Item 2 - Hardcover notebook belonging to Emilie M. Watson

Hardcover notebook bearing the bookplate of Joseph Dollard on the inside cover, and embossed on the first page ‘Emilie M. Watson, Mount-mellick, 1866’. The Watsons were a Quaker family of Mountmellick, a centre of Irish Quakerism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book contains short essays in clear handwriting with titles presented in ornate calligraphy. Contents include a table listing the gravities of chemical elements; a note on triangles with illustrations; distances of planets from the sun; list of the signs of the zodiac; genealogical tables relating to the royal family; map of Ireland with related topographical and geographical notes; notes on mythology; the role of the resultant in mechanics; phrenology; barometers and thermometers; wind and rain; phosphorus; the empire of Alexander the Great; ancient Greece; classification of mankind; figures of speech; and on mammals, reptiles, insects, fish and leaves. Between the essays are ornate pages containing sayings and quotations. At the end of the book, in reverse, is a long poem of religious nature entitled The Three Rocks, attributed to ‘Nannie’ Webb. For ‘Nannie’ Webb, also see P27/3/1/1.