Autograph albums

This collection contains an album of verse, inscribed by various hands, to Theodosia Barriere.

This collection contains 3 volumes of materials related to the Cannon and Shipp families, circa 1823-1865.

This collection contains an autograph book belonging to Kate Berry, circa 1876-1878.

The album contains 258 pages, including 76 poems and drawings, mostly by Baltimore friends of Lucy Holmes, contributed 1826-1848. A poem on p.55, headed, `Original' (but later known under the title `Alone') is in the hand of Edgar Allan Poe, as is another untitled poem of three stanzas on p.51, by W.H. Poe - copied at his request by E.A. Poe - . Both are believed to have been written circa 1829.

This collection contains one autograph album signed by 1874 graduation class of the Lutherville Female Seminary.

This collection contains an autograph album belonging to Rebecca Dorsey Davis, 1857-1861, entitled "Album of Beauty." The book contains verses and the signatures of Davis' friends and classmates while studying at the Patapsco Female Institute and Ingleside Seminary, circa 1857-1861.

Collection of autographs of prominent Americans, mostly signatures cut out from letters and documents; includes: George E. Badger, William Bainbridge, James Barron, Nahlon Dickerson, Duff, Green, Isaac Hull, Amos Kendell, Hugh S. Legare, Samuel Southard, Roger Brooke Taney, A.P. Upshur, Henry A. Wise, Levy Woodbury, John S. Wool, etc.