Ethel Grey, 1870s
Scope and Contents
A commonplace book, bound in green cloth and compiled by one Ethel Grey in the early 1870s. Grey appears to be a young English woman visiting or studying in Hanover, Germany. The book is filled with handwritten poems, most in English but occasionally in German: some are copied or written by Grey herself, some were apparently added in the hands of her friends. Occasionally a separate hand has annotated Grey’s poems in pencil with critique and advice for improvement. The book itself has a bookseller’s ticket from Charles Hopkins in Oxford, and a note in pencil on the front flyleaf reads “From Baring-Gould Family” though any connection to author Sabine Baring-Gould has now been lost. A curatorial file compiled by Scheetz is also included.
Dates
- 1870s
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu