Moxon, Emma Isola, 1809-1891, compiler. Autograph album: Guide.

Houghton Library, Harvard College Library

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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Call No.: MS Eng 601.66
Creator: Moxon, Emma Isola, 1809-1891, compiler.
Title: Autograph album,
Date(s): 1817-1873 and undated.
Quantity: 1 v. (.1 linear ft.)
Abstract: Poems addressed to and compiled into an album by Emma Isola Moxon.

Provenance:

Bookplate of John A. Spoor.

Acquisition Information:

Gift of A. A. Houghton, Jr.; received: 1941 Dec.

Historical Note

Emma Isola, the orphan daughter of Charles Isola, was "adopted" by the poet and essayist Charles Lamb and his sister Mary. In 1833, she married the publisher Edward Moxon, who published some of Lamb's works.

Scope and Content

Autograph manuscript poems and sonnets, frequently addressed to or dedicated to Emma Isola Moxon, written by Charles Lamb, John Keats, Robert Southey, Samuel Rogers, Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Frederick Locker-Lampson, and others, as well as letters from Samuel Rogers to Edward Moxon, mounted onto the pages of a green morocco album. Also includes several clippings and one engraved portrait of Charles and Mary Lamb.

Container List

(1) Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. "What is an album?" n.d. Autograph manuscript poem, 26 lines; signed: C. Lamb. [1] p. Mounted.

(2) Pulham, Brook. [Portrait, full-length, of Charles Lamb. ] Tipped in.
Scratched on copper from life in 1825 by his friend Brook Pulham.

Inscribed: For Mrs. Moxon from Mr. Corde (?).

(3) Dyer, George, 1755-1834. [Poem on Emma Isola's grandfather.] Autograph manuscript, 15 lines. n.d.; signed: George Dyer. [2] p. Mounted.
With short prose note to Miss Isola at head.

(4) [Procter, Bryan Waller], 1787-1874. "To the spirit of Italy." Autograph manuscript, 15 lines. n.d.; signed: B. Cornwall. [1] p. Mounted.

(5) Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864. "To Emma Isola." Autograph manuscript poem, 3 x 4 lines, n.d.; signed: Walter Savage Landor. [1] p.
On verso: "Written at Wastwater", autograph manuscript poem, 2 x 4 lines; and "For Miss Wordsworth", autograph manuscript poem, 2 x 4 lines. [1] p. Tipped in.

(6) Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849. "To Emma". Autograph manuscript poem, 2 x 6 lines; signed: Bernard Barton, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 8th mo. 24th. 1827. [1] p. Mounted.
At the foot is an autograph note by Charles Lamb (signed: C. L.)

(7) Dibdin, J. B. "The muse's soliloquy on being invited to appear in 'Emma's Album'". Autograph manuscript poem, 7 x 4 lines; signed: J. B. Dibdin, 11 Sept. 1827. [1] p. Mounted.

(8) Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1835. "An album's like the dream of Hope." "Autograph manuscript poem, 16 + 13 + 4 lines, n.d.; signed: C. Dibdin. [1] p. Mounted.

(9) Darley, George, 1795-1846. "Apology." Autograph manuscript sonnet; signed: George Darley, April 11, 1828. [1] p. Mounted.

(10) Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. "To Emma, on her twenty first birthday." Autograph manuscript poem, 32 lines; signed: C. L., 25th May 1830. [1] p. Mounted.

(11) Keats, John 1795-1821. "To my Brothers." Removed for the Keats Collection, Dec. 1941. See MS Keats 3.10 (4).

(12) Betham, Mary Matilda, 1776-1852. "In memory of Mr. Agostino Isola, of Cambridge, who died on the 5th of June 1797." Autograph manuscript poem, 14 + 14 + 11 + 6 + 4 lines; signed at end: Matilda Betham, copied 19th June 1833. [2] leaves. Mounted.

(13) Hood, Thomas, 1779-1845. [Dreams.] Autograph manuscript short prose passage. n.d.; signed: Thomas Hood. [1] p. Mounted.

(14) Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842. "The pirate's song." Autograph manuscript poem, 4 x 4 lines. n.d.; signed: Allan Cunningham. [1] p. Mounted.

(15) Cary, Henry Francis, 1772-1844. "On receiving Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum lent to Charles Lamb the week before his death, and return'd by him, when he was dying, with the leaf folded down at the account of Sir Philip Sydney." Autograph manuscript poem, 2 x 4 lines. n.d.; signed: H. F. Cary. [2] p. Tipped in.

