Daniel Russell’s notebook is covered in a more typical binding, probably calf. The book is small and functional with only a bit of blind tooling. The label attached to the spine was placed on much later. Courtesy of the American … Continue reading
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Richard Russell’s book contained rules on each page to delineate space at the head, foot, and outer margin. The side margin was a particularly important space for sermon notes, as this is where the auditor could put in notations of … Continue reading
It is not unusual to find pages torn out of notebooks, especially parts of blank paper that might be used for other purposes. The varied conditions of surviving notebooks always provoke speculation about use over time. Courtesy of the American … Continue reading
Richard Russell essentially made one notebook work as two. He would record the morning sermon in one direction in his notebook, being careful to write only halfway down each page. For the afternoon sermon, he simply flipped his book and … Continue reading
Both the size and the binding of Richard Russell’s sermon notebook are unusual for 17th-century New England. The book is significantly larger than most extant sermon notebook, and it is bound in limp vellum. You can still see the remnant … Continue reading
These two sermon notebooks of Richard Russell (father) and Daniel Russell (son) are both at the American Antiquarian Society and provide an excellent opportunity for side by side comparison. Looking at the range of physical formats and recording styles used … Continue reading