Small hardback leather-bound scrapbook with ornate blind and gold tooling to front and back covers, thick pages in a variety of pastel shades, gilt edges to pages and the word ‘Album’ embossed in gold on the spine. Signed ‘Maria Ann Emra October 8th 1850’ on the flyleaf. The contents include handwritten copies of poems of devotional nature, including ‘The Daisy’ by Dr Good; ‘On the Sign of the Cross in Baptism’ by Henry Alford; extract from Now and Then by Samuel Warren; ‘Written in a Very Beautiful Spring’ by S.B.; extract from ‘Beauty: or the Art of Charming’ by Robert Dodsley; ‘The Lilies of the Field’ by Reginald Heber; ‘Resignation’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; ‘Associations with Places by the Reverend Edward Caswall; and a short extract from ‘Lady Clara Vere de Vere’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; also pencil and watercolour drawings and coloured images cut out from magazines. Some of the contributions are signed or initialled and include Maria’s stepmother and her aunt S. G. [Sarah Grey] Emra. Only a small portion of the book has been used.
Emra, Maria Ann (1835-1904)