This volume (126 pages) includes poems on a variety of topics, including death and dying, friendship, and nature. Internal evidence indicates that the poems were written in New York in the early 19th century.
Several of the volume's poems are signed "B.P.," "Laura," or "C".
Evidence suggests that the author(s) of these poems lived in north-central New York during the early 19th century. The author refers to towns such as Bloomfield and New Lebanon and mentions people who lived in the area at the time. References to events occurring in 1810 and 1812 indicate, along with the author's penmanship and the volume's physical properties, that the volume was written in or shortly after the 1810s.
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Acquisition Note: Source: This collection was donated by Danville Junior College..
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This volume (126 pages) includes poems on a variety of topics, including death and dying, friendship, and nature. The poems are written in ink. The poems are written in ink. A significant number of the poems are elegiac and/or addressed to widows or the recently deceased. Catchwords often do not match the first word on the following page, and the volume ends abruptly with a catchword.
Binding: Common paper wrapper; leaves mostly disbound.
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