"Principally written during a tour in North America" Canto I - 40 stanzas; Canto II - 48 stanzas; Canto III (number only) Begins: The circling year again with steady course/Renews its infant days...and ends: Farewell. This book is now indeed my last,/And these bright scenes and hours will be forever past Poem commemorates the beauty and storms of nature in the New World (I-31), America (I-3, II-1), Hudson River (II-8), Trenton River (II-12), Lake Erie (II-24, 28), Niagara (II-29, 37), the name of Washington (II-1,2), and states: But Man is not my theme; again I turn/To thee sweet Nature... (II-3) Blank leaves: 37 Watermark: J Green Son 1825
Contents: 1) Kathleen in Kathleen Mavourneen. 44 p. 13 cm.; 2) Kitty in Kathleen. Act II. 6 p. 16 cm.; 3) Dorothy Kavanagh in Kathleen Mavourneen. 7 p. 16 cm.; 4) Albert in Monte Cristo. Acts III IV. 13 p. 15 cm.; 5) Mercedes in Monte Cristo. 12 p. 13 cm.; 6) Mary Mortimer in Naval engagements. 25 p. 14 cm.; 7) Mrs. Lee in A noble outcast. 14 p. 16 cm.; 8) Daphne in Pygmalion and Galatea. 12 p. 14 cm.; 9) Fanny in Prologue--Ten nights. 5 p. 15 cm.; 10) Sadie. 17 p. 15 cm.; 11) Unidentified. 26 p. 16 cm. Name "Mary Coolidge" appears on the parts of Kathleen, Mercedes, and Mary Mortimer Some pages written on stationery of the Assumption Pioneer, Napoleonville, Louisiana, 189-; Hotel White, Edenton, North Carolina, 1899; Turnbull's Hotel, Warrenton, North Carolina, 189-; Orangeburg Hotel, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 189-. Accompanied by broadside and leaflet advertising the Carew-Kinsington theatre company featuring Mary and Janet Carew and managed by R. G. Kingston in "The Girl from Home"
Mounted on front flyleaf of C. B. Foote's Catalogue of the...collection made by Charles B. Foote...sold at auction...by Bangs Co... New York, 1894-1895 (Lilly Z997 .F68).
Folded octavo sheet has pencilled notes in French and arithmetic figures in ink on the verso Removed from John Robert Gregg, Light-line phonography; the phonetic handwriting. Liverpool: Light Line Phonography Institute, 62 Dale Street, 1888 (Lilly from the Ian Fleming Collection).