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Manuscript box 36 - folder 1

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Mary G. Phillips valentines and songbook

 Item — manuscript box: 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 1390m
Scope and content Valentine sent from Puerto Rico to Mary Geisler Phillips, circa 1898; valentine addressed "From H. to Mary," May 13, 1903, from Jamaica; and accompanying handmade heart-shaped arrangements of milkweed silk (?), lace, and dried flowers. Also, a child's writing notebook, containing exercises in copying out poems and spelling vocabulary words. Much of the notebook was later repurposed as a scrapbook for lyrics of sentimental popular songs, undated but probably from the turn of the 20th century,...
Dates: 1898?-1903.