Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16786, Mary Ann Heston album, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Caroliniana Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 15 May 2022.

Content Description

This collection contains the autograph album of Mary Ann Heston of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The manuscript title page reads "Mary Ann Heston's Album" and contains twenty-three pages of calligraphically rendered manuscript poetry dedicated to Mary from her friends and family, together with three laid-in leaves of manuscript poetry. There are not many locations identified with the entries. One gives a location of Pineville, [Pennsylvania], and another is dated at "Warner's Point Academy."

Census records indicate Heston and her family lived in Buckingham, Pennsylvania.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia)
• Friendship booklets
• Women -- United States