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Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell's Autograph Book, Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

This Autograph Book, also called an Album Book, belonged to Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell and is full of messages, many of them poems, written to her by friends and family. The book is bound in black leather decorated with floral designs and printed with several picturesque engravings in its pages like "View of Northumberland (on the Susquehanna)" engraved by H. Griffiths after a picture by W. H. Bartlet.

County Tax Receipt, Angeline C. Cornell, December 15, 1848, Angeline Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

County tax receipt printed by the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County. Angeline C. Cornell paid 0.89 cents and 8 mills.

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell, December 12, 1848, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Elias Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated December 12, 1848. The total is nine dollars and ten cents and five mills. Signed by J Liley.

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell, November 3, 1847, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Elias Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated November 3, 1847. The total is eight dollars, eight cents, and three mills. Signed by J Liley.

County Tax Receipt, Angeline C. Cornell, November 3, 1847, Angeline C. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Angeline C. Cornell from County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated November 3, 1847. The total is eighty cents. Signed by J. Liley.

County Tax Receipt, Angeline Cornell, October 21, 1846, Angeline C. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Angeline C. Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated October 21, 1846. The total is forty seven cents. Signed by J Liley.

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell, October 21, 1846, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Elias Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated October 21, 1846. The total is seven dollars and fifteen cents. Signed by J Liley.

Receipt From Angeline C. Cornell, May 9, 1846, Angeline B. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Receipt from Angeline C. Cornell for clerk fees. It reads "Rec_ May 9th 1846 of Mrs Angeline C. Cornell guardian of John B. + Alice J. Cornell one dollar and fifty cents clerk fees for this time

L. Heyl CLK"

Guardianship Letter, May 9, 1846, Lewis Heyl

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Letter from Lewis Heyl, clerk of Common Pleas that declares Angeline C. Cornell to have guardianship over John B. Cornell and Alice J. Cornell. The back reads "1846 guardianship for Angeline C. Bishop-Cornell for her two children following her husband (Elias') death."

Golden Maxims: Or, A Thought For Every Day In The Year, Rev. Robert Bond

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

This book, titled "Golden Maxims: Or, A Thought for Every Day in the Year," is pocket-sized and clothbound with golden gilt edges. A small photographic portrait of a young man identified as Otto. B Cornell is pasted on the front endpapers. On the same page, the book is signed in pen by an owner with "Alice J. Cornell, Westerville, Ohio."

Deed Of Sale For Seven People (As Slaves) Sold By William O'Neale To John Henry Eaton, Washington, D.C., April 10, 1823., William O'Neale, John Henry Eaton

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This deed or receipt acknowledges the exchange of $800 for seven slaves: Betsy Baker, 55; Nelly, 36 and her son Jim, 12 and daughter Jane, 7; Henney, 40, and her son Washington, 5; and Polly Quander, 21.

List Of Prisoners In Jail, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 6, 1785., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

List of prisoners "confined in the common goal in Worcester in the County of Worcester," September 6, 1785. Next to the prisoners' names are the charges for which they are confined.

List Of Prisoners In Jail, Worcester, Massachusetts, June 6, 1785., Worcester County

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

List of prisoners "confined in the Common Goal in Worcester." List includes names of prisoners and charges for which they were imprisoned.