‘An album of confessions to record opinions, thoughts, feelings, ideas, peculiarities, impressions, and characteristics of friends.’ Contents: filled-in, one-word answers to various questions by the owner, Nell C. McElliott, and her friends (19th century). A diary with personal meditations, reflections, art, and general writing in Dutch, English, and French in the 1870s–1900s Contents: various meditations; poetry; ‘Werken, Denken, Leeren’; ‘Souvenir’; a drawing of a castle; pasted flowers; a watercolour of a harbour; drawings of lords and ladies; a folded letter in French to ‘Kitty’; pencil ship drawings; a newspaper fragment on ‘Au Venezuela: La Question des Cables’; a drawing of a woman and a toddler; a diary entry (1906); an anonymous love confession; 'smiles’; ‘Far-away thoughts from home” (1906). A nearly empty art album containing drawings of 'Sunset on the Devonshire Coast’ by GMC, ‘at Newcastle’ (1904), ‘Monaco, Le Port,’ and ‘Kittens’ by M. Morris (1904). A book of realistic pictures of objects with a catalogue of artists and statements from the press (unknown date, presumably late 19th or early 20th century). An ‘album’ scrapbook containing various drawings and pieces of handmade art (dated 1850). Contents: a handwritten preface (Nov. 1850); a floral drawing; a reflective letter (1892[?]); a pencil drawing of a castle; a pencil drawing of Peel Castle, Isle of Man; a pencil drawing in the book of Conway Suspension Bridge; a watercolour of flowers (1852); a sketch of sea shells; stanzas of poetry (1852); a sketch of Snowdon from the Mantille Lakes by J.J. Watson; a sketch of an old town; stanzas entitled ‘Jo Janet’; a letter (1852); a painting of a flower basket; a sketch of ‘Lines Written’ by Lord Byron (1851); more meditative letters (1850s); a painting of a cat, attributed to Elizabeth Attkison; a sketch of ‘the Essex Village’; a poem ‘The Withered Rose’; meditative letters; a watercolour of flowers; a painting of an Asian woman.
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