Recherche dans la collection - Autograph Album, Edythe (Edith) M. Bower, Ivy Cottage [Album 1] [textual record and graphic material]

Album is very fragile and in poor / fair physical condidition. Folio pages are of thin, fragile paper, to which greeting cards have been inserted into paper corner cuts, or have been laid down to paper.

Private source, collected by Kenneth Rowe.

Inscribed in pen and black ink, on fly-leaf, brown paper, inside front cover right side, c.: Edythe M. G[sic]ower / Ivy Cottage / Cobourg [partial underline] ; [in a different hand] in pen and blue ink, on verso right fly-leaf, on white paper, c.: Edith M. Bower / Ivy Cottage [last 2 words have partial underline] / " A white house, half concealed with vines / surrounded by a belt of summer flowers / a shaded porch, where creeping Ivy climbs / and weaves cool shadows for the / Noonday hours - / July 26[th raised and underlined] 1880 - 4.30. P.M. [underlined]; in pen and [faded] blue ink, on flower scrap, fol. 1 recto facing last page: Edith / from / Janie [?]

[Partial transcription; there are many more hand-written entries in album].