Original compositions and extracts, in prose and verse: Album, ca. 1817-1886.

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Original compositions and extracts, in prose and verse: Album, ca. 1817-1886.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144651980

Poems and short prose passages, many of them religious in nature, in various hands; original watercolors, pencil drawings, and other illustrations, including a small engraved portrait of Ada Byron as a young girl. Among the contributors are Hannah More, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, the Rev. T.T. Biddulph, Newman Hall, and members of the Fry family, including Caroline Fry.

1 volume (ca. 150 leaves, about half blank) : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 6827210

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Church of England clergyman. He was a prodigious author of religious works, and active in many evangelical societies. Biddulph was the recognized leader of the evangelical movement in Bristol. From the description of Thomas Tregenna Biddulph manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1821 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76699194 From the guide to the Thomas Tregenna Biddulph manuscript material : 2 item, ca. 1820's, (The New York Public Librar...

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