For centuries the commonplace book has been part of literary life. This is what someone’s personal literary storage looked like for many years and they should still give us pause to reflect on what we like to retain and remember from our reading especially what we might want and need to return to. This example is the work of Sir James Crichton-Browne, Scottish psychiatrist and neurologist.
Published in 1926, Crichton-Browne makes it clear what he intended his commonplace book to represent.
Here’s a small flavour of what he recorded.
The Solitary Reader 