| Description | Commonplace book, likely made using an exemplar. Bookplate of L Austin on the front pastedown. Poetry, extracts of prose, mottoes, epithets, including some printed on lace-edged or embossed paper and pasted in. Also drawings of buildings, flowers, a bird and shells. Various miscellaneous material including pressed flowers and a blue 15kr Austrian stamp (c1858). Large coloured pencil drawing of a woman wearing a floral headdress on the last page.
Some entries signed or initialled, Elizabeth Stansbury appears several times. |