Box 1
Contains 46 Results:
The Mother
, undated
Signed J Ann McNeill. Essay describing the virtues and fears of mothers.
A rainy day
, undated
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.
Farewell
, undated
A four verse, anonymous song or poem.
Temper
, undated
Signed J A McNeill. Essay about the virtues of women maintaining a pleasing temperament.
The Indian Scholar
, undated
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.]
Untitled poem, undated
Untitled poem which appears to have been signed, then erased.
Poem, To J.
, undated
Also appears to have once had a signature, now erased.
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
, undated
19th c. British folk song by Scottish-born Allan Cunningham, written before 1825.
Untitled lyric, undated
Possibly a variation of Miss Lucy Long
by George F. Bristow, 1842.
Patent (?) Plough
, undated
Poem or song.
My Normandy
, undated
Song. English version of Frederic Berat's Ma Normandie
(1836?).
The Tear
, undated
Poem, signed Em (?) Etheridge.
The Tear
, undated
Poem, signed Morton Walker.
A little Gem
, undated
Poem.
Two unidentified lines, undated
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
,
Serenade
, undated
Poem or song.
Nothing True But Heaven
, undated
Song written by Thomas Moore, 1829.
Unidentified poem (?), undated
Untitled song, undated
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.]
Untitled song, undated
Possibly a version of Frozen Heart 93.