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Collection of commonplace books and manuscript verse
1744-1875
A collection of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century women’s commonplace books containing letters, poems, original drawings and cuttings. Also includes a collection of manuscript verse colle...
Literary archive of Mary Way
1744-1816
The collection of manuscript verse of Mary Way of Acton (1744–1816) comprising, transcribed, adapted, ‘improved’ and extended published poems as well as original poems; and a few prose pieces. ...
Pair of Watercolour and poetry albums of Miss Anne Elizabeth Treadgold and John Cox, Great Gonerby
1843-1854
A pair of complementary ‘his-and-her’s’ albums belonging to Miss Anne Elizabeth Treadgold and John Cox, both of Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire, during that courtship and after their marriage in 184...
Album of Agnes Kaye, Scotland
1845-1863
A well filled album which reveals details of its compiler’s personal life. We know that the album was given to Agnes Kaye by her father after her mother had died. She married a wealthy calico printe...
Friendship album of Margaret Rowntree. Danesdale, East Riding of Yorkshire
1853-1864
The poems are written in many hands, most signed and dated, the book having presumably circulated amongst Margaret’s social circle between 1853 and 1864. This is a very local community of poets, the...
Friendship Album unknown compiler
1870-1875
A friendship album with contributions from Aberdeen to Truro, Canada and Australia; including watercolours and topographical photographs. Two pages are set out with overlapping rectangles with names a...
Calligraphy exercise book of Martha Bowes
1814
Topics of writing excersises include: Contentment; Unitarianism; Ingratitude, Moderation, Pleasure, Penmanship and Conversation. Topics, and exact text, are repeated, and the choice of entries on Nort...
Trompe-l’oeil album of M. C. Gourcia, Liverpool
1820-1823
A highly accomplished series of finished and partly completed tromp-l’oeil drawings in pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour. Coloured drawings of flowers, shells and insects are strewn over facsimil...
Album of J. C. Washington. Congleton, Cheshire
1827-1835
An album of prints, cut-outs and poems.70 thick paper leaves 255 x 204 mm onto which are pasted cut-outs of numerous engravings, interleaved with 70 writing paper leaves watermarked 1825, on which ve...
Poetry and prose album of Elisa Morgan
1828- c.1862
An album containing original and transcribed verse and prose and a couple of sketches. The compiler may have been an aristocrat and was keen to display her knowledge of French. The album starts with a...
Album and copy letter book of Miss A. Young, Dundee
1830
The album and letter book of ‘Miss Young’, kept during her time placed with a local family under the auspices of a ‘worthy benefactress’ in Dundee in 1830, for her private education. The copie...
Album of Elizabeth Knox with verses and engravings
c.1830-1835
An example of a pocket-sized album of coloured papers containing a mixture of engravings, sketches, humorous and serious verse and witty epigrams, the latter providing good evidence of the compiler’...