Compositions of Lizzie Carroll, St. John's School (Patterson's Complete Composition Book)

“Patterson's Complete Composition Book,” published by Potter, Ainsworth & Co. in 1875. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, wide 8vo, 12pp + [64] ruled pages. Good to Very Good with rubbing to extremities, fading and fraying to spine. Textblock reattached and spine relined with Japanese paper. Delicate, but clean and bright. Some ink is quite faded but remains legible. The notebook includes 12 pages of printed “Directions for Pupils” and “Suggestions to Teachers,” comprising a mixture of suggested lessons and their foundations; a review of rhetorical forms, grammar and punctuation, practical examples of business forms and correspondence. This copy contains the handsomely ornamented compositions of Lizzie Carroll, St. John's School, Baltimore. 64 manuscript pages of copied poems and addresses, drafts of letters, biographical sketches of famous figures and an original essay on the topic of attire. The notebook spans about the course of a year, based on the advancing months in the lette