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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

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

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

Susan's Friendship album

 Collection — Box BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16535
Content Description

This collection contains one album with 47 pages of inscriptions, prose, and autographs with named locations including Norwich, Canterbury, Bell Plane Minnesota, Providence R.I., Colchester, Attleboro, East Greenwich, Mystic River, Boston, and Hartford.

Dates: 1855-1860

Estelle F. Tayloe commonplace books

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X031589426]
Identifier: MSS 16335
Scope and Contents Estelle F. Tayloe three commonplace books, 1850-1854, 0.09 cubic feet. The first section appears to be lessons, perhaps in writing. Each essay begins with topic themes in which the author articulates her thoughts, usually a page or two. In one essay title "Intimate Friends," she talks of her admiration for a girl to whom she had written a letter in a previous lesson. The next essay is about Christmas holiday in 1850, her homesickness. Brief notations by 'M.O.' (Mary Okills)...
Dates: 1842-1859

Margaret M. Tillotson album

 Collection — Box BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16706
Content Description This collection contains the commonplace book of Margaret Tillotson. A full commonplace book, with many of the items religious in nature, such as psalms of personal importance, the ten commandments, Jewish translations for the months of the year, poems yearning to travel to Rome or other pilgrimage sites, besides the usual miscellaneous collection of poetry. Tillotson's father was John C. Tillotson (1791-1867) who was the son of Dr. Thomas Tillotson (1750-1832), Congressman and Secretary of...
Dates: 1837 - 1841

Margaret Tracy commonplace book

 Collection — Box BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16713

Susan W. Tudor album

 Collection — Box BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16698
Content Description

Susan W. Tudor album with numerous handwritten sentiments and poetry inscribed to her by men and women in southern Pennsylvania, mostly from East Berlin and Locust Grove. Of interest are a pasted in die-cut card illustrated by hand, a floral sketch, and two poems about escaping "Indian Maidens" which is accompanied by a nice watercolor rendering of the eponymous character in a canoe in front of a waterfall scene.

Dates: 1843 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1843

Mary Webster album

 Collection — Box BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16723
Content Description This collection consists of the album from Mary Webster, a young woman from Madison, Ohio. Entries include a variety of poems and notes from friends of Mary. Some of the poetry may be original works. Inside are five finished engravings: these tend to have small black and white biblical scenes with large, colored floral borders that extend up the page. The flowers are identified, and meanings attributed to the flower are identified below the illustrations.The locations most often...
Dates: 1843 - 1846

Laura A. Wright friendship album

 File — Box BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16533
Content Description

This collection contains one volume belonging to Lauren A. Wright of Hebron, Connecticut, with 67 pages of inscriptions, prose, and drawings. An intricate calligraphy inscription reads "Calvin H. Phelps to Miss Laura A. Wright, Hebron." Dates for inscriptions range from 1830 to 1860, with the majority written in the 1830's and 1840's. Locations written in the book include Hebron, Hartford, Glastenbury, Belchertown, New Haven, Columbia, and West Dennis, Connecticut.

Dates: 1830-1860