Cornelia Davenport's Scrapbook

Marblized paper cover of Cornelia Davenport's school girl scrapbook which was conserved in 2018.

Inside Front Cover/Left : (In pencil) Sarah, Md, Sarah R. Davenport, Henry Kollock Davenport, Is. Isabella McN. Davenport, Rosa - ? Davenport, Archibald C. Davenport, Augusta Davenport

Inside Front Cover/Right : (in pencil) C. Augusta Davenport, da, Cornelia A. Davenport, 349 Girarson Phistung its?, Philadelphia | (In Pen) Cornelia A. Davenport, Savannah, Georgia.

Oh! Man may bear with suffering; his heart / Is a strong thing and godlike in the grasp / Of pain that wrings mortality; but tear / One hard? Affection clings to, part one tie / That binds him to a woman's delicate love, / And his great spirit yielded like a seed. / May slighted woman turn, / and, as a vine that oak hath shaken off, / Bend lightly to her tendencies again? / O, no! By all her loveliness, by all, / That makes life poetry and beauty, no! / Make her a slave; steal from her rosy cheek, / By needless jealousies; let the last star / Leave her a notcher by your couch of pain; / Wrong her by petulance, suspicion, all / That makes her a cup of bitterness - yet give / One evidence of love, and earth has not / An ambulance of devotedness like hers. / But oh! Estrange her once, it boots no how, / By wrong or silence, any thing that tells / A change has come upon your tenderness / And there is not a high thing out of heaven / Her pride o'ermastereth not. / Hagar in the wilderness / N.P. Wilderness" />

Oh! Man may bear with suffering; his heart / Is a strong thing and godlike in the grasp / Of pain that wrings mortality; but tear / One hard? Affection clings to, part one tie / That binds him to a woman's delicate love, / And his great spirit yielded like a seed. / May slighted woman turn, / and, as a vine that oak hath shaken off, / Bend lightly to her tendencies again? / O, no! By all her loveliness, by all, / That makes life poetry and beauty, no! / Make her a slave; steal from her rosy cheek, / By needless jealousies; let the last star / Leave her a notcher by your couch of pain; / Wrong her by petulance, suspicion, all / That makes her a cup of bitterness - yet give / One evidence of love, and earth has not / An ambulance of devotedness like hers. / But oh! Estrange her once, it boots no how, / By wrong or silence, any thing that tells / A change has come upon your tenderness / And there is not a high thing out of heaven / Her pride o'ermastereth not. / Hagar in the wilderness / N.P. Wilderness

A lock of brown hair

Flower and Leaf pressed between the Pages

4 Pages Inward : (card at top) Augustus R. MacDonough (printed) Miss Davenport (written in script lower left corner | (center card) (pencil) August 24 (ink) Jos. W. Jackson (pencil) of Savannah for Miss Davenport | (bottom card) Richard S. Stores, Jr. (printed) & Ms. Watson (written in pencil)

The Bride: It has passed thee my daughter; fare thee well, / Pledged is the faith, inscribed the vow; / Yet let these gushing tear drops speak, / Of all thy mother's anguish now. / And when on distant stranger shares; / Love beams from brighter eyes than mine, / When other hand they tresses neare?, / And other lips are pressed too thine. / -- / O then remember her who grieves / With parent fondness for her child; / whose lonely path of thee bereft, / Is like some desert, lone and wild (mild); / Where erst a simple flowered grew, / Where erst one timid wild bird sung; Nor lonely, dark and desolate / No bird nor flower its shades among. / -- / And when they children climb the knee / And whisper, "Mother, mother dear!" / O, then the thoughts of her recall / thou leaves broken hearted here.

Sandwiched Between the Next Two Pages: Strands of Yellow Hair

The Bride (continued): And as their sinless offerings rise / To God's own footstool, let them crave / A blessing on her memory, / Who slumbers in the peaceful grave. / -- / When care shall dim they sunny rye / And one by one, the ties are broken / That binds thee to the earth, this kiss / Will linger yet - thy mother's token; / Twill speak her changeless love for thee, / Speak what se strives in vain to tell, / The yearning of a parent's heart - / My only child, farewell! Farewell! / --

(Verses written in ink, above a flower -decayed- on a stain ribbon) May 1839 / As we look back through life in our movements of sadness / How few, and how brief are its gleanings of gladness. / Yet we find midst the gloom that our pathway o'ershaded. / A few spots of sunshine, -a few flowers unfaded:- / And memory still hoards, as her richest of treasures. / Some moments of rapture, -some exquisite pleasures. / One hour of such bliss is a life ere it closes. / Tis one drop of fragrance from thousands of roses. --"

[Calling card -- Very faint] : (Printed) Mr. E.A.T. Lloyd, R.N. | (Pencil Lower Left hand Corner) I.B.Jr. B. Broussard. | (Pencil Below Card) New York.

