with various trees, flowers, and birds.

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Birds No. II: Horticulture and Flower Culture. 1885. 20 x 13 cm. 74 p. and numerous loose scraps, clippings, articles, and a postcard inserted. Brown paper covers. Contains primarily notes and pencil sketches of various flowers.

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Notebook. 1897-1900. 37 p. with several loose scraps and a photo postcard inserted. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contains some notes on birds and fishing. Deals primarily with house and furniture construction. Contains many pencil sketches and diagrams.

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Journal. 1872-1879. 195 p. with 20 p. attached by hand stitching, and 11 loose scraps. 19 x 13 cm. Brown leather covers with flap closure. Contains dated entries documenting travels from Oxford, Ohio, to Europe. Also contains 16 p. of autobiographical notes covering Kennedy's life from 1850 to 1872 and 20 p. "Genealogy of the Kennedy FamilY.'

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Journal. Vol. II. 1879-1926. 102 p. and several loose clippings, scraps, and a postcard inserted. Several additional clippings, scraps, and one photograph pasted to pages. 20 x 12 cm. Black cloth covers. Contains dated entries, mostly from 1979-1980. Contains notes on several meetings with Walt Whitman.

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Notebook. 1922. 198 p. (many blank). 21.5 x 18 cm. Red cloth covers stamped "The National Shawmut Bank of Boston." Primarily contains scraps and newspaper clippings on various subject and some correspondence pasted to pages.

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Notebook. 1926-1927. 98 p. (many blank). 16 x 10.5 cm. Blue paper covers. Contains miscellaneous notes, shopping lists, and addresses from Italy and England.