journal4life reblogged
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commonplacing on a train with a new friend
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favorite pages from my third field notes: a lot of trees, hands and quotes from philosophy of emotion papers
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“Containing Everything:” A Notebook from 1916
Written by Elvira Christine Dyssegard Stuve (“Mrs. Will C Stuve”), this collection of looseleaf pages really does “[contain] everything”! Elvira started this commonplace book in 1916, when she was 22.
She used this as a place to copy down:
- poems
- quotes
- jokes
- flowers and their meanings
- birthstones and their meanings
- Chinese proverbs
- Egyptian proverbs
- “Mrs. Taft’s List of Greatest Women”
- Etymology of the name “Elvira”
- A poem she wrote to a friend (acquaintance? family member?) who had died of scarlet fever
- Historical fun facts about polka, dueling, and more
Titles of a few of the articles Elvira copied into her commonplace book after reading them elsewhere, possibly in a local Omaha newspaper:
- “Marry Homely men, says expert divorcee”
- “Spooning is O.K. says physician”
- “Artistic Flirting O.K. says a Psychologist”
- A list (perhaps a quiz?) in which Elvira ranks offences
Elvira’s pages were transferred into this “Collegian” loose-leaf notebook sometime in the 1930s.
-Samantha, Graduate Student Employee at UW-Madison Special Collections.
9/24/19