New York (State) poems, circa 1810s | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Many of the pages are loose within the volume and the volume shows evidence of several conflicting pagination schemes.

This volume (126 pages) includes poems on a variety of topics, including death and dying, friendship, and nature. Internal evidence indicates that the poems were written in New York in the early 19^th century.

Several of the volume's poems are signed "B.P.," "Laura," or "C".

Evidence suggests that the author(s) of these poems lived in north-central New York during the early 19^th century. The author refers to towns such as Bloomfield and New Lebanon and mentions people who lived in the area at the time. References to events occurring in 1810 and 1812 indicate, along with the author's penmanship and the volume's physical properties, that the volume was written in or shortly after the 1810s.

Author: Emily Minehart