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Illustrated satirical poem about a man, Poughie, getting knocked over by a woman on the street on New Year's Eve. "She slipped along with the speed of light, / As she gave him a blow with her Bony right, / She never stopped, nor looked around, / Nor seemed to care that she'd knocked him down." Includes pen-and-ink portraits of a man and woman and an illustration of two women attempting to get a donkey to move through the use of a "scrulling brush" and hay fork.

Manuscript copy of poem, "Address to a young lady shortly after her marriage."

Manuscript copy of verses from John Pomfret's (1667-1702) poem, "The Choice."

Handmade valentine of a cut-out paper owl with pencil-drawn details, with the words "Who? Who?" written on its abdomen and "Who Will Be My Valentine?" written across the backs of its wings. Accompanied by two stencils made from newspaper clippings.

Collection of transcribed poems written by various authors and sourced from various materials including magazines and newspapers. Many of the poems are on somber topics, such as “My Sister’s Grave” taken from the Christian Freeman. Titles include “I would not live alway [sic.]” taken from the Boston Weekly Magazine, “Lines for the Album of Miss. B” from the Exeter News Letter; “Home and Its Affections” by Mary, “Lines for a Lady’s Album” from the Factory Girls Garland Publisher at Exeter, and “To the Memory of - - -“ by Thomas H. Lane and taken from the Philadelphia Sat. Courier, among others.