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Box 1

 Container

Contains 46 Results:

The Mother, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 22
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Signed J Ann McNeill. Essay describing the virtues and fears of mothers.

Dates: undated

A rainy day, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 23
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Signed J. A. McN. Description of a rain storm as both a cause of fear and a chance to accomplish things indoors. The rest of the items in the journal are located in the final 20 pages. Information in brackets offers a limited identification of the otherwise unidentified items.

Dates: undated

Farewell, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 24
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A four verse, anonymous song or poem.

Dates: undated

Temper, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 21
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Signed J A McNeill. Essay about the virtues of women maintaining a pleasing temperament.

Dates: undated

The Indian Scholar, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 25
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An eight verse song or poem with the date Sunday Eve January the 4th 1846. [This does not appear to be an original composition. It may be a version of the song The Indian Student from the early 1840s.]

Dates: undated

Untitled poem, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 26
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Untitled poem which appears to have been signed, then erased.

Dates: undated

Poem, To J., undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 27
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Also appears to have once had a signature, now erased.

Dates: undated

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 30
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19th c. British folk song by Scottish-born Allan Cunningham, written before 1825.

Dates: undated

Untitled lyric, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 31
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Possibly a variation of Miss Lucy Long by George F. Bristow, 1842.

Dates: undated

My Normandy, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 33
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Song. English version of Frederic Berat's Ma Normandie (1836?).

Dates: undated

The Tear, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 28

The Tear, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 29

Two unidentified lines, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 34
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Two identified lines that say, I'll envy not the proudest monarch on his throne Could I but claim you as my life my love my own,

Dates: undated

Serenade, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 35

Nothing True But Heaven, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 39
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Song written by Thomas Moore, 1829.

Dates: undated

Unidentified poem (?), undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 40
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection is a journal from the 1830s-1840s that features handwritten essays, songs, and poetry from various people.The inside cover of the journal bears the date October 2, 1838, and also the year 1841. The first fifty-one pages of the journal consist of a collection of essays on various topics, apparently written as school assignments. Of the twenty-three essays, nine are initialed “J A McN” or some variation, eight bear the initials “J H T,” and six are labeled “M L B.”...
Dates: undated

Untitled song, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 37
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Untitled song with the head note, To be sung on occasion of his preaching for the missionary society in 1820. Dated 8th January, 1842. [Identified as From Greenland's Icy Mountains by Reginald Heber 1819.]

Dates: undated

Untitled song, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 38
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Possibly a version of Frozen Heart 93.

Dates: undated