Manuscript album amicorum kept

by Cecilia Beverly Stearns Houghton, with entries in poetry and prose from friends, fellow Methodists, and others related to Turin, Ny, Red Creek Union Academy or nearby

$350 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Manuscript throughout, written on multi-colored paper. Approx. 40pp. the rest being blank . 8vo. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper boards, worn. Item #339219 Cecilia Beverly Stearns 1812-1900 married Rev. Royal Houghton 1802-1881 in 1837, a minister in the Central New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of note in this album is a young woman named Phebe Candee who following her entry identifies herself as deaf

• Binding: Leather

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