Description of University of Pennsylvania MS 56, Codex 054.1: Elizabeth Willis Gloster Anderson commonplace book : University of Pennsylvania 2026-10-08 2026-10-08 These images and the content of Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies MS 56, Codex 054.1: Elizabeth Willis Gloster Anderson commonplace book : are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2026 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703 University of Pennsylvania Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies MS 56, Codex 054.1 9979884322303681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1581092570 https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/563a4047-f71b-431c-ba0d-0dd1df4fc4e8 Blank book containing poetry copied from the late 1820s through the Civil War to the late 1860s by Elizabeth Willis Anderson, members of her family (including brother George, sisters Caroline and Mary, child D.B.A., and grandchild J. W. Anderson), and friends (including Ellen Mordecai, a teacher at the nondenominational Warrenton Female Academy, founded by her father Jacob Mordecai in 1809); a note of a stanza written in the hand of Francis Scott Key as an addition to a poem by Robert Burns (note laid in before poem, f. 8r); and pinned newspaper clippings of poetry. The book is signed Elizabeth W. Anderson, 1827 (f. 2r), and the entries written in Warrenton in 1827 anticipate her departure for Tennessee (f. 3v-15r); Elizabeth Anderson's copy of a poem written by her husband for their twentieth anniversary (f. 23r) can be no later than 1847; the newspaper clippings in the second half of the volume refer to Memphis, New Orleans, and Galveston, with the latest dated clipping being from 1868 (f. 41r). The blank book was produced commercially, with the gilt spine title Album. Elizabeth Willis Gloster Anderson commonplace book : Anderson, Elizabeth Willis Gloster, 1796-1873 associated name Mordecai, Ellen, 1790-1884 associated name Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843 former owner Anderson, Mary May, 1821-1879 former owner Yancey, Elva May, 1842-1948 former owner Graham, Alice, 1877- donor Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor Kaplan, Deanne

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 1 volume (69 leaves) : 16 x 11 cm + 1827-circa 1868 Warrenton, North Carolina; La Grange, Tennessee; San Saba?, Texas Formerly owned by Mary May Anderson (1821-1879; University Archives). Formerly owned by Elva May Yancey (1842-1948; University Archives). Formerly owned by music teacher Alice Graham (born 1877), bequeathed by her to the family of the most recent owner, who was one of her students (Alabama; University Archives). Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2023 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (University Archives (Wilton, Connecticut), 1 February 2023, lot 351) (Collectify no. 2023.03.29.00006; 13.2010). Women--Southern States--History--Sources Jews--North Carolina--History--Sources codices (bound manuscripts) Commonplace books Poetry Clippings Manuscripts, American--19th century Manuscripts, English--19th century