(NEW YORK LONG ISLAND) Commonplace book kept by Maria Onder

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(NEW YORK--LONG ISLAND.) Commonplace book kept by Maria Onderdonk of Cow Neck. 224 manuscript pages. 4to, original 1/2 calf with gilt name label on front board, moderate wear, rear joint split, and quite worn wrapper with manuscript table of contents; numerous items tipped in, some leaves detached, contents generally well preserved. Vp, 1811-1828, plus a few entries from 1874

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This volume was compiled by Maria Hegeman Onderdonk (1801-1875) of Cow Neck (now Port Washington), Long Island, daughter of a cotton manufacturer. She later married well-known Long Island historian Henry Onderdonk, avoiding a name change. In addition to more than the usual supply of artfully rendered poems and bits of verse from friends and well-wishers, she has transcribed several long letters to and from family members, most written from Cow Neck and neighboring towns such as Hempstead and Jamaica, 1817-26, which fill the last 47 pages of the volume. First of these is a long letter from her future husband Henry written as a Harvard student in 1826.