{"product_id":"lynde-sarah-elizabeth-friendship-album-the-floral-album","title":"LYNDE, Sarah E[lizabeth]; [FRIENDSHIP ALBUM.] The Floral Album.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eFrom Massachusetts to Berlin\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLYNDE, Sarah E[lizabeth]; [FRIENDSHIP ALBUM.]\u003c\/strong\u003e The Floral Album. \u003ci\u003eNew York: J.C. Riker\u003c\/i\u003e. 1848–1870.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Contemporary red roan, boards blind-stamped with decorative floral patterns and gilt illustration of a girl with a posy of flowers, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, sky blue endpapers; ff. [40], with five chromolithographic botanical plates including frontispiece with tissue guard, hand-coloured lithographic title, pink silk bookmark with painted flowers loosely inserted, 1 ff. with mounted oval die-cut floral posy in colour; a little wear to extremities, a little sporadic and light foxing throughout; overall very well preserved; 1848 ownership of Sarah E. Lynde, Melrose, M.A. (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e) in black ink to front free endpaper, her black ink stamp to blank recto of frontispiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA charming mid-nineteenth-century friendship album, bringing together verse from numerous contributors, predominantly from Melrose, and the neighbouring areas of Malden and Boston, spanning over two decades and previously owned by Sarah E. Lynde (1830–1906). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening ‘Dedicatory’ by Francis A. Griswold (dated April 1849) establishes the tone of the album, describing it as ‘A repository of gems of … affection’, expressing the hope that friendship can ‘trace many lined lines’. There is also an emphasis on morality and religious devotion: ‘write well, with pious thought, with a holy heart’, a concern that is echoed throughout the volume. The album contains five chromolithographic botanical plates which are incorporated into the contributions. Opposite the depiction of a rose, Lucy A. Woodward addresses her ‘dear friend’, writing, ‘A fair bouquet of flowers I’d cull for thee; | Blue bells, white lilies, roses red’ and ‘Each flower must then a token be, | Reminding my lov’d friend of me’. In another contribution, the page before an illustration of a Campanula, another friend writes of ‘flowers of hope joy and Peace’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere are also contributions from outside Melrose’s geographical vicinity, including contributions from Griggsville, IL (L. Tuller, 26 June 1857), Schenectady, NY (E. Sprague, undated), St Louis, MO (E.A. Emerson, 29 September 1856), Chicago (Hulting, 28 December 1869), and Berlin (Mary E. Halleur, February 1856).\u003c\/strong\u003e Several of these appear to be from friends and acquaintances leaving Massachusetts to live elsewhere. The contribution from St Louis is dedicated ‘to the friend I now bid a farewell’. Mary Halleur’s Berlin contribution was particularly poignant: born Mary Elizabeth Honeybun in 1831, she married Hermann Halleur, the German author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e (1854); her poem repeats the line ‘When shall we two meet again’ and features a tone of despair at being separated (‘Tho’ in distant lands we sigh, parch’d beneath a hostile sky’). The two would evidently not meet again, as Mary Halleur died later that year. There is also an inscription from Benjamin Braman (New York, 1869) – perhaps the 1854 Brown graduate and professor of Latin at the University of Michigan from 1855 to 1856 – as well as contributions from Lynde’s sister and cousin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriendship albums  like this one served as a space for shared quotation  and strengthening relationships. They were particularly popular among schoolgirls and young women and offered an opportunity to practise and display penmanship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: Sarah Elizabeth Lynde (1830–1906) born in Malden to Amos Porter Lynde and Sarah Ann (Sprague) Lynde.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125112\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65052315844985,"sku":"2125112","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125112a.jpg?v=1793380655","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/lynde-sarah-elizabeth-friendship-album-the-floral-album","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}