Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour, 1837-1896.

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Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour, 1837-1896.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510328

The commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour containing journal entries, newspaper clippings, stories, and pressed flowers. Some items date as early as 1837. The last entry is dated 1896.

1 volume, 150 pages, 25 cm.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Seymour, Mary Alice

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Mary Alice (Ives) Seymour, American novelist known under the pseudonym Octavia Hensel, the author of Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1870), Imperia (1892), The Rhinegold Trilogy, Holly Cross, the Cedar Grove series, articles for the Ladies' Home Journal, and popular songs such as "Captive to thy Kiss," and "Bo-Peep." She was born in 1837 or 1840 (in the commonplace book, she listed Oct. 21, 1861 as her twenty-first birthday), into the family of George Russell Ives, an Episcopalian m...