Commonplace book : manuscript, ca.1832-1865.

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Commonplace book : manuscript, ca.1832-1865.

Poems with titles include: For Elizabeth L.E. Soule; January 1, 1832; To a flower; The fountain opened; Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation; I am not too old to love my mother; Life's sunny spot; On the death of the Rev. Elias Cornelius D.D.; Sabbath reflexions; The ocean; The gathering home; One by one; Lines written in expectation of speedy dissolutin by L.H.S.; Weep not for her; Christmas 1833; and others.

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