Manuscript Friendship Album of Augusta A. Mills, 1824-1831

small quarto, 59 pages of manuscript entries, plus blanks, bound in full red Morocco, "Augusta A. Mills" tooled in gilt on front board, some minor wear and rubbing to edges and extremities, bookseller's label of Peter Burtsell, Stationer, New York, on front pastedown, else very good.

The contributions in Augusta's album include poetry by both women and men, the contributions vary in length, some are quotations from other poems, some seem to be original contributions. Most are signed and some are dated.

They include, amongst others:

"By a Gentleman of 76 Years of age on a Rose in December, signed "J.H."

"The Natural and Moral advantages of a cultivated imagination", signed William F. Hamilton, New York, June 1st, 1824

"I would not live always" – signed W.S.S.

"Lines written on visiting the death bed of Miss E. B.M." unsigned.

"Lines composed on witnessing the burial of the same young lady" - unsigned, in the same hand as the above.

"Lord! To whom shall we go?" – signed C.W.N.

"Nature" signed W.H.M.

"Friendship" signed John Anketell

"To Augusta" signed Mary Stuart Robinson

"Home, Written at the Cottage Palace of Peter R. Livingston, Esq. At Rhinebeck, New York, shortly after the death of his truly pious wife" – signed S. Ely

"Farewell to my Lyre" – signed M.A. C.E. Philadelphia April 30th"

"To Miss M.C.E. – signed T. M. T. Philadelphia, April 28, 1831"

"Love of Country & of home" – signed John Anketell