Father Abbey's will and other poems
Contributors: Seccombe, John, 1708-1792; Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865; Rudd, Alice A.
Published: 18uu
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 88
Description: Scrapbook containing mostly poetry, prose fiction, biographical narratives, essays, and other literary items. Also contains news articles and obituaries. The bulk of the items concern or originate from New England, though also contains material concerning or from New York and other places.
Notes: Chiefly clippings, also includes broadsides, prints, and manuscript material in several unidentified hands; the few dated items are from the mid- to late-19th century.

Bound in three-quarter leather with marbled paper boards.

See curatorial file for more information.

MS Am 2850. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Father Abbey's Will (f. 68v) is a poem inspired by the death of Matthew Abdy, Harvard College sweeper and bottle washer who died in the early 1730s.

Many items in the scrapbook conern the Rudd family of Norwich (Conn.), including a poem "copied for Auntie Rudd" (f. 70r), another poem given to Alice A. Rudd (76v), the obituary of Simon T. Rudd (86v), and a manuscript note about Rudd family genealogy (86v).

In English with one item in Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Manuscript valentines (ff. 35v-36r); title: Epitaph on Joseph Crump (54v); title: Father Abbey's Will / by John Seccombe (68v); title: Speak gently / by David Bates (69v); title: Las Buenas Noches (76v); title: Patriotic Enigma ; a poem from the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, 1844 (77v); title: The Brothers / Lydia Howard Sigourney (84v)