Miscellany of Mrs. Anne (Jackson) Mathews [manuscript], 1817-ca. 1859.
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Title
Miscellany of Mrs. Anne (Jackson) Mathews [manuscript], 1817-ca. 1859.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Common-place book, 1817-ca. 1859
Description
5 v.
Associated name
Scope and content
This common-place book no doubt occupied the actress (wife and biographer of the actor, Charles Mathews) during a considerable period of her life. The contents are varied, but mainly prose, from both old and recent works, including Shakespeare and many recent novels, plays, biographies, and letters.
From the fact that M.a.145 is labeled "Extracts &c Vol. 12" and M.a. 147 "Extracts &c. Vol. 15" it may be assumed that these six volumes represent but a small part of Mrs. Mathew's work. The volumes may be arbitrarily arranged as follows: M.a.143 Paper watermarked with date "1817." Titled "Extracts, Reflections &c. of Anne Mathews." An extract copied from "Farmer's tour to the Levant. 1820" p. 237. Contents largely extracts from the Greek and Latin classics and from earlier English literature. Half red roan. 24 x 20 cm. (M.a. 144) Paper watermarked with date "1817" but of a different mark than that of v. 1. Bound in morocco and stamped "Anne Mathews." An extract copied from "Blackwood's Magazine of February, 1858" (p. 286). Refers to her husband (p. 157, 172) and to her half-sister, Frances Maria Kelly (p. 134-135). Full red roan. 24 x 19 cm. (M.a.145) Paper watermarked with date "1821." An extract "From the Autobiography of Caroline Fry written in 1839," i.e. Caroline Fry Wilson, Autobiography, 1848, on p. 26. "Edwards in Life of Scott 1818, p. 169, speaking of my husband ... 'Chas. Mathews,' " p. 206. Half red roan. 22.5 x 18.5 cm. (M.a.146) Paper watermarked with dates "1821" and "1822." "Extracts from the Life of Talleyrand by M. Colmache, 1850," leaf 51v. Half red roan. 23 x 18.5 cm. (M.a.147) Paper watermarked with date "1828." "A portrait in 1859," p. 306. Half black roan. 23.5 x 18.5 cm. (M.a.148) Watermark undated. On flyleaf "A.M. 1826." Half black roan. 20 x 16.5 cm.
From the fact that M.a.145 is labeled "Extracts &c Vol. 12" and M.a. 147 "Extracts &c. Vol. 15" it may be assumed that these six volumes represent but a small part of Mrs. Mathew's work. The volumes may be arbitrarily arranged as follows: M.a.143 Paper watermarked with date "1817." Titled "Extracts, Reflections &c. of Anne Mathews." An extract copied from "Farmer's tour to the Levant. 1820" p. 237. Contents largely extracts from the Greek and Latin classics and from earlier English literature. Half red roan. 24 x 20 cm. (M.a. 144) Paper watermarked with date "1817" but of a different mark than that of v. 1. Bound in morocco and stamped "Anne Mathews." An extract copied from "Blackwood's Magazine of February, 1858" (p. 286). Refers to her husband (p. 157, 172) and to her half-sister, Frances Maria Kelly (p. 134-135). Full red roan. 24 x 19 cm. (M.a.145) Paper watermarked with date "1821." An extract "From the Autobiography of Caroline Fry written in 1839," i.e. Caroline Fry Wilson, Autobiography, 1848, on p. 26. "Edwards in Life of Scott 1818, p. 169, speaking of my husband ... 'Chas. Mathews,' " p. 206. Half red roan. 22.5 x 18.5 cm. (M.a.146) Paper watermarked with dates "1821" and "1822." "Extracts from the Life of Talleyrand by M. Colmache, 1850," leaf 51v. Half red roan. 23 x 18.5 cm. (M.a.147) Paper watermarked with date "1828." "A portrait in 1859," p. 306. Half black roan. 23.5 x 18.5 cm. (M.a.148) Watermark undated. On flyleaf "A.M. 1826." Half black roan. 20 x 16.5 cm.
Language Note
In English, Greek, and Latin
Binding information
M.a.143,145,146 half red roan, marbled boards
144 red morocco rebacked.
147-148 half black roan, marbled boards.
144 red morocco rebacked.
147-148 half black roan, marbled boards.
Provenance
Each volume has the bookplate of Mrs. Mathews (British Museum, Franks coll., Cat. of bkpl. no. 19985.)
Genre/form
Call number
M.a.143-48
Folger accession
v.1,2: 1287 ; v.3,4,5: 1327 ; v.6: 135