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Drawing of an enslaved person with text beginning 'Oh! let not my unoffending children endure…' by C. Stewart.

Scope and Contents From the File: Album titled 'Negro’s Album of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Society, [Sheffield], 1828'. The first third of the album is printed material, and the rest are handwritten contributions in prose and verse by a number of different people, with several illustrations. James Montgomery contributes a number of poems, with notes.A handwritten note in the front of the album reads: 'N 1. Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society[.] It is particularly requested that no book belonging to this...

Scope and Contents Loose papers in the front pocket of the album:Photograph of John Brown with inscription.Extract from a letter from the Cape of Good Hope, 5 Jan 1826.Advertisement for the Work Bags and albums of the Ladies’ Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves, the money raised from the Work Bags and albums being put towards circulating information about the slave trade and supporting enslaved and formerly enslaved people.Anti-Slavery...

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Loose papers in the back pocket of the album:

Note from R. Mallinson to M. A. Rawson, Wincobank, Sheffield.

Black and white engraving titled 'A Tread-mill Scene in Jamaica.'

Anti-Slavery dial, showing the relative time of day in London with places in the world where people were enslaved, with profits from the dial given to the Anti-Slavery Society.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Handwritten poem titled 'Winco Wood', by D. Ball, the Governess at Wincobank Hall (home of Mary Anne Read).

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Handwritten poem titled 'Written after hearing a sermon on Luke 7:35', by E.S., Ebenezer Smith was the grandfather of Mary Anne Read.

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Handwritten poem titled 'To my Sister', by Elizabeth Read, Wincobank, to her sister Mary Anne Read.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Pencil sketch of Norton House, Derbyshire, titled 'the residence of my uncle and birthplace of my sister Eliza'.

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Handwritten poem titled 'A Fable', by James Montgomery, Sheffield. The four-page poem does not appear elsewhere.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.

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Handwritten book titled in pencil 'A Treasury of pen and pencil memorials of absent friends', with note above 'Mary Anne Read, Wincobank'.

The volume consists of contributions from friends and acquaintances of Mary Anne Read, in prose, verse or quotation. There are handwritten notes and directions in her hand, as well as several sketches. James Montgomery contributes a four-page poem: 'A Fable', beginning 'A Star would be a Flower; So down from heaven it came…'.