Garrow, Theodosia, manuscript Theodosia Garrow manuscript MSS 16426

Theodosia Garrow manuscript MSS 16426


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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/

Tanner Greene

Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Identification
MSS 16426
Title
Theodosia Garrow manuscript circa 1840s
URL:
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/785
Quantity
0.03 Cubic Feet, 1 folder
Language
Materials are in English.

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16426, Theodosia Garrow manuscript, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Provenance

Accession 2019-0168 Purchased, 20 February 2019; Robert and Virginia Tunstall Trust Fund, 2018/2019.

Biographical Note

Theodosia Garrow (1816-1865) was born on 28 November 1816 to singer Theodosia Fisher (circa 1769-1849) and East India Company official Joseph Garrow (1789-1857). Garrow grew up in Torquay, England and made her published debut as a poet in 1839. Garrow met and married Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892) in Florence, Italy on 3 April 1848. Garrow died in Florence on 13 April 1865.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Content Description

The Theodosia Garrow manuscript ( 1840s; 0.03 cubic feet) documents Garrow's poem titled "The Doom of Cheynholme". The manuscript consists of 24 pages: 6 gatherings of 4 pages each, tipped to stubs of paper.

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