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Gleanings of quiet hours

Title
Gleanings of quiet hours / by Priscilla Jane Thompson, author of "Ethiope lays"
Author
Thompson, Priscilla Jane.
Publication
  • Rossmoyne, Ohio : Published and sold by the author, [1907]
  • ©1907

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Description
[6], 100 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subjects
Note
  • "Copyrighted, 1907, by Priscilla Jane Thompson."
Additional Formats (note)
  • Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.
Source (note)
  • from Arthur A. Schomburg;
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
Athelstane -- The snow-flakes -- The fugitive -- Just how it happened -- A prayer -- Death and resurrection -- Adieu, adieu, forever -- The husband's return -- While the choir sang -- Uncle Ike's holiday -- A home greeting -- Lines to an old school-house -- The examination -- A Christmas ghost -- A valentine -- A tribute to the bride and groom -- Emancipation -- To a deceased friend. Written in memory of Mrs. Polly Dixon -- An afternoon gossip -- The muse's favor -- The favorite slave's story -- The interrupted reproof -- Freedom at McNealy's -- Adown the heights of ages -- After the quarrel -- Song of the moon -- Insulted -- Soft black eyes -- Raphael -- A domestic storm -- A little wren -- In the valley -- Address to Ethiopia -- Autumn -- Lines to Emma -- Uncle Jimmie's yarn -- Oh, whence comes the gladness? -- A kindly deed -- The old freedman -- The old year.
Call Number
Sc Rare 811-T (Thompson, P. J. Gleanings of quiet hours)
OCLC
  • 12788858
  • NYPGR12788858-B
Author
Thompson, Priscilla Jane.
Title
Gleanings of quiet hours / by Priscilla Jane Thompson, author of "Ethiope lays"
Publisher
Rossmoyne, Ohio : Published and sold by the author, [1907]
Copyright Date
©1907
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Additional Formats
Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 811-T (accession no. B571426) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Source
Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 811-T (Thompson, P. J. Gleanings of quiet hours), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.
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Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 811-T (Thompson, P. J. Gleanings of quiet hours)
NBI (Thompson, P. J. Gleanings of quiet hours)
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