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Notebook, Undated
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
16 pages, all with inscription, unpaged. Mary Chrystie's signature on inside front wrapper; and written on inside front wrapper in her mother, Frances Few Chrystie's hand: "Written at 7 years of age". Notebook contains a story entitled "Little Tom and his Mother"; 2 hymns ("Hark! the skies with music sound..." and "begone, unbelief, my Saviour is near..."); a short story (really Bible quotations) about two children who memorize Matthew 5:3-7; text of the Golden Rule; an unfinished story of the discovery of an abandoned baby (continues after skipping 2 pages); an assortment of moral verses; pencil drawing of a country house and a neighboring church; beginning of a poem called "Robin"; beginning of the Guy Fawkes day poem "5th of November".
- Arrangement
No discernible arrangement.
Collection History
- Appraisal
No materials were separated during 2014 processing.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Credit this material:
Notebook; Mary Chrystie Papers, COTSEN1, Cotsen Children's Library, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (hsvc)
- Box 2
NoteThis collection is stored at Firestone Library, RBSC South East, Cotsen.
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- Bibliography
Eric Johnson, Ohio State University, "Making Mary: Maternal Shaping and the Construction of Childhood in the Mary Christie Archive".