Leaf Pressed with writing on the veins -- Undecipherable

2 Calling cards -- It looks like there was a card in between but is no longer there | (Upper Card- Printed Very Small) Miss Mary D. Ely | (Lower Card - Printed very small) Richard S. Ely; (written in pencil upper left-hand corner) to Miss Davenport

Photocopy of "A Favorite Quickstep" from The Wrecker's Daughter

Sheet Music/on a separate sheet -- a photocopy was made -- "A Favorite Quickstep" from The Wrecker's Daughter

Small Bouquet held together with white satin ribbon -- below it to the lower right-hand corner a card -- undecipherable -- could read Miss Davenport or Wm A. Hudford/Hudson

(Poem on the right-hand side of the spread. Above it is a ring of reddish brown hair tied in a white ribbon in the ring is written in pencil -- M.E.S. ) This is a face to look upon and pray / That a pure spirit keep thee -- I would meet / With one so gentle by the streams sway, / Living with nature; keeping they pure feet, / For the unfingered moss, and for the grass / Which beneath where the gentle water pass. / The Autumn leave should sign thee to thy sleep, / and the capricious April, coming on, / Awake thee like Endymion; / And thou for very gentleness shouldest-weep / As dew of the night's quietness comes down.

Two types of leaves.

Top - Ring of braided hair with a bow ribbon at the top, initials written in ink at the top | Write, write what shall I write? / I wish the book was out of sight!! No!!! Birds!! | "Joys are sweeter when intermingled with sorrows." For instance / Gen effic altogether! / Wont you have a pickle? / Wish somebody would borrow a peach for our folks. / If the trio has not lost their hearts before hand. Maybe / As how they would give them to the "peach borrower." / But now to this nonsense a truce / For I am sure it can't be much use. / Forgive my foolishness or folly / And believe me as ever, your affectionate holly." / "Bon Soir"

Ring of Brown hair tied in ribbon interlocked in the page tied leaves | "When evening dews are falling fast -- / When stars are shining clear, / We'll think of hours so sweet, though past, / When thou wast with us here. / And thou too -- will -- thou hover near, / If thus to thee 'tis given, / To meet with those on earth so dear. / While thou art bless in Heaven! / There's not in all that radiant sky . One little orb we see, / But brings thy cherished image nigh, / And turns our hearts to thee / And oft we wish thee here again. / Yet be that wish forgiven! / And hush'd the thought so wild, so vain -- / Be thou still ours in heaven!" | (Written on the Side) Hartford April 10th 1840. --

Lock of hair in a ribbon

A drawing on a piece of paper glued to the page. | Lock of hair at the top of the drawing. | Drawing of: The border looks like a frame. | Picture is of a classically inspired tomb with the instruction: .Byron. (in the center of the tomb) | In the slab underneath the tomb the instruction reads: ERECTED BY HIS SISTER 1834-10 | (Underneath the drawing on the page is written in ink): G.M.W. Hadley. August 1835

Also a ribbon fixed to the top of the page. Written in the ring: "Lister Yao" | An obelisk monument drawing on a separate sheet of paper. In the center is drawn either a mummy, skeleton, or soldier. | Written on the Obelisk: "SACRED / To / The Memory / OF / Him qui / Pinxit / Hogl" | Loose brown hair on page.

Ribbon that once held a lock of hair in the center written in ink M.C.C | Poem below: "Hast thou forgot friend of my better days, / Hast thou forgot the early innocent hoys / Of our remotest childhood; when our lives / Were linked in one, and our young hearts bloomed out / Like violet-bells, upon the self same stem, / Pouring the dewy odors of life's spring / Into each 'there bosom -- all the bright / And sorrow thoughts of a confiding love, / And intermingled vows, and blossoming hopes / Of future good, and infant-dream of bliss, / Budding and breathing sunnily about them / As crimson-spotted cups, in springtime hang, / On all the delicate fibres of the vine."

4 locks of hair | underneath one written in pencil "Archibald C. Davenport" | Underneath another - reddish, brown with a touch of grey held with a red ribbon written: "My Grandmother / Mrs. Susannah Clark."

