Cornelia P(arkhurst) Clark was born May 30, 1803 in Newark, New Jersey and died September 1836. Cornelia died unmarried. She appears to have been a well-educated young woman. Her father was Jotham Clark (1768-1814), whose parents were Jotham and Phebe Clark. Her mother was Esther Parkhurst Clark (1771-1809) whose parents were Caleb and Lydia Lyon Parkhurst. Both families were from Newark, New Jersey. Cornelia had an older sister, Julia (1799-1846), who married Alexander Miller Taylor (1800-1829) in 1821. Julia and Alexander Taylor had a son named Alexander Clark Taylor (1825-1911). Alexander Clark Taylor married Clara Ashmead Dalzell (1836-1926) and they produced Alexander Miller Taylor (1865-1958). This Alexander Miller Taylor married Minnie Florence Stuart (1865-1960). They had four children. One child was Louis Richmond Taylor, who apparently was the father of the donor of this manuscript, Mrs. Muriel (Taylor) Pense, the wife of Alan W. Pense, former Lehigh University Provost and professor emeritus in metallurgy. The examples of literature transcribed in this common place book indicate that Cornelia and her fellow entrants were well-versed in literature as the examples include “The Last Rose of Summer” by Thomas Moore, “The Ruins” by Sellick Osborn, “Far at Sea” by Jane Cross Simpson among just a few sentimental and thoughtful entries. The common place book was a type of scrapbook popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries wherein collectors of sentiments entered proverbs, quotations, ideas, poetry, speeches and morality adages. What the significance of the time frame of 1821-1822 is hard to determine except that possibly the sentiments expressed of love, departure, and changing times could be connected to the time around the courtship and marriage of Julia Clark to Alexander Miller Taylor (1800-1829) on September 29, 1821. Mr. Taylor was from Savannah, Georgia and in the firm of William Taylor & Son.