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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Clara D. Nelson commonplace book

 Collection — Box BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16746
Content Description This collection contains one notebook filled with poems and some loose newspaper clippings of printed verse. The inside front cover is signed, "Mrs. Clara D. Nelson's book." The book is full of poems copied down by Clara. Some of the poems included are "The golden side," by Mary Ann Kidder, "The old, old home," [Reverend Henry Brown], "Peace," by J.G. Whittier, and "Watching and waiting," by Marianne Farningham. Additionally, there are thirteen poems on newspaper, eight of which...
Dates: c.1873