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Anonymous copybook of sermons, fables and letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0224
Abstract
This copybook contains handwritten sermons, fables, and letters. Included are: “A letter concerning a consumption,” “The Ambitious Man punished,” Useful and Amusing Conversations,” Useful and wholesome Reflections,” “Reflections on Voltaire’s Semiramis,” “Reflections on our dying Saviour’s Prayer upon the Cross,” and more.
Dates:
1750 - 1760
Richard and Sandra Lauderdale Graham Brazilian Chapbook and Slides Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0650
Abstract
The collection consists of fifty-seven inexpensively produced booklets of verse
with woodblock print or photo image covers. The booklets are quarto size,
4-3/4” by 6-3/8”, and range in length from eight to forty-eight pages. The
content is in verse in stanzas of six, seven, eight, or ten lines.
The booklets are examples of a folk art known as literature de cordel, or
“string literature,” because of being attached to strings as a means of
displaying them for sale. The...
Dates:
circa 1960-1990
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