Album of poetry
Subtitle: [manuscript]
Contributors: Montgomery, James, 1771-1854; Pike, J. G. (John Gregory), 1784-1854; Watts, Susanna, 1768-1842
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Skeffington, Leicester, England
Language: eng
Subjects: Commonplace books; Specimens; Modern Poetry; Manuscripts; Social life and customs
Notes: Original purple morocco binding, decorated in blind; the album contains, as well as verse in various hands, pencil drawings, watercolors, music, pasted-in ephemera, etc.

Album of poems gathered by Mary Anne Neale, a poet who lived in Skeffington, Leicester, England and in Bron Seiont, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales; many of the poets are from the Leicester area; most of the poems have anti-slavery, evangelical, or missonary themes; among the notable contributors are James Montgomery (1771-1854), Scottish abolitionist poet; John Gregory Pike (1784-1854), Baptist missionary; and Susanna Watts (1768-1842), abolitionist.