Box 49

Scope and Contents A collection of materials related to American poet and essayist Eugene Field. An original manuscript poem, “Ye Diuell: & Ye Miller Hys Wiffe”, in thirteen stanzas with marginal annotation in red. Bound in olive morocco with blind tooled decoration and title tooled in gilt. Bound in with the poem is an 1887 letter by Field addressed to George Ticknor ending with the exhortation “do not let the inclosed ballad get into print.” The collection also includes three other letters in Field’s...

Scope and Contents An autograph book belonging to Lizzie Gilmore of England, and containing more than 40 pages of autographs from various personalities of the British stage in the early 20th century, including music hall and Blackface performer G.H. Elliott (1882-1962), model and chorus girl Pansy Montague a.k.a. “La Milo” (b. 1885), and actress Carrie Moore (1882-1956). There are more than 70 individual inscriptions, some dated to the first two decades of the 20th century. The notes often mention the names of...

Scope and Contents A commonplace book or album c. 1830, once belonging to a young woman from Keene, New Hampshire named Harriet Keyes. The volume is bound in red morocco with gold stamping: floral borders on both front and back covers, the title “Album” on the spine, and the name “Harriet Keyes” added with a simple border in the center of the front cover. Brown marbled pastedowns and endpapers, and a frontispiece and printed title page reading “The Young Lady’s Remembrancer” dated 1827. The remainder of the...