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Christian Hoffman, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Newport, Kentucky, compiled this 201-page book of poetry, largely in the German language, with eight poems in English. Hoffman's selections include poems or poem fragments by Henry Kirke White, Lord Byron, Agnes Franz, Friedrich Rückert, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Friedrich von Sallet, August Henrich Hoffmann, and others. Christian Hoffmann apparently included several original spiritual poems, such as "Des Kinder schwingender Geist" (pages 18-24) and "Die Absched des Prindes Gottes" (pages 169-170). Several blackletter script titles, decorative initials, and illustrations are present. The three illustrations include an urn with flowers (page 69), an angel with a harp (page 168), and a vignette of three maidens holding a banner with the words "O laube", "Liebe und" and "Hoffman" (page 76).
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Edith A. Moore Frost's commonplace book includes material dating from 1860 to 1893, with signatures, poetry, and comments predominantly written by her classmates and teachers from Ashland High School in Ashland, Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts State Normal School in Framingham, Massachusetts. Some entries include notations written in another hand, primarily indicating if someone was a teacher. Acquaintances in Kansas contributed additional entries in the 1880s.
Many persons signing the album added elements to their entries, such as poems, proverbs, comments, and drawings. Twenty-seven photographs of women were pasted into the volume alongside their signatures, with an additional five photographs enclosed in a letter written by Mrs. E. A. Husey to Mrs. F. W. Frost in 1893 (concerning classmates from the State Normal School). The volume includes various other materials tipped or pasted in, such as a fabric swatch with an attached hair clipping, embellished paper, and a pressed leaf.
Edith A. Moore Frost first inscribed the volume on December 25, 1860, indicating this "Forget Me Not Album," which features engraved illustrations of women, may have been given to her as a Christmas gift. She later wrote, beneath a photograph of herself, "Edith A. Frost. Class of 1868. Mass. State Normal School. Framingham Mass. Pictures of graduating Class 1868."
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The Elmer Neill sketchbook, dating between 1893 and 1896, contains pencil, ink, and crayon/pastel drawings likely produced as educational exercises. Also in the volume are manuscript maps of North America, South America, and Africa, as well as calligraphic drawings of birds. The drawings in this volume include landscapes, geometric shapes, animals, flowers, a woman outside a log house, a ship, and others. The name Elmer Neill appears once.
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The Clements Library's collection of individual friendship and autograph albums (the ones that are not part of larger bodies of family papers) dates primarily from the second half of the 19th century. The creators of these albums sought out friends, family, schoolmates, public persons, and others to write signatures, sentiments, poetry, extracts from books and serials, personal sentiments, and more. Contributions often emphasize ties of friendship, exhortations to seek love, happiness, or Christian religious salvation. Most of the volumes in this collection were compiled in the Northeast United States and areas in the Midwest, with urban and rural areas represented. The greater number of the albums were kept by young women and the bulk of the signers were also female. At least one volume was kept by an African American man, Lewis G. Mosebay. Contributors occasionally illustrated pages with calligraphic designs, trompe l'oeil visiting cards, animals, flowers, and themes that had particular significance to their relationship with the keeper of the album. The volumes in this collection are largely decorative blank books adorned with tooled covers, sometimes containing interspersed engravings of religious, literary, historical, and landscape themes. Some include pasted-in photographs, die-cuts, or stickers.
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The Irene Levis Roberts album, which has the title "Flowers of Loveliness" imprinted on the cover, includes 9 entries (17 total pages): 8 poems and 1 note. The poetry, mostly written by A. H. Roberts, concerns topics such as nature and the seasons, religion, travel, and death (see below for a full list of titles). The note by Thomas C. Murphy, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Smyrna, Delaware, pertains to the baptism of Irene L. Roberts on performed on March 11, 1855. Colorful crayon scribbles appear over one of the poems and on several of the later pages.
The book contains a series of colored prints show women dressed and decorated as flowers, each representative of a virtue.
- "To My Niece," by W. L. Green, November 25, 1852 (1 page)
- "The Flight of Time," by Edmund Brewster Green, September 7, 1844 (2 pages)
- "To My Friends," by A. H. Roberts, undated (2 pages)
- "On the Death of Mrs. S. M. of This Place," by A. H. Roberts, undated (2 pages)
- "Lines Suggested on Witnessing the Burial of Mr. D. Carr, Respectfully Addressed to His Widow," by A. H. Roberts, undated (2 pages)
- "The Home of the Christian," by A. H. Roberts, undated (2 pages)
- "The Hindoo Mother," by A. H. Roberts, undated (3 pages)
- "Reflections on My Past Visits to Cantwells Bridge, Addressed to E. D. Clark," by A. H. Roberts, copied by I. Roberts, May 1863 (2 pages)
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This combination sketchbook and scrapbook belonged to J. F. Beyer, an immigrant from Germany who moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, sometime in the 19th century. The volume contains pencil sketches, pasted-in newspaper and other types of clippings, autographs and friendship-album like entries in German (Kurrentschrift), French, and English.