3 1/2" by 3 1/2" water color drawing of 2 hearts with leaves coming out each "V" | written in ink in the center "C.A.D." | Written in ink at the top: "E. Curtis - Aubrun N.Y.--"

2 small rings of hair held together with ribbon | one at the top as "Cis" written in ink. | Underneath the lower one in pencil is: Sammy H. / New Haven-" | Small card with "Gustaus Upon-Hopkins" printed

A card in the center of the page placed in corners: | Above the card written in ink: "The Moss Rose. --" | Written on the card in pencil: top: "For Miss C. Davenport" Center written large: "Mr. A. Woudborgh's Compliments PPC" Under the card written in ink: "Friday Any 3rd 1840" | Verse written in ink: "Is thou a breast which heart the dart / Of warm but hopeful one from thee? / Deal gently with that wounded heart / Nor coldly mock its misery."-- | Also in the page/in the crease: a threaded piece of paper

Opposite Page: Upper right hand corner: Leaf tied in ribbon. | Written beside it: "Thursday, Any 2nd 1840 --"

White ribbon / In what used to be a ring of hair written "Sister / Maryanna"

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Script at the top; below an embossed card with a pencil drawing of a ship -- the embossed work is baroque -- with nymphs on each corner; foliage art, shell in the lower center / On the back of the card written in pencil: / Soanish Schooner "Clown" ? / Bareley Legible / Script at top reads: / "And such was that rainbow, that beautiful one / Whose arch was refraction, its keystone -- the sun / A pavilion it seemed with a deity graced, / And justice and mercy met these and embraced."

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Ringlet of hair typed with a ribbon at center top of page / Written in Script: / I loved thee -- not because thy brow (bow?) / Was bright and beautiful as the day, / Nor that on thy sweet lip the glow / Was joyous as you summer ray; / No; tho' I saw thee fairest-far, / The sun that hid each meaner star, / Yet twas not this that taught me first / The love that silent tears have missed. / And now could ever beauty wane, / Till not one noble trace remain; / Could genius sink in dull decay / And wisdom cease to lend her say; / Shall all that I have worshiped change, / E'en this could not my heart estrange; / Thou still wouldst be the first, the first / That taught the love sad tears have missed.

Right hand side of page: Plant or flower tied with black satin ribbon / Above written in ink: "Minny" / Plant tied with ribbon / Lana (Lance) MacDonough / written in pencil (plant name?)

in ink -- looks like a different hand / To Cornelia ~ / "Before thee is a long bright day / of summer and of joy - / Thou hast no heavy thought or dream / to cloud thy youthful eye. / Lon be it this -- life's early stream / Should still reflect the sky / Yet ere the cares of life lie dim / on thy young spirit's wings / Now in thy morn forget thought springs / So in the onward vale of tears / Where e'r thy path may be, / When strength have bowed to evil years / he will remember thee" / E...of...Auburns. / Hartford Female Seminary --- 1840

Lower Right Hand Corner: Green ribbon tied around a stem (may have been a flower at one time) / Underneath in ink: April 13th 1840

Flower between 2 pages

On right side / at the top in pencil / "Dies 26th Dec -- 1841" / Underneath in center / Braided light brown hair in a circle tied with a ribbon / In the center written in ink / "Bessie" / Underneath the ringlet: / "The human heart! 'tis a thing that lives / In the light of many shine; / And the gem of its own pure feelings gives / Too oft on brows that are false to shine. / It has many a cloud of care and woe / To shadow o'er its spring, / And the One above alone may know, / The changing tune of its thousand strings." -- / April 14th 1839

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Left hand side -- in a darker locker print than elsewhere / To Cornelia / "Then away with this pouting and sadness, / Sweet girl, will you never give o'er? / I love you, by Heaven to madness / Pray what can creature ask move? -- / S.B.T.T.W.B.K --- G(illegible) / Oui / W / A.I.N.P.P.O. --" / One large parenthesis to the left of the next 3 lines / "B.T.M.S.B.N.C.I.L.T.Y. -- / A.T.L.T.S.D.I. / P.A.M.M.C.A." / Sprig of Leaves tied in a green ribbon

Newspaper clipping (assumed the reason for saving it ) reads: / MENDING BROKEN CHINA. -- The following old receipt for mending China is said to answer admirably: -- "Take a very thick solution of gum Arabic in water and stir into it a Plaster of Paris until the mixture becomes a viscous paste. Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges, and stick them together. in three days the article cannot be broken in the same place. The whiteness of the cement renders it doubly valuable." / other side of the article / M.CARRY, Tailer, / REMOVED to the Store formerly occupied by the ... Mr. Alexander, in Bull Street ... / Nov 7-3m] / At top of page: / Yellow lock of hair tied with a red ribbon / in pencil / Henry Kollock Davenport -- / N.L.W. --

Lock of brown hair tied with a white ribbon / in the center written in ink / "Sister Charlotte"

Two business cards / Top card (in pencil at top) / "To misses Hotckiss & Davenport / (Printed) "Andrew R Humes / Tennessee / (in pencil) T.T.L. / Bottom Card (In pencil) / "Miss Mary Hopkins"

Lock of braided brown hair tied with a white ribbon / in the center written "Annie" in Pencil / News paper article pasted to the page -- center / "DIED. / In this city, on 2d inst., Miss Hannah M. Hudson, aged 19, daughter of Henry Hudson, Esq."

