Deborah Goldsmith Commonplace Book
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Goldsmith, Deborah, 1808-1836
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content: Deborah Goldsmith commonplace books
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content: Some of the images are of poor quality due to the original microfilming process.
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content: 1826-1933
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.golddebo, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: A commonplace book titled "Deborah Goldsmith Album, 1826 to 1830, No. 1," begins with a summary preface by Olive Cole Smith, the granddaughter of Goldsmith. Also found are genealogical notations written by James A. Throop, the son of Goldsmith, in 1892. Goldsmith's book contains sentiments, as well as poems and verses by Goldsmith and by her friends as a remembrance.

A commonplace book, October 19, 1829 through December 27, 1832, which contains fifteen drawings by Goldsmith (the first, "Oliver Goldsmith," according to Jean Lipman, is drawn after a Joshua Reynolds painting), one drawing possibly by George Addison Throop, and the later inclusion of a childhood drawing, circa 1837, by Goldsmith's daughter, Cordelia; sonnets, poems, and prose inscribed by Goldsmith and by her friends, including a lengthy theme by future husband George Addison Throop, "A Thought on Death and the Grave," 1832; and a genealogical outline entered by son James A. Throop, 1894, with intermittent annotations by granddaughter Olive Cole Smith, 1933 and undated. In addition, there is a clipping concerning Olive Cole Smith's civic activities, and a brief letter from Jean Lipman (who had consulted Goldsmith's diaries in the course of research for an article) relaying her finding concerning the Oliver Goldsmith portrait in the diary.