More Online Examples Of Autograph Book Rhymes

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series on comments about and examples of autograph book verses.

This post presents examples of autograph book verses from websites other than Mudcat folk music forum.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/06/examples-of-autograph-book-rhymes-part.html for Part I of this pancocojams post. That post presents some comments and examples from a mudcat folk music forum discussion thread that I started Sept. 30, 2009.

The content of this post is presented for folkloric and historical purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.

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MORE ONLINE EXAMPLES OF AUTOGRAPH BOOK RHYMES

These examples are selected from other autograph verses that are included in these online sources. These sources are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

ONLINE SOURCE #1
From https://ameshistory.org/content/autograph-book-verses
"AUTOGRAPH BOOK VERSES

Verses Gleaned from 19th Century Autograph Books

Ames History Museum
Ames, Iowa 50010
info@ameshistory.org

When the golden sun is setting
And your mind from care is free
When of others you are thinking
Will you sometimes think of me.

- - -

When the golden sun is setting
And the birds are flitting free
When of dear ones you are thinking
Won't you sometimes think of me.

- - -

Think of me when you are happy
Keep for me one little spot
In the depth of thine affection
Plant a sweet forget me not.

I have your album in which to write
I've turned to a leaf that's pure and white
I dip my pen into the ink
I knit my brow and try to think
I think, I think, I think in vain
At last I think I'll sign my name.

- - -

A line of my writing
Oh! What shall it be,
A token of friendship
from Libbie to thee.

- - -

When you get old and cannot see
Put on your specks and think of me.

- - -

When at home and in the tub
Think of me and give a rub.

Remember me and my gray eyes
When you're at home and making pies.

May your friends be many
And your enemies few
May God be your guide
In what ever you do.
May your virtues ever shine
Like blossoms on a pumpkin vine.

Forget me not, forget me never
Till yonder sun shall set forever.

- - -

I only ask this little spot
In which to write Forget me not.

- - -

Here on this page I claim a spot
To write the word Forget me not.

- - -

I thought, I thought, I thought in vain
At last I thought I'd write my name."

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ONLINE SOURCE #2
From https://ameshistory.org/content/autograph-book-verses-0
"A faithful friend is hard to find
But, when you have one, bear in mind
As I shall, when I think of you
Being a lasting friend, both kind and true.

- - -

When on this page you cast your eye
Recall to mind the days gone by
Forget my faults and drop a tear
And think of me when no more here.

- - -

Mary Hodges is my name
England is my nation.
London is my dwelling place,
Christ is my salvation.

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When in a distant land
This little verse you see
Think of the gentle hand
That penned these lines for thee.

- - -

When you think of me
Please bear in mind
A truer friend
You scarce will find.

- - -

Remember me and bear in mind
A faithful friend is hard to find
And when you find one good and true
Change not the old one for the new.

- - -

Some may wish you happiness
Others wish you wealth
I wish you the best of all
Contentment and health.

- - -

Remember on the river
Remember on the lake
Remember on your wedding day
And give me a piece of your cake.

- - -

Age may mar, or time efface
The lines which kindly here I trace
But years may never take from mind
A friend that's ever true and kind.

- - -

When our life in school shall be at end
Please at times give thought of your true friend.

- - -

These few lines to you are tendered
From your sister sincere and true
Hoping but to be remembered
When I am far away from you.

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ONLINE SOURCE #3
From https://letterpile.com/personal-essays/Wise-Sayings-An-Old-Autograph-Book  "Wise Sayings: An Old Autograph Album" by Bronwen Scott-Branagan, September 27, 2017

..."Recently I came across my Mother's old Autograph Book. I used to have one, too, but I've moved several times and that hasn't turned up yet. However, there were plenty of entries in hers to entertain me as a child and that delight has not diminished.

There's such a range, from the downright sententious, to lovely thoughts about the importance of friendship, to sayings that today we would view as sexist and politically incorrect, to the clever and funny. There are even delightful illustrations. I remember how we, too, if asked to write and entry in a friend's book, would request to take it home so we could find just the right thing to write, or to spend hours over a miniature illustration.

I haven't put them all in, but even so it's turned out quite long, so it's probably best if you just browse a few. They are fun to read.

The First Entry
I remember that in my album, a cheeky friend scrawled,

"By hook or by crook
I'll be first in this book."

