Keepsake Album kept by Joyce Clopton [Wallace] of Williamsburg(ca. 1856)

• MS 2000.16
• 1 item

Keepsake Album (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., n.d.) blank book containing poetry, a color pencil drawing of a flower and a description of “An Evening at the Raleigh.” Kept while her mother, Maria Gaitskell Foster Clopton, was keeping a school, “The Raleigh Institute,” in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern. Contains poetry, a color pencil drawing of a flower and a description of “An Evening at the Raleigh.” Also contains autographs of students.

Joyce Clopton Wallace was one of the younger of twelve children of John Bacon Clopton and Maria Gaitskell Foster Clopton. She married Charles M. Wallace.

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