Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Henry Tiffin commonplace book is a commonplace book that was kept by Tiffin from 1748 to 1776. The contents of the book are not chronological and include a collection of narratives, including a lengthy one on his voyage aboard the East Indiaman Eagle to India in 1774, poems, songs, treatise on navigation, and a number of watercolors of ships and places. Tiffin also includes comments about a voyage on board the HMS ...