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Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour

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Description: The commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour containing journal entries, newspaper clippings, stories, and pressed flowers. Some items date as early as 1837 and the last entry is dated 1896. The spine is damaged and covers are loose.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1837-1896.
Call number: mssHM 63807
Creator: Seymour, Mary Alice(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Transferred from Rare Books, April 9, 1963.
Dimensions: 25 cm
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Commonplace book

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A commonplace book containing an acrostic written by Charles Lamb and a poem by Mary Matilda Betham; the volume also contains plant specimens, pencil and watercolor drawings, and a newspaper clipping. The spine is detached and the pages are loose.

mssHM 11586

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Translations from the French: poetical commonplace book

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Spine is broken, front cover is loose, handle carefully.

mssHM 34803

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Poetical manuscript commonplace book

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A verse miscellany, entitled "Poetical Manuscript Commonplace book" on the spine and "English Verses, Time of James and Charles the First" within the volume; it is written in a single neat italic hand, probably written in Oxford, England, approximately 1635, and associated with Christ Church College, Oxford University. The volume contains 108 poems, almost all of which are presented anonymously; there are mentions of race and skin color and more than 60 of the poems concern women, love, or marriage. Some of the poems are attributed to, among others, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Henry King, Thomas Randolph, and William Strode. The volume has 19th-century foliation and a list of contents in the front. The volume is bound in contemporary calf, sewn on four alum-tawed slips, covers with a single gilt rule border, head of spine has some damage, and the end leaves were replaced in approximately 1830; also, with a catalogue cutting pasted inside front cover and a morocco-backed slipcase.

mssHM 84418

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Caroline Corry commonplace book

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A Victorian era commonplace book containing poems, drawings, and locks of hair. The original poems include an acrostic of Caroline Corry's name and "Lines for an Album," "Friendship," and "Memory," as well as many unattributed pieces; the volume also includes several attributed pieces including poems by Joanna Baillie, Geoge Gordon, Lord Byron, and Reginald Heber. The volume is illustrated with a pen and ink drawing of a man, a pencil drawing of a dog's head, and several pasted-in engravings of various people and scenes. The volume also contains one page with 28 locks of hair stitched onto the page; each lock of hair is labeled with a name, and, in some cases, a date, of Corry's family and friends. The volume is bound in contemporary quarter red roan with faded blue-gray sides, with some damage to the spine and one loose page laid into the volume.

mssHM 84412

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Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript

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Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.

mssHM 82902

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Commonplace book

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This commonplace book is chiefly written in German but also contains Latin and French.

mssHM 69431

Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour

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