Box 9

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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Literary Notebook No.1. 1870. 69 p. 30 x 14 cm., and 18 p. 23 x 14 cm. inserted. Blue cardboard covers. Contains quotations from literature, notes on books and reading, and an annotated bibliographical section titled "A Course of Historical Reading."

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Literary Notebook No. 2. Undated. 100p. 30 x 14 cm. Brown cardboard covers. Contains miscellaneous notes and quotations from literature, notes on the life of George Washington, and lecture notes on discourse and Shakespeare.

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Literary Notebook No.3: Yale. 1873. 110 p. 21.5 x 17.5 cm. Black cardboard covers. Contains notes on literature, physics, Paris, France, Egypt, anatomy, and botany. Table of contents on p.3.

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Literary Notebook No. 4. 1877. 175 p. 19.5 x 16 cm. Red patterned cardboard covers. Contains miscellaneous notes and quotations from literature and "A List of Essays, Papers, and Poems by Me (up to Nov. 1878)."

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Literary Notebook V. (Commonplace Book): Names. Undated. 77 p. 21 x 17.5 cm. Poly-chrome patterned paper covers. Contains notes on literature, philosophy, and the sciences.

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Literary Notebook VI: Whitman, Winter and Snow. circa 1879. 80 p. with several scraps pasted to pages. Polychrome patterned paper covers. Contains lecture notes on homiletics and literature, and many quotations from literature. Index to 2nd half of notebook on p. 40.

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Literary Notebook VII: Uncle Remus. 1879. 86 p. with numerous notes and clippings pasted to pages. 20 x 16 cm. Polychrome patterned cardboard covers. Primarily contains quotations from literature.

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Literary Commonplace Notebook VIII. Undated. 76 p. with scraps and clippings pasted or pinned to most pages. 20.5 x 17.5 cm. Polychrome patterned paper covers. Contains notes on many subjects and quotations from literature.

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Style or Book of Words and Expressions IX. 1881. 85 p. with numerous scraps pasted or pinned to pages. 21.5 x 17.5 cm. Polychrome patterned cardboard covers. Contains words, phrases, and expressions that might be used in forming his style.