(16) Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844. "Victoria's sceptre oer the waves."' Autograph manuscript poem, 2 x 4 lines. n.d.; signed: T. C. Tipped in.

(17) Piozzi, Mrs. Hester Lynch (Salusbury) Thrale, 1741-1821. [Three short quotations, including two from Byron, in her handwriting.] With the subscription: Yours ever most faithfully, H: L: Piozzi, Bath, 30: June 1817. Four separate slips mounted on one leaf.
At head of leaf (in Mrs. Moxon's hand?): Handwriting of Mrs. Piozzi, in her seventy eighth year.

(18) Southey, Robert, 1774-1843. "The name that may be seen with pleasure here." Autograph manuscript poem, 8 lines, 1837. [1] p. Written in.
At head: Robert Southey, London. 18 Feby. 1837, Anno aet. 63.

(19) Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855. A. L.s. (Saml Rogers) to Ed[ward] Moxon; [London], 1 Jan 1829. [1] p. (one fold) Tipped in.
Addressed on p. [4].

(20) Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855. "My last. Autograph manuscript poem, 15 lines; signed: Samuel Rogers, St. James's Place, Mar. 9, 1837. [1] p. Written in.

(21) Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855. A.L.s. (Saml Rogers) to [Edward Moxon?]; Brighton, 21 Dec. 1832. [2] p. Tipped in.
Date revised in ms. to 1833.

(22) Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859. "Apollo's autograph. Fragment respecting young ladies & albums ..." Autograph manuscript verses, 6 lines. n.d.; signed: From an unpublished poem called The Feast of the Violets. Leigh Hunt. [1] p.Written in.

(23) Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. [Photograph of Alfred Lord Tennyson.] n.d. Tipped in.

(24) Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. "When Lazarus left his Charnel-cave." Autograph manuscript poem, 4 x 4 lines. n.d.; signed: Alfred Tennyson. [1] p. Written in.

(25) Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. "She dwelt among the untrodden ways." Autograph manuscript poem, 3 x 4 lines; signed: Wm Wordsworth, London, 18 Mar. 1837. [1] p. Written in.

(26) Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. "Song [' Up: quit thy bower, late wears the hour']." Autograph manuscript poem, 3 x 6 lines. n.d.; signed: Joanna Baillie. [1] p. Tipped in.

(27) [Hogg, James ], 1770-1835. "I'm a' gaen wrang. A song by the Ettrick Shepherd." Autograph manuscript poem, 5 x 8 lines. n.d. [2] p. Tipped in.

(28a) [Moore, Thomas], 1779-1852. "The world was hush'd -- the moon above." Autograph manuscript poem, 2 x 8 lines. n.d. [1] p. Mounted.

(28b) [Moore, Thomas ], 1779-1852. A.N.s. (Thomas Moore) to [Edward] Moxon; [n.p.], 13 June 1844. [1] p. Mounted.

(29) Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858. "Walton! when weary of the world I turn." Autograph manuscript sonnet. n.d.; signed: Edward Moxon. [1] p. Mounted.
At head: Emma Isola.

(30) Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895. "Oh for the poet-voice that swells." Autograph manuscript poem, 4 lines; signed: Frederick Locker, July 1873. [1] p. Written in.

(31) Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. "By Enfield lanes, and Winchmore's verdant hill." Autograph manuscript sonnet, n.d.; signed: Chs. Lamb. [1] p. Tipped in.

(32a) Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. [Clipping, headed: "Miss Kelley. To the editor."] Mounted.
A letter from Lamb about a sonnet of his which had appeared in the last number.

(32b) Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858. [Clipping, headed: "For the Table Book. Sonnet to T. Hood, Esq. written after reading his ' Plea of the midsummr fairies'."] Mounted.

(33) Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon, 1795-1854. A.L.s. (T. N. Talfourd) to [Edward Moxon]; [London], 24 Apr. 1833. [1] p. Mounted.

(34) Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. "Blessings be with them and enduring praise." Autograph manuscrit poem, 4 lines; signed: Wm Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, New lYear's day, 1838. Written at the request of Edward Moxon, by his sincere Friend. W. W. [1] p. (one fold). Mounted.

(35) [Engraved portrait of Charles and Mary Lamb, with facsimiles of their signatures.] Laid in.

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