ECP0917
Lot 70
70: An Autograph Book Containing Numerous Autographs From Ewbank's

Description
A small 8vo in embossed brown calf boards with gilt decoration on front cover of an autograph book resting on a table with quill pen and ink bottle and “Autographs” above. This book has plain unlined pages with title page reading “Bella M. Weld,/from her loving Sister/Sue.” With nice scroll surround. There are 46 autographs in the book. Several with poems, and a few with artwork, including one truly wonderful watercolor painting of a New England homestead with two and a half story stone home with wing, fern covered rock and tree in foreground, picket fence by the dirt road in front and split rail fenced pasture to right of home with trees in background with accompanying poem entitled “Gwynedd”, by William Chapin, dated “Philad. 1861”. William Chapin enlisted with Co. E, 111th Penn. Vol. Infantry and the sad poem of loss he wrote to Bella likely reflected his mood just before joining the Union Army. The 111th fought in many of the more important battles of the war including Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Acquia Creek, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, transferred to the west in Sept. of 63 and fought at Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Dallas, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, and lost 549 men during the war. A list of most of the other names in this album include in order “Susie” likely her sister, “MJ. Carleton, Haverhill, Mass.; Edward Townsend, Tamwith Farm, Montgomery Co., Penn.; George Weld; M. Harlow; Sallie J. McIntire; Howard P. Capp; Ann Bishop Schultz; F.H. Kimball; George Ordway; Abbie A. Ordway; Mary Knowles, Philad.; Mary J. Munroe; Sarah S. Munroe; Abbie F. Crockett; Georgia L. Heath, S. Reading; Fannie Knowles; Emma P. Day; James French; James E. Gale; Wm. M. Hall; W.F. Munson; Mary E. Ordway; Ed L. Johnson, Haverhill, Mass.; Hattie E. Weld, Bradford, Mass.; Mary J. Munroe; Charles Wingate, Haverhill, Mass.; Carrie Clark; Emiline L. Johnson, Muscatine, Iowa; Alice C. Merrill, Danville, Illinois; Wm. Cogswell; Mary E. Woodward; John R. Bartlett, Cambridge, Mass.; Helen M. Archibald, Louisville, Kentucky; Ellen F. Kimball, Bradford, Mass.; Charles E. Ingalls, Cambridgeport, Mass.; G.W. Slatin” and several others. Gwynedd Mercy Academy in Philadelphia, Pa. is still in operation today. It was founded by the Sisters of Mercy as a Girls Catholic school in 1861 and today is a highly respected college preparatory high school for girls. The school has 28 students in 1863 and all of the dates in this book are from 1861 to 1864, except one dated 1866. It likely includes the names of most of the first students of the school.