Mother wrote her own first entry:

"My album's open, come and see.
 What, won't you waste a line on me?
Write but a thought, a word or two,
hat memory may revert to you."

[…]

Christian And Moral Entries

[…]

This next one must have impressed my Mother as she often quoted it to me.

"I would rather be beaten in the right than succeed in the wrong."

[…]

The hand here is more mature than some of the entries; perhaps it was a teacher.

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it behoves us
To speak the least of any of us."

[…]

The Importance of Friendship

I've seen different versions of this one, but they all mean the same thing:

"True friends, like diamonds,
Are precious and rare;
False ones, like autumn leaves,
Are found everywhere."

[...]

"I wish you happiness and health,
All the wealth you need;
Friends in plenty, tried and true,
What more is there I could wish for you."

[...]

This is in the days when most of the washing was first rubbed or scrubbed on a board, boiled in a copper, transferred to a wooden trough with a copper-stick to be rinsed, 'blued' if it were white, and wound through a mangle (being very careful not to pull off buttons) before being hung out to dry.

"When you are married and at the tub,
Think of me with every rub,
And if the suds be very hot,
Render away and forget-me-not".

[…]

The Humorous Entries

 [...]

"He that sitteth on a pin,
Shall surely rise again
According to the sharpness thereof."

[…]

"There are many things we ought to do:
We ought to sing, we ought to laugh,
We ought to eat, we ought to sleep,
But here we (ought to graph) autograph."

[...]

Beecham's Pills, as you may imagine, were for treating constipation. This little verse is usually written:

"Mary had a little watch,
She swallowed it one day,
And now she takes Beecham's Pills
To pass the time away.

Caption:
If we were to dress ourselves on scientific principles, what would become of man?"

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ONLINE SOURCE #4
From https://wordnymph.com/tag/rhyming-verses-for-autograph-books/ rhyming verses for autograph books, Word Nymph, May 3, 2012 · 7:55 AM
"I’ve hit the mother lode (note, not mother load) of mementos.

My husband has been cleaning out our attic, and my box of collected treasures has emerged from the clutter. I’ve scooped out just the first layer, so let’s call this post the first in a series. There are sure to be more.

In this tranche were all those charms I thought I’d lost, some religious relics, including my First Holy Communion book, an Immaculate Conception medal and an honorable mention certificate from Saint Dominic’s Catholic School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. There were a few old pictures, lots of cards and letters and my photo album from summer semester in Spain.

My favorite relic to be unearthed was an autograph book I got as a souvenir of Disneyland when my father took me there in 1969. I scored no celebrity autographs, unless you count that of the five-year-old daughter of the TV comedy writer with whom we stayed in L.A.

[…]

The other pages hold what we all know as autograph book rhymes. Things like:

Don’t worry if your pay is small, and if your jobs are few.
Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

Remember the girl in the city. Remember the girl in the town.
Remember the girl who ruined your book by writing upside down.

 

See you in the ocean, see you in the sea.
See you in the bathtub. Oops, pardon me.

 

When you’re in heaven and it gets hot,
Pepsi-cola hits the spot.

When you get married and live in a hut,
Send me a picture of your first little nut.

 

When you get married and you have twins
Don’t come to me for safety pins.

 

It tickles me and makes me laugh
To think you want my autograph.

 

Never kiss by the garden gate
Because love is blind but the neighbors ain’t.

 

When I turned 50, my father gave me his mother’s autograph book, which is dated 1927 — 42 years before I had christened mine.

Allow me to share a few ditties from my grandmother’s crackled pages:

 

Lock up thy heart, keep safe the key,
Forget me not, til I do thee.

 

I wish I were a bunny with a little tail of fluff.
I’d climb upon your bureau and be your powder puff.

Some write for money, some write for fame,
But I write for the honor of signing just my name.

 

Down by the river there lies a rock,
And on it is printed, “Forget me not.”

If you get married and live upstairs,
For heaven’s sake, don’t put on airs.”
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Here are two autograph book rhymes that commenters shared:
 

Aunt Patsy

May 3, 2012 at 2:31 pm

Round as a ring that has no end, that is my love for you my friend. I loved reading this blog and I will see you at lunch tomorrow.

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Kathleen

May 3, 2012 at 9:37 pm

From my dad’s leather autograph book…

Y Y U R

Y Y U B

Me thinks U R

Y Y 4 me."