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Small lock of brown hair pages to a paper pasted to the page -- hair tied with whitish ribbon / Underneath / "My Little Niece. / Can I bid thee lovely stranger / Welcome to the world of care! Where attends thee many a danger / Where awaits thee many a snake. / -- / Hence, away ye dark surmises, / Hope presents a fairer scene; / Many a blooming pleasure rises, / Many a sunbeam shines serene. / -- / O may Providence defend thee! / Circled in its guardian arms, / Dangers may in vain attend thee, / Safe amid surrounding harms. / -- / Shall I wish the world caressing? / Wish thee pleasure, grader, wealth? / No - but - many a nobler blessing / Wisdom, virtue, friendship, health. / -- / May'st thou know the gracious donor, / Early know & love & praise! / Thou shall real wealth and honor, / Peace & pleasure crown thy days."

a leaf

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"A Sketch" by J.E Bruce / "Twas the deep noon of night / But still as if each zephyr had been hushed / In some distant house; the mild moonlight / Stream'd on the thousand leave of the broad oak / A lustre, like the pearly light of some / Young angel's wings when shorting on the wave (?) / Of the calm lake of heaven. A silver cloud." / Cornelia Augusta Davenport. --- / James Willard Preston. -- / Parcissa P. Whitmore -- / Jcob Halsey / Hartford April 10th 1840 / Written on the said of the above 4 lights in ink: / "wissy" or "kissy" / "why should we blush to our one love? / 'Tis love that rules the realms above; / Why should we blush to one to all, / That virtue holds our hearts in thrall?" / (Eugene Edwards) Connie's? Beloved / written in pencil / (Eugene Edwards) Pornie's beloved / My Mother

Pieces of three calling card in corners on the page / Printed: / "Wm. Fabian Law / Of Georgia" / Pencil: / "Lieut McDouough / in McDouough" / Printed: / "Henry C. Deming" / Sideways on the page / Printed: / "George M. Williams"

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Letter attached to the right hand side of the two open pages sealed with red wax

in pen and ink / "Dear Miss Davenport, I cannot let the opportunity pasty of one of my shipmates going to the city without letting you know that I have inquired about the steamer and find that it starts from its usual place the ? at 8 o'clock. I am afraid I shall not be able to accept your brothers kind invitation to dinner but should I not, I shall endeavor to be at N. York" ... (continued on next page)

... (Continued from last page) "time enough to convey you across in the steamer. As it is a rainy day and I fear that you may either be taking a "Siesta" or thinking too much about the Night Gown Ball Dress. I take the opportunity of sending you a few of my cards hoping you have not forgotten in your infinite charity your possible flush subject. The ? is about to be begin. I am very unhappy today and am determined to shoot him!!!!!! / Do you know ?? I hope you will do me the honor of dancing the first & I? not care if it ? all the cotillions that may be danced tomorrow night. Pay ? me any kindly to Miss Mills your mother / Believe me my dear Miss Davenport / Ever yours Sincerely / E.L. Lloyd"

Folded letter attached to the right hand page

Written in pencil: / "To Cornelia / There is one thing however which will be seen at once, which is the great loveliness of her mouth & lips, Every line of which speaks sweetness and gentleness, but not without firmness; tenderness in short going rather than loosing from resolution. / Those lips are altogether peculiar to the race to which she belongs, & it is to their peculiar form & expulsion that to owning that inefforth smile, which bear no slight pout in the charm that renders her society so peculiarly agreeable. "

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Pasted Letter -- folded

Written in ink or pencil / "I Elisabeth Terry of Hartford, Conn. Do faithfully promise, that one of my daughters (should heaven kindly grant me any) shall be called Cornelia or Augusta Davenport, in honor of my dear friend & school mate C.A. Davenport of Savannah Georgia, & I hereunto do I annex my name and seal. / Algebra class 16th day of June 1840 / L.L.S. / Elizabeth Terry / In presence of / Maria E. Collins / Theodoria C. Eckley / And may she posses the inward and outward adorning of that conscientious conqueror. Completely complaisant Carefully compounded of courage conviviality, courtesy, comeliness. Not continually colloquial, conceited, comic, cold, closet, complaining" ... (to be continued on next page)

... (continued from last page) "Her complexion clear. Contour comparatively congruous. Conduct commendable constantly correct."

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