The newspaper clippings appear to be mostly from Worcester, Massachusetts, and contain a variety of topics ranging from social events to poetry, local news, and more. A clipping dated December 18, 1882, celebrates the Turn Verein Society's new hall, and another undated clipping describes a hot air balloon basket being woven by J. F. Byer for an upcoming marriage.
Much of the artwork within the volume is signed, and many signatures also feature the word "Basel." Of the two Stevengraph woven pieces, one is of the Pope (dated 1846) and one features a woman with the name "Halle.Hoffmann.Basel" at the bottom. Many of the sketches are of houses with trees or flowers nearby, and some are more pastoral in nature.
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Laura L. Earl's friendship album includes material dating from 1860 to 1932, documenting her relationships across several geographic regions. Entries include poems, signatures, quotations, brief comments, and drawings of calling cards with signatures added. Additional visual materials include a negative image of a leaf made by splattering ink, a watercolor painting of flowers, and a calligraphic rendering of Laura Earl's name. Places linked to writers include states such as Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Missouri, New York, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma. Later entries refer to Laura by her married name, Laura E. Nethers.
Laura L. Earl pasted or tipped in various materials to the volume, including printed poems, calling cards, newspaper clippings, leaves, a scrap of fabric, an advertising blotter, a printed set of four images with Biblical passages, a notice for Mrs. D. E. Denman's funeral services in 1928, and Laura (Earl) Nethers' newspaper obituary from 1932. One calling card is from Laura L. Earl, and includes a photograph of her affixed to it. One clipped newspaper or magazine image shows two white men seated at a table with an African American man serving beverages.
"Pensez A Moi" is printed on the front cover. "Laura L. Earl" is stamped on the front flyleaf, as well as a pencil inscription, "1860. A Christmas Gift from my father, Covington, Ky."
- Modesty and Vanity
- Pensez A Moi
- The Departure
- Fatal Signal
- The Balsille. Eng'd for this Work
- Little Rogues in Trouble
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The Martha Leach Packard commonplace book (200 pages) contains inscriptions, correspondence, autographs, and ephemera that Packard collected from the 1850s to 1890s. Packard used about half of the pages; additional items are laid into the volume.
Most inscriptions and autographs are written directly into the volume, and many are dated at Poughkeepsie, New York. Most entries are dated from the 1850s-1890s, though some letters pasted into the book are dated as early as 1837. Prominent individuals such as politicians, artists, and writers contributed autographs (see list below), and historian Benson J. Lossing provided a personal inscription (p. 39). Packard's other contributors included academics and personal acquaintances, 5 of whom mentioned participating in the Civil War (pp. 77, 145).
Laid-in letters include items by famous persons and personal correspondence to Martha Leach Packard and E. W. Packard. The volume also includes visiting cards, a menu from a dinner at the Stevens House (p. 157), a lock of hair (p. 178), and a swatch of fabric (p. 198). The album was originally published with printed illustrations, mainly portraits of women; some later pages contain cut-out colored illustrations of flowers.
- Benson J. Lossing (inscription, p. 39; letter, p. 200)
- John Jay Hyde (inscription, p. 41; calling card, front endpaper)
- Henry P. Tappan (autograph, p. 45)
- Thomas Nast (autograph on card, p. 61)
- Samuel F. B. Morse (autograph, p. 97)
- William W. Belknap (autograph, p. 99)
- Henry Clay (autograph, p. 115)
- Lydia Huntley Sigourney (autograph, p. 115)
- DeWitt Clinton (autograph, p. 115)
- Francis Napier (letter, p. 193)
- P. T. Barnum (autograph, back endpaper)
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This album, belonging to Martha Louise "Mattie" Day, contains 26 self-portraits drawn by Mattie's "C. H. S." classmates, and includes profile drawings, names, and brief comments relating to a shared experience.
Mattie wrote, "You are requested to draw your picture, with appropriate remarks" on the front paste-down. The bulk of the drawings were done by her female classmates, and their writing often referenced memories involving Mattie. Some made self-deprecating remarks about their appearances. "A. H." wrote, "When this you see/don't forget the eve we played and I beat you all at dominoes." Adilia H. wrote, "The rose is red/the violet blue/sugar is sweet/and so are you Mattie. Ever your friend." Many include the note, "Class '78 C.H.S." One pink ribbon is laid into the volume.
