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What follows is a list of Early National and Antebellum commonplace books and friendship albums from the North American manuscript holdings in the Department of Special Collections, University Libraries of Notre Dame. The manuscripts included here date wholly or primarily from the years 1788 to 1860.
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COMMONPLACE BOOK. c1790-1800. 1 vol., 18 cm., 22 leaves, with 41 pages of manuscript entries in a single hand. This anonymous, undated commonplace book includes copies of 21 titled (though unattributed) songs and, less notably, poems. Original dates of composition appear to range from the 17th century to the 1780s. The latest, perhaps, is "Ode on Opening the Bridge at Boston," whose lyrics were written for the opening of the Charles River bridge at Bunker Hill in 1786. The greater number of the songs are secular. Lyrics (and poems) included in the book are: "On a Lady's Striking a Fly with her Fan;" "Indian Chief;" "Pompey's Ghost;" On John _____'s Picture by Smibert;" "Elegy on Two Ram Cats;" "Ode on Opening the Bridge at Boston;" "Rosamond's Soliloquy;" "Bunker Hill;" "Brittannia's Wolf;" "The Drunken Soldier;" "The Hypocrite's Hope;" "The Atheist;" "The Dying Christian's Soliloquy;" "The Maid of the Mill;" "The Wonderful Old Man;" "The Hermit;" "The Vicar and Moses;" "Song;" (to the tune of "Black Sloven"); "Friendship;" "Grief a Pastoral Elegy;" "Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day." MSN/EA 8604-1.
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EMILIE GOUDAIN COMMONPLACE BOOK. 1823-1832. 1 vol., 20 cm., 65 leaves, with 39 pages of manuscript entries in several hands. Folio 2r of this blank-leaved volume is inscribed "Common Place Book," and identifies the owner as Emilie Goudain of New York. The entries, which consist mostly of verse (some in French), are in at least two different hands, one of which is Goudain's. MSN/EA 8600-1-B.
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JANE G. BARNITZ FRIENDSHIP ALBUM. 1828-1836. 1 vol., 27 cm., 92 leaves, with 80 pages of manuscript entries in various hands; 7 drawings in ink and wash, watercolor, or charcoal; and 4 engravings tipped in. Jane Barnitz (c1813-1840) was the daughter of
Charles Augustus Barnitz, a wealthy York, Pennsylvania lawyer and U.S. representative (1833-35). During the years when the album was being compiled Jane lived at Springdale, the Barnitz family home in York. For the most part, the album contains poetry and prose selected and copied for Jane by numerous acquaintances; some of the hands are highly ornamental. A smaller number of entries appear to be original compositions. MSN/EA 8601-1-B.
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FRIENDSHIP ALBUM. 1830-1838. 1 vol. partly printed, entitled The Literary Remembrancer (published by Oliver D. Cooke & Co., Hartford, 1827); 20 cm., 86 leaves, with 57 pages of manuscript in various hands and 4 watercolor drawings. The owner of this friendship album can be identified only by the given name Caroline, likely a resident of Attleborough, Bristol County, Massachusetts. The album contains 52 individual sentiments by a great many contributors; many of these entries are signed and dated (all but one to 1830-1834), and most are in poetic form. MSN/EA 8605-1-B.
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FRIENDSHIP ALBUM. 1837-1839. 1 vol. partly printed, entitled Album (printed by J. C. Riker, New York, with 5 steel engravings of Asher B. Durand); 24 cm., 60 leaves, with 30 pages of manuscript entries in several hands, and 3 drawings in ink and wash or watercolor. The owner of this friendship album is not known; sentiments are addressed to both "Penelope" and "Maria." All the manuscript sentiments are in the form of poetry; several are dated, ranging from 1837 to 1839. MSN/EA 8602-1-B.
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MARY ANN MARVELL FRIENDSHIP ALBUM. 1846-1857. 1 vol., 20 cm., 56 leaves, with 50 pages of entries in various hands. Mary Ann Marvell (c1830-1900) was a resident of North Dighton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. The album contains around 45 sentiments, in poetry and prose, written to Mary Marvell by almost as many different individuals. Entries are typically signed and dated; the authors appear to be local, from towns in Bristol County. MSN/EA 8603-1-B.
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