Copybook and miscellaneous manuscript collection, 1697-1840
Scope and Content Note
This collection of copybooks includes examples of penmanship, math exercises, notes on science, history, geography, and French. One anonymous volume appears to be a short novel. The collection also contains miscellaneous manuscript material, including indentures, bills, poems, recipes, and fragments. Other items of note are bills of lading for sugar, rum, lime juice, and English goods signed by Captain Azor Gale of the Brigantine Mary of Boston, dated 1697 and an unknown seaman’s journal recording a trip from Boston to Calcutta in 1852 -1853. Longmeadow residents with material in the collection include Ebenezer Bliss, Julia M. Bliss, Samuel C. Booth, Ethan Ely, Martha Fitch, Patty Fitch and Richard Salter Storrs. The authorship for a number of the manuscript items is not known.
Box and Folder Listing
| Creator | Description | Date range | Box:Folder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bliss, Chloe | Friendship album | 1827-1836 | 1:1 |
| Bliss, Ebenezer | Penmanship and math notes (2 vols.) | undated | 1:2 |
| Bliss, Julia M. | History notes | undated | 1:3 |
| Bliss, Julia M. | Science notes | undated | 1:4 |
| Booth, David | French notes | 1818 | 1:5 |
| Booth, Joseph | Math notes | 1817 | 1:6 |
| Booth, Lucy | Penmanship book | 1807 | 1:7 |
| Booth, Samuel C. | Penmanship books (4 vols.) | 1820-1825 | 1:8 |
| Booth, Samuel C. | Penmanship books (2 vols.) and math notes | 1823-1826 | 1:9 |
| Coomes, Julia Sexton | Writing book | 1825 | 2:1 |
| Ely, Ethan | Math notes and teachers notebook | 1806, undated | 2:2 |
| Fitch, Martha (d. 1831) | Copybooks | 1810-1830 | 2:3 |
| Fitch, Pabody (d. 1806) | Copybook | 1791-1792 | 2:4 |
| Fitch, Patty (b. 1799) | Copybooks and diaries | 1814-1816 and undated | 2:5 |
| Goldthwaite, Martha | Sketchbook | 1883-1890 | 2:6 |
| Storrs, Jonathan | Textbook of Ministers Preaching | 1819-1850 | 2:7 |
| Richard Salter Storrs | Geography notes | 1782 | 2:8 |
| Unknown | Commonplace book | undated | 2:9 |
| Unknown | Geographical Extracts | undated | 2:10 |
| Unknown | Politics and Government | undated | 2:11 |
| Unknown | Literary | 1820-1826 | 2:12 |
| Unknown | Commonplace book with index | 1782-1783 | 3:1 |
| Unknown | History copybook. Not located, 2018 | Late 19th century | 3:2 |
| Unknown | School mathematics copybook | undated, before 1850 | 3:3 |
| Unknown | Penmanship book. “The Juvenile Penman..” | 1814 | 3:4 |
| Unknown | Volume containing what appears to be a short story or novella. | undated | 3:5 |
| Unknown | Copybook including sections on English history and ancient history | After 1871 | 3:6 |
| Unknown | Composition, “On the abilities of the sexes” | 1808 | 3:7 |
| Unknown | Composition, “On the benefits of combination” | undated | 3:8 |
| Unknown | Poetry and biblical fragments | undated | 3:9 |
| Unknown | Volume of several handwritten hymns | undated | 3:10 |
| Unknown | Accounting of expenses, 2 items | 1718-1721 | 3:11 |
| Unknown | A schedule of the exercises of exhibition | undated | 3:12 |
| Azor Gale | Bills of lading | 1697 | 3:13 |
| Various | Bills | 1789, 1815 | 3:14 |
| Various | Dry goods bill. | 1820 | 3:15 |
| Various | Indentures | 1737-1799 | 3:16 |
| Various | Indentures | 1801-1818 | 3:17 |
| Unknown | Lamentation of General Burgoyne, handwritten copy and newspaper clipping | undated | 3:18 |
| Unknown | Attachments and payment orders | 1815-1840 | 3:19 |
| Unknown | Recipes and remedies | undated | 3:20 |
| Unknown | Notes and extracts on legal matters | circa 1800 | 3:21 |
| Unknown | Unsigned letter | 1836 | 3:22 |
| Unknown | Miscellaneous manuscripts | undated | 3:23 |
| Unknown | Fragments | undated | 3:24 |
| Unknown | Journal noting sermons heard | 1815-1816 | 3:25 |
| Unknown | Account of who preached on a series of Sundays. | 1791-1792 | 3:26 |
| Unknown | Fragment | undated | 3:27 |
| Unknown | Probate Inventory | undated | 3:28 |
| Unknown | Sermon written on announcement for Williams College commencement, 1818 | undated | 3:29 |
| Unknown | Home remedy recipes | undated | 3:30 |
| Unknown | Extract from an oration delivered to the Baccalaureates at Union College by Eliphalet Nott, 1806 | undated | 3:31 |
| Unknown | 2 papers, one on female education and one on religion | undated | 3:32 |
| Unknown | Questions and answers | undated | 3:33 |
| Unknown | Notes on sermons heard | undated | 3:34 |
| Unknown | Poetry | 1815 and 1829 | 3:35 |
| Unknown | Brief history of Longmeadow | undated | 3:36 |
| Unknown | Letter concerning a will | undated | 3:37 |
| Unknown | Seaman’s journal (formerly BV 48) | 1852-1853 | Boxed volume |
Types of material
- Commonplace books
- School notebooks
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