[Commonplace book], [ca. 1830-1865].

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[Commonplace book], [ca. 1830-1865].

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Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of 97 verses, inscribed by friends and the compiler, primarily on friendship, love, and parting. Unattributed poems include The Martyr Bride, The Watchman's Song, and A Friend's Wish. The volume also contains an excerpt from Percy Shelley's Queen Mab; Fareweel, Edinburgh by Carolina Oliphant; a poem titled Supposed To Have Been Written By A Female Lunatic To A Lady by Henry Kirke White; and Phyllis Wheatley's On Imagination, labeled in the manuscript Lines By An African Negro. A note dated 1865 in Richmond, VA asks that its writer not to be forgotten "when the Atlantic rolls between us." Interspersed throughout the album are 2 music scores titled Mozart's Deh Prendi Un Dolce Amplessor and Spanish Chant, and 17 drawings and engravings of the sea, Scotland, and comic domestic and school scenes, as well as a trompe l'oeil drawing of an envelope addressed to "Miss Leithead, Bondgate St. Alnwick" and an ink drawing titled African Cupid.

1 v. (124 p.) ; 26 x 21 cm.

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