Skip to Content

M. S. Morris, Miscellaneous extracts 1816: autograph manuscript signed, 1816 December 6

 Item — Book: PR1222 M67 1816

1 volume (3 unnumbered leaves, 6 unnumbered pages, 1 blank leaf, 209 pages, 1 blank page) 18 x 12 cm. Full tan leather; spine has four sets of double raised bands, stamped in gold and lettered in red in the second and fourth compartments; covers stamped in gold, black, and blind with two sets of gilt double rules; gilt patterned turn-ins; black and white headbands; aquamarine endpapers; all edges gilt.

Commonplace book of M.S. Morris, with poems by various authors, copied in clean script most likely from contemporary English literary journals. Authors are not named, but include Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Campbell, John Wolcot, Robert Burns, Anna Seward, Thomas Gray, Ralph Griffiths, and many others.

Transferred to Rare Books PR1222 M67 1816

Dates

  • Creation: 1816 December 6

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Manuscripts Collecting Area

Contact:
Joel Minor
Olin Library, 1 Brookings Drive
MSC 1061-141-B
St. Louis MO 63130 US
(314) 935-5495