Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Anonymous, but it may have belonged to Margaret Waters or Margaret Smith, possibly from Georgetown, D.C.The first lines appear to be a manumission document. Also included are expenses, presumably for Margaret Smith and paid by a third party. The...
Monica Hemingway is in the seventh grade at South East Junior High School in Iowa City. Her poem was selected for the 2007 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its fifth year, Poetry in Public displays...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Webbe, Samuel, ca. 1770-1843; Webbe, Egerton, 1810-1840; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859;
Concerning his request for English words for a Welsh tune; desires a clue as to the where-abouts of a round by Egerton Webbe which Hunt honored in his eulogy of Egerton.
Concerning the amusements at Carr's party the previous evening; his love for her; his desire for news from Brighton; his thoughts on the desirableness of a woman who seeks knowledge without forgetting her "natural tenderness" and femininity.
Lee, S. Adams (Samuel Adams); Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859;
Concerning his long silence; he admits his opium addiction and admittance to Dr. Walter's Insane Asylum; his suffering and recovery; his mother's epilepsy. His earlier attempt to send a box from the United States to Hunt, only to be swindled by...