Lydia Brown penmanship and commonplace book, [early 19th Century]
1 volume
Lydia Brown compiled this notebook of copied poems, principally religious and moral in nature, sometime in the early nineteenth century. She often drew calligraphic titles and other embellishments, including borders, flowers, and leaves. Several times throughout the volume, Lydia Brown includes included "A E 12" after her name, possibly an abbreviation for the Latin phrase "aetatis," indicating she may have been 12 at the time of writing and the volume could have served as an educational exercise for learning penmanship.
Lydia Brown compiled this notebook of copied poems, principally religious and moral in nature, sometime in the early nineteenth century. She often drew calligraphic titles and other embellishments, including borders, flowers, and leaves. Several times throughout the volume, Lydia Brown included "A E 12" after her name, possibly an abbreviation for the Latin phrase "aetatis," indicating she may have been 12 at the time of writing and the volume could have served as an educational exercise for learning penmanship. A test sheet at the end of the volume includes several practice penmanship elements, and pencil lines throughout indicate how Lydia Brown was keeping her writing straight.
Poem titles in this volume include:
- To Hope
- A Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer
- Charity
- Safety in Christ
- Say Why!
- Childhood
- Life
- Content
- Faith
- Hope
- Charity
- Humility
- Friendship
- Fortitude
- Modesty
- Patience
- Inscription on a Clock
- Friendship
- Sunset and Sunrise
- Reputation
- A Request
- Hope
- The Rose
- Friendship
- Time
- Repentance
- Prayer
- Religion
- The Happy Cottage
- A Thought
- Evening Cloud
- Extract
- An Epitaph
- Time
- Modesty
- Extract
- Repentance
- Life
- Prayer
- The Tear
- Sympathy