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Beautiful Commonplace Books By Lewis Carroll, Nancy Cunard and More (Photos)

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A trove of beautiful commonplace books by Lewis Carroll, Nancy Cunard and more, selected by The Harry Ransom Center. Plus, Kelsey McKinney says writers have been aggregating, storing and sharing information through commonplace books for centuries—it’s only the technology that’s changed.

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Courtesy of Harry Ransom Center

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