Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Levering, R. E. H.
2. Innes & Sons, publisher.

Description

1. 48 p; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. Blake, Margaret Jane, 1811-1880
2. African Americans > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography
3. Free African Americans > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography

Genre/Form

1. Acrostics.
2. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Contents

1. Preface -- Margaret Jane Blake. A memoir / by Sarah R. Levering -- Morning prayer -- Happiness -- Aurora borealis of April 15, 1869 -- "This do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me" -- A happy life -- The unwelcome guest -- Impromptu -- The bride -- Song / by R.E.H. Levering, Lancaster, Ohio -- Acrostic / by Originaliad (exhibiting the name of a little girl twelve years old) -- Lines on Miss. C., of Baltimore / by R.E.H. Levering, Lancaster, Ohio -- The butterfly -- "Little children, love one another" --

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92 (Blake) L (Levering, S. R. Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake)

Note

1. "Copyright, 1897 by Sarah R. Levering."--verso of title page.
2. Imprint from verso of title page.
3. "Margaret Jane Blake. A memoir."--p. 7-21.
4. The subject of this memoir was a slave in Baltimore, but was freed before the Civil War.
5. "Acrostic", p. 41, spells out the name Sarah Rebecca Levering.

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in ink on front pastedown "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Levering, Sarah R., 1825-

Title

1. Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake of Baltimore, Md. : and selections in prose and verse / by Sarah R. Levering.

Imprint

1. Philadelphia : Press of Innes & Son, 200 South 10th Street, [1897]

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-(Blake) L (copy 2) (accession no. B594124) inscribed: in ink on front pastedown "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local note

1. Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the electronic resource.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections Material
2. Full text available via HathiTrust

Added author

1. Levering, R. E. H.
2. Innes & Sons, publisher.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92 (Blake) L (Levering, S. R. Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake)
2. NBY (Levering, S. R. Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake)