Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

This album contains autographs of the acquaintances of Adelaide Harris Davis of Cambridge, Massachusetts, collected between 1859 and 1864. Adelaide was a student at Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz's day school, and received autographs from Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, and Alexander Agassiz, who taught at the school, as well as friends, primarily female. The volume also has several black-and-white engravings. A circular letter is laid in and a tuition receipt is housed separately.

This album (101 pages) contains autographs of the acquaintances of Adelaide Harris Davis of Cambridge, Massachusetts, collected between 1859 and 1864. The front and back covers are decorated with imprinted artistic details and text reading "Album of Remembrance;" the album was printed by Leavitt & Allen of New York. Charles F. D. wrote a note on the first page celebrating many of Adelaide's virtues and recording his presentation of the album to her on February 22, 1859. Most of the acquaintances who signed the album were female, and some noted their locations or the date. Adelaide collected a majority of the signatures between 1859 and 1861 and one in 1864. Most signers were from Cambridge, Massachusetts, but contributors also came from New York, Vermont, and Iowa, as well as other towns in Massachusetts. Some included short mottos, such as Augusta M. Stevens, who inscribed a Shakespeare quotation (p. 55).

• [Miel] E. Berlancourt (poem in French) (p. 19)
• Alice C. Gates (p. 23)
• Francena Danforth ("Sweet be her dreams, the fair, the young," by Barry Cornwall) (p. 47)
• Lizzie Howe ("Watch and pray! The world deceiving…," by M. A. Dodd) (p. 57)
• "Belle" (p. 61)
• Sarah A. Manoun (p. 63)
• Sarah C. Fisher (p. 67)
• Carrie L. Fisher (p. 75)

• L. E. Agassiz (p. 79)
• E[lizabeth] C[abot Cary] Agassiz (p. 79)
• A[lexander] Agassiz (p. 83)
• Li. Agassiz (p. 93)

Several black-and-white engravings depict women at leisure and other scenes. An undated circular letter laid into the volume appeals to former students of the Agassiz day school to contribute to a gift prior to the school's having to close on June 26, 1862, because of the Civil War. A receipt, housed separately, records Eliphalet Davis's payment of $37.50 for one quarter's tuition at the Agassiz school (June 27, 1861).

The Henry and Ruth Dyer Collection consists of prose, epigrams, and other writings in four volumes. The bulk is attributed to Henry Dyer, including three volumes of lyrical writing, pencil illustrations, and political cartoons on the Civil War and slavery. Henry Dyer cut Union patriotic cartoons from letterheads or envelopes and pasted them into one volume, adding additional illustrations or frames in his own hand. Many of Dyer's wartime poems were printed in the Daily Alta, a California newspaper, as "War Lyrics," under his pseudonym Henry Proverb. Ruth Dyer's "friendship album" contains over 30 entries by Abington, Massachusetts, family and friends on virtue, wisdom, proclamations of love, and friendship.

The Henry and Ruth Dyer Collection consists of prose, epigrams, and other writings in four volumes. The bulk is attributed to Henry Dyer, including three volumes of lyrical writing, pencil illustrations, and political cartoons on the Civil War and slavery. Henry Dyer cut Union patriotic cartoons from letterheads or envelopes and pasted them into one volume, adding additional illustrations or frames in his own hand. Many of Dyer's wartime poems were printed in the Daily Alta , a California newspaper, as "War Lyrics," under his pseudonym Henry Proverb. Ruth Dyer's "friendship album" contains over 30 entries by Abington, Massachusetts, family and friends on virtue, wisdom, proclamations of love, and friendship.

One faded, partly colored photograph of San Francisco in 1860 is affixed to the back pastedown of Henry Dyer's "War Lyrics" volume.

The Kate G. Geary Autograph Album contains signatures, poems, proverbs, and other contributions of Geary's male and female acquaintances in Michigan from 1877 to 1884.

The Kate G. Geary Autograph Album contains signatures, poems, proverbs, and other contributions of Geary's male and female acquaintances in Michigan from 1877 to 1884. The bulk of the entries were written in Pinckney, Michigan, as well as nearby locations in Livingston, Washtenaw, Wayne, and Oakland counties. Main topics are love and friendship, the passage of time, and religion. Several printed stickers appear within the volume.

The Sarah R. Parry autograph book contains prose and poetic contributions from Parry's friends and cousins, who wrote about topics such as friendship, religion, and beauty.

The Sarah R. Parry autograph album contains 17 poems and 3 prose contributions by Parry's friends and cousins. Some of the original poems are dedicated to Parry, and an entry by "Juvenis" uses the first letters of her first name and surname in an acrostic poem. Most of the entries concern friendship, though others often pertain to religious topics such as faith and the afterlife. The entry by S. C. Demuth, which is a copied poem entitled "Beauty Transient," is accompanied by a pencil drawing of a young woman. Contributors often dated their entries in the Quaker style and wrote from places such as Lancaster County, Muskingum, and Zanesville, Ohio. Very brief pencil notes mention Martha T. Amos and Josephine P. Amos.

• Delaware Water Gap
• Catskill Mountains
• Weehawken
• Sawkill Falls
• Fort Putnam