Research Catalog

Title

Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 / by Frances Anne Kemble.

Author

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.

Publication

London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, publisher.
• Spottiswoode & Co., printer.

Description

[8], 434 p.; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Alternative Title

Residence on a Georgian plantation

Subjects

• Plantation life > Georgia
• Insertions (Provenance)
• Slavery > Georgia
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Georgia > Social life and customs
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Insertions (Provenance)

Note

• Publisher's advertisement on verso of half-title page.
• "London printed by Spottiswoode and Co. New-Street Square"--printer statement, verso of title page, and also on colophon, p. 434.

Indexed In (note)

• Clark, T.D. Travels in the Old South
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library Catalog

Provenance (note)

• with a slip of paper affixed to recto of second free endleaf, inscribed in ink "Always yours F.A. Kemble." With the bookplate on the front pastedown: "Robert Sedgwick," with an illustrated postcard, "Fanny Kemble Cottage, "The Perch," Lenox, Massachusetts." affixed to recto of first free endleaf, and inscribed in ink "U.S. Postal Card, bought by me at Curtis' Hotel, Lenox, Sepr. 1906. R.S."; inscribed: in pencil of verso of first free endleaf "A.A. Schomburg.", with newspaper clipping affixed to verso of first free endleaf, concerning Kemble's "Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839", and dated in ink by Schomburg "N.Y. Times May 18th 1907"; With the ink stamp "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 975.8-K (Kemble, F. Journal of a residence. 1863)

LCCN

01007671

OCLC

4706728

Author

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.

Title

Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 / by Frances Anne Kemble.

Imprint

London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863.

Indexed In:

Clark, T.D. Travels in the Old South, III:187

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 5514

Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library Catalog, v. 2, p. 655-656

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 975.8-K (copy 2) (accession no. B628582) with a slip of paper affixed to recto of second free endleaf, inscribed in ink "Always yours F.A. Kemble." With the bookplate on the front pastedown: "Robert Sedgwick," with an illustrated postcard, "Fanny Kemble Cottage, "The Perch," Lenox, Massachusetts." affixed to recto of first free endleaf, and inscribed in ink "U.S. Postal Card, bought by me at Curtis' Hotel, Lenox, Sepr. 1906. R.S."; inscribed: in pencil of verso of first free endleaf "A.A. Schomburg.", with newspaper clipping affixed to verso of first free endleaf, concerning Kemble's "Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839", and dated in ink by Schomburg "N.Y. Times May 18th 1907"; With the ink stamp "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy 1 in the Schomburg Center's Jean Blackwell Hutson Research & Reference Division Sc 975.8-K (accession # D128475) is one of the items added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the Collection librarian, and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," the NYPL perforated stamp, early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection, but no ink stamp. Imperfect: water stained, library-bound in black cloth over boards and gilt spine title.

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy in Sc Rare 975.8-K (copy 2) (accession no. B628582) is a specially bound or rebound in full leather or rebacked spine with the original three-quarter leather affixed on the spine shewing, a gilt-decorated spine with five raised bands, crimson and black leather spine Labels, and marbled paper over boards, marbled edges, and endpapers. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," the NYPL perforated stamp, the Star ink stamp, and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection.

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Added Author

Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, publisher.

Spottiswoode & Co., printer.

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893, inscriber.

Sedgwick, Robert, active 1896-1906, former owner, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 975.8-K (Kemble, F. Journal of a residence. 1863)

Sc 975.8 K (Kemble, F. Journal of a residence. 1863)