[Booklet]: Prospect Hill Memory-Book (1895). [Cover title: P. H. S. Memory-Book 1895]. [Together with]: Prospect Hill Christmas 1887

(NEWCOMB, Marian, Allie Leonard, Ida F. Foster)

Published by [Prospect Hill School] / (Press of E. A. Hall & Co.), (Greenfield, Mass.), 1895

About this Item

First edition. Octavo. 17pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Light wear and soiling to extremities of covers, few short tears on spine; a very good or better copy. Text includes poems by students, including "Song for the Reunion in '95" by Laura A. Jones, "School Alphabet" (an acrostic poem) by M. N., "A Household Angel" by R. M., etc., a brief narrative "History of '95," various reminiscences by students (including "By the Experimental Method" about the science laboratory), riddles, jokes, etc. Last four pages print "Prospect Hill Directory, from the re-opening of the school in 1880," listing a year-by-year (1880-1894), alphabetical listing of students (and their home towns). Introductory text notes: "To Dr. Moors the school mainly owes its existence. Established at his suggestion… [and] maintained in large measure by his labors and contributions. Year after year as each new group of girls gathered at the school." Unrecorded by *OCLC*, which does note three other publications from the school, including a reunion book (1887), an issue of the school newspaper (1897), and promotional booklet (circa 1890's?). [With]: Manuscript Christmas poem: *Prospect Hill Christmas 1887* (small nick at one corner, with tanning to the paper, else very good. The eight-line manuscript poem, prepared as a Christmas greeting entitled: "Prospect Hill Christmas 1887" in gold ink holograph, in an unknown hand. Single sheet of stiff white cardstock (with scalloped edges), square 48mo (measuring circa 5 1/4 inches by 5 3/16 inches), in black ink holograph, with title and initials in gold ink, illustrated with an original albumen print photograph (slightly trimmed and affixed to upper left corner, measuring circa 3 1/4 by 2 1/8 inches), depicting a Prospect Hill School building (a larger version of the same image is reproduced on the rear cover of the 'MEMORY BOOK'). The poem begins: "Would you were here tonight / Friend and companion dear! / By the home hearthstone bright, / So much to say and hear…" Prospect Hill School was founded in 1869, by Reverend John Farwell Moors, a Unitarian Bishop. It was one of five girls' schools that merged over time, to become the Stoneleigh-Burnham School for Girls, along with The Classical School for Girls (started on the campus of Smith College, later named the Mary A. Burnham School), the Elmhurst School, Stoneleigh School for Girls, and the Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School. For the two (2) items related to the Prospect Hill School.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Booklet]: Prospect Hill Memory-Book (1895). [Cover title: P. H. S. Memory-Book 1895]. [Together with]: Prospect Hill Christmas 1887
• Publisher: [Prospect Hill School] / (Press of E. A. Hall & Co.), (Greenfield, Mass.)
• Publication Date: 1895
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Ephemera
  • Poetry