Pages from commonplace books of Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Patrick Branwell (brother of the Bronte sisters), Caroline Herschel (German-British astronomer and scientist), Nancy Cunnard (political activist and writer), and Robert Southey in the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. “The Ransom Center’s extensive collections of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, artworks, and other materials document our cultural history and the creative process.”
From the Internet Archive a treasure trove of 295 digitally archived commonplace books (and more). You can view a copy of John Locke’s A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books (1706).
The Harvard Library Harvard Digital Collection contains 76 commonplace books.
Commonplace books of Francis Dane and John Dane in Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online.
Calisphere is a digital collection providing “free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Over one million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more have been digitized and contributed by all ten campuses of the University of California and other important libraries, archives, and museums throughout the state.” There are 44 items in its commonplace book collection.