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This volume was produced by Peter McGivney as a gift for his sister, Julia A. McGivney. Its entries are primarily copies of popular song lyrics and some poetry. Many focus on sentimental themes like remembrance, familial relationships, love, death, and religion. Some patriotic titles are also included. Titles like "Little Low Cabin" and "Half Way Doings" were likely minstrel songs, and include racist dialect. One is accompanied by a watercolor painting of an African American man in striped pants and a blue overcoat standing at a table with a Bible on it and a whitewash bucket on the floor.
Peter McGivney elaborately decorated and illustrated the volume with paintings, pencil drawings, pen-and-ink embellishments, printed scrapbook die-cuts, and calligraphic titles and borders. He drew numerous patriotic images, including American flags, shields, eagles, Union soldiers, and a portrait of George Washington. Flowers, leaves, birds, and landscapes feature prominently, along with depictions of women. He drew several illustrations of hands holding calling/visiting cards filled out with the names of friends and family members.
- "The Lady’s Yes," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- "Write Me a Letter [from] Home," by Will S. Hays
- "[Darling] Minnie Lee," by Dexter Smith
- "Ella Ree," by Charles E. Stewart
- "God Bless My Boy at Sea," by T. Brigham Bishop
- "Little Robin, Tell Kitty," by Frank Howard
- "Killarney," by E. Falconer
- "Sunny Days," by Edwin Ransford
- "Remember Me," by M. W. Balfe
- "We Parted by the River Side," by Will S. Hays
- "The Last Rose of Summer," by Thomas Moore
- "Lottie Lee," by C. T. Lockwood
- "Kiss the Little Ones," by W. F. Wellman, Jr.
- "Kiss Me Mother E'er I Die," by W. Dexter Smith, Jr.
- "To a Beloved Woman," translated from Sappho
- "Driven from Home," by Will S. Hays
- "Bessy O'er the Lea" [e.g. "Darling Bessie of the Lea"], by George Cooper
- "Our Own," by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
- "[When] The Corn is Waving, Annie Dear," by Charles Blamphin
- "A Woman's Question," by Adelaide Anne Proctor
- "Daisy O'Lynn," by M. H. McChesney
- "I'll Remember You Love in my Prayers," by Will S. Hayes
- "Don't be Angry With Me, Darling," by W. L. Gardner
- "The Good Bye at the Door," by J. E. Carpenter
- "Love On," by Eliza Cook
- "Sweet Genevieve," by George Cooper
- "When the [Autumn] Leaves are Falling," by J. E. Carpenter
- "Mother, Is the Old Home Lonely," by Arthur W. French
- "The Golden Side," by Mary Ann Kidder
- "Wait Till the Moonlight Falls on the Water," by Sam Bagnall
- "The Bells of Shadow" [e.g. "The Shandon Bells"], by Francis Mahony
- "Annie of the Vale," by G. P. Morris
- "My Pretty Jane," by Edward Fitzball
- "Silver Threads among the Gold," by Eben E. Rexford
- "When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home," by John Fletcher
- "Come Like a Beautiful Dream," by George Cooper
- "What Will I Do Without Thee," by Elmer Ruan Coates
- "Star of the Evening," by James M. Sayles
- "The Good Bye at the Door," by J. E. Carpenter
- "Memory Bells," by Henry Tucker
- "I Love the Merry Sunshine," by J. W. Lake
- "Every Home has Lost a Darling," by George Cooper
- "Wilt thou say Farewell Love," by Thomas Moore
- "A Sweet Face at the Window," by W. C. Baker
- "Faded Flowers," by I. H. Brown
- "The Blind Girl," by Joshua Swan
- "What Will I Do Without Thee," by Elmer Ruan Coates
- "Why Was I Looking Out," by Claribel
- "God Save the Flag," by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "Fair Maid of Perth"
- "Arabella Dolora"
- "A little Puss"
- "Rebecca at the Well"
- "E Pluribus Unum"
- "Excelsior"
- "The French Iron Clad Solferino"
- "Volcano of Turrialba (Mexico)."
- "View of Paknam on the Memam. Farther - India"
- "The Rose of Orleans"
- "The Queen of Flowers"
- "Marriot's Aerial Steam Carriage. 'Avitor.'"
- "Love in Winter"
- "Dressing for the Masquerade"
- "William Penn first Settler of Pennsylvania 1675"
- "The Tambourine Player"
- "Love in Summer"