Composition notebook for poetry and prose, 1833-1874.

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Composition notebook for poetry and prose, 1833-1874.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702179054

Bound ledger, originally used in the 1830s and early 1840s as a prison logbook to record the names, races, crimes, sentences, and sentence dates of criminals in an unidentified prison, and subsequently used as a short-story and poetry composition book by Florence Richmond. The cover is inscribed "Florence A. Richmond's Scrapbook, 1871." Logbook is arranged alphabetically; sections "A" through "D" are not present in the volume. Richmond's entries include original prose fiction (ca. 68 p.) and verse (ca. 10 p.), as well as manuscript copies of poems such as W. E. Aytoun's "Charles Edward at Versailles" and handwriting exercises. Accompanying documents, originally laid in the volume, include holograph and typed sheets of two poems, "The Gift" and "The Rose", which Richmond published as an adult.

0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Richmond, Florence Elsa, wife of Admiral Sir H W Richmond

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Florence A. Richmond, author of The Heart of the Rose (1905) and The Golden Lark: A Symphony of Reincarnation in Seven Tableaux (1911). Served as President of San Francisco's Papyrus Club before her death in California in 1919. From the description of Composition notebook for poetry and prose, 1833-1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702179054 Epithet: wife of Admiral Sir H W Richmond British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ar...