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ONLINE SOURCE #5
From https://libraries.udmercy.edu/find/special_collections/digital/cfa/index.php?field=keyword&term=ABCB& The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
"YOUR HEART IS NOT A PLAYGROUND,
YOUR HEART IS NOT A TOY,
BUT IF YOU WANT IT BROKEN,
JUST GIVE IT TO A BOY.
WANT IT BROKEN, JUST GIVE IT TO A BOY.

Submitter comment: THIS VERSE WAS TAKEN FROM AN AUTOGRAPH BOOK BELONGING TO THE INFORMANT,WHO IS MY MOTHER. THIS SAME VERSE WAS FOUND THREE TIMES IN THE BOOK, SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN A POPULAR VERSE WITH THE EIGHTH GRADE
AT NICHOLS SCHOOL IN DETROIT, JUNE 1944.

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AUTOGRAPH VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE)
I THOUGHT AND THOUGHT, I THOUGHT IN VAIN,
BUT ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS TO SIGN MY NAME.

Submitter comment: THIS ITEM WAS WRITTEN IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF COLETTE'S BY A SCHOOLMATE.

Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR

[…]

Autograph Verse Announcing a signature

Date learned: 10-08-1967

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AUTOGRAPH BOOK (COLLECTOR'S TITLE)

IT TICKLES ME/ IT MAKES ME LAUGH/ TO THINK YOU WANT/ MY AUTOGRAPH

Data entry tech comment: LINES DIVIDED BY KEYPUNCHER

Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR

[…]

Autograph Verse Announcing a signature

Date learned: 09-00-1968

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LOOK NOT (COLLECTOR'S TITLE)

LOOK NOT FOR THE BEAUTY/ NOR WHITENESS OF THE SKIN.
BUT LOOK FOR THE HEART/ THAT IS LOYAL WITHIN.
FOR BEAUTY MAY FADE/ AND SKIN GROW OLD,
BUT THE HEART THAT IS LOYAL,/ WILL NEVER GROW OLD.

Submitter comment: LEARNED IN DETROIT.

Autograph Verse

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AUTOGRAPH BOOK VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE)

YOUR LIFE LIES BEFORE YOU,/ LIKE A BANK OF SNOW,/ BE CAREFUL HOW YOU
TREAD IT,/ FOR EVERY STEP WILL SHOW.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

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Examples Of Autograph Book Rhymes (comments & examples from Mudcat Folk Music Forum)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series on comments about and examples of autograph book verses. 

This post presents some comments and examples from a mudcat folk music forum discussion thread that I started Sept. 30, 2009.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/06/more-online-examples-of-autograph-book.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. That post presents examples of autograph book verses from websites other than Mudcat folk music forum.

The content of this post is presented for folkloric and historical purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.

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COMMENTS AND EXAMPLES

Selected comments from https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=123963 

Pancocojams Editor's Note: I started this discussion thread in 2009. As of June 23, 2022 (the date that this pancocojams post is published) that mudcat discussion thread is still open for additional comments.

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While I was an active member of Mudcat forum, I was the only African American* and one of very few other Persons Of Color (POC) who was a member of that forum. Consequently, it's probable that all Mudcat members (but not all guests) who posted to that forum were White. If I recollect correctly, when I was active on that forum (from August 2009 to Nov. 2014) , one Person of Color who was active on that forum was from China and two POCs were from Australia. A Nigerian man who posted on my then active cocojams.com cultural website joined Mudcat, but only posted there a very short while. To my knowledge, while I was active on that forum, with the above exceptions, all other Mudcat members were White men or White women from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany Australia, New Zealand, and Australia.

*When I was an active member of Mudcat, I received a private message from a member who shared with me that he was Black, but didn't want anyone else on that forum to know that. (His screen name gave no hint about his race and he never posted on any discussion thread about racial issues. Consequently, when I enumerate the number of People of Color who were Mudcat members during the time I was active on that forum, I don't really count that man.

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I made minor changes to my first comment in this pancocojams compilation for clarity's purposes. 

Numbers are added to this pancocojams compilation for referencing purposes only.

Notice that in the 1950s and 1960s (Atlantic City, New Jersey) "autograph books" were called "autograph albums".

1. "While reading several archived Mudcat threads, I found some interesting examples of children's sampler rhymes (rhymes included on children's needlework embroidery).

