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[Identification of item], in the Jane Grahame Commonplace-Book #11008-z, Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchased from Ralph T. Howey of Philadelphia, Pa., in April 1965.

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• Commonplace-books.
• Grahame, James, 1765-1811.
• Grahame, Jane.
• Grahame, Jean Bryson Robertson.
• Mothers and daughters--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
• Silhouettes.
• Stedman, Elizabeth.

Jane Grahame, presumably of Glasgow, Scotland, was the daughter of Jean Bryson Robertson Grahame and the sister of the Scottish poet James Grahame (1765-1811).

Commonplace book, apparently chiefly compiled by Jane Grahame, containing transcriptions and clippings of poems by well-known poets; a transcription of a letter, 1764-1767, by Elizabeth Stedman of Philadelphia, giving advice to her daughter; five pages of mounted silhouettes, presumably of members of the Grahame family; and a few pages of original manuscripts pasted in, one of which is in the hand of James Grahame.