Conditions Governing Access

This collection is minimally processed and open for research.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16511, Frances Eleanor Poole commonplace book, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a purchase from Black Swan Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on October 1, 2019.

Biographical / Historical

Frances Eleanor "Fanny" Poole was born on March 30, 1840 to her parents, Frederick Sprigg Poole [1809-1888] and Mary Tillard Douglas (Willson) Poole [1812-1883] and died in Poolesville, Montgomery County, Maryland, on March 15, 1860.

Her obituary read, "On Sunday morning, the 11th instant, FANNIE, in the 19th year of her age, a lovely and most interesting daughter of Mr. and Mrs. FREDERICK S. POOLE.

Death Announcement Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.), Thursday, March 15, 1860

Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64324218/frances-eleanor-poole

Content Description

This collection contains a commonplace book written in by Frances Eleanor "Fannie" Poole and her classmates at the Frederick Female Seminary in Maryland. The book includes a frontispiece, engraved title page, and additional plates. Poole wrote "this side up," beneath her inscription, but the binding is upside down. Poole died at the age of nineteen in 1860, four years after the last dated entry in the book. The book has heavy foxing on the plates and pages were torn from the book.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia)
• Commonplace books
• Frederick female seminary