Those examples prompted memories of children's autograph albums-the rhymes that children either remembered or made up and wrote in their classmate's books designed for that function. I recall when I graduated from high school (in New Jersey in 1965) that my fellow graduates and other students chose not to buy the small books with blank pages that were called “autograph albums” because we considered autograph albums to be kids' stuff. But we still signed our names and sometimes added a rhyme in other graduates' year books.

I recall looking for autograph books a few years ago, as I thought they might be a nice end of year gift for the children my daughter taught who were graduating from elementary school. But the only books that were even somewhat similar were children's diaries (they were the same size as I recall autograph albums to be, and they had blank pages). But I chose not to purchase them because there weren't enough of them for sale. Besides which my daughter told me that children wouldn't know what to do with them, since they didn't know any autograph rhymes, and "kids hadn't done that" even when she graduated from high school in 1991 and undergraduate university in 1995. It struck me then that she was right. I don't recall her having autograph albums. I wondered how that could have escaped me. And now I wonder if children anywhere still remember or make up rhymes that they sign into autograph books.

That said, the purpose of this thread is to share examples of children's autograph album rhymes. This thread also provides opportunities to discuss the custom of signing autograph albums.

I've added the custom of writing epitaphs to this thread because it seems to me that there is a relationship between the custom of children making up or choosing rhymes they have learned for autograph albums and individuals' writing rhymes for their graveyard markers. Consequently, this thread also provides opportunities to share examples of & comments about epitaphs.

This thread also provides opportunities to share examples of sampler rhymes, though I didn't have enough room to add that to this thread's title.

I'll start this thread off by posting some examples of autograph album rhymes that I remember. I'll also post some autograph album rhymes and related sampler rhymes that I found on an archived Mudcat thread."
-Azizi,  30 Sep 09 - 08:27 AM, https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=123963, Autograph Album Rhymes & Epitaphs [hereafter given as "mudcat: autograph album rhymes"

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2. "Here are two examples of autograph rhymes that my mother taught me:

Love many.
Trust few.
And always paddle your own canoe.

**
There are gold ships
And silver ships
But the best ship
Is friendship.

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I got the impression that my mother and her classmates signed autograph books at the end of school throughout their entire school years-including when they or others graduated from high school. But I could be wrong about that."
-Azizi, 30 Sep 09 - 08:35 AM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes

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3. Here's a rhyme that I remember from childhood:

2 good

2 b

4 got 10

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It's interesting that this use of numbers in place of words predates by some years that same use of numbers in internet writing and text messaging."
-Azizi, 30 Sep 09 - 08:45 AM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes

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4. A post written by Malcolm Douglas in this Mudcat thread thread.cfm?threadid=74217&messages=22 "Origins: 'Johnson Johnson is my name' A MYSTERY!" led me to this example of a sampler that was embroidered by a 15 year old English girl in 1799:

"Mary Hornby his my/ Name and england is/ My Nation Eirsby is/ My dwelling place/ and heaven his my/ Expectation AP 19/ age/ 15/ 1799/ finis/ hd work at Spridlington school"

-Mary Hornby, Spridlington School, Eirsby, England, 1799

http://www.antiquesamplers.com/samplers/Hornby.htm
-Azizi, 30 Sep 09 - 09:00 AM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes

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5. "I've learned from reading that "Origins: 'Johnson Johnson is my name'.." thread that there are a number of samplers, epitaphs, as well as songs and rhymes that include that formulaic verse as was found in the teenage girl's sampler that I referenced in my last post.

For example, that verse is found in the notes to "I Am A Little Orphan Girl, a song that is included in the Digital Tradition:

Rodger Lang Strang (1948), 27, as a line game;
continued with a rhyme properly belonging to the class
of book rhymes: When I'm dead and in my grave,/ And all
my bones are rotten,/ This little book shall tell my
name/ When I am quite forgotten./ Jeannie Rodger is my
name;/ Dundee is my nation;/ Heaven is my dwelling-
place/ And holy habitation.
Cf. White Paternoster, etc.; FSJ pt. 22, 86-89.

@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2958

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Also, that formulaic verse is included as part of a long song (which I actually think is a series of children's rhymes) that a New York City boy shared with a Federal Writers Project worker in 1938:

Johnson, Johnson is my name
Brooklyn is my station
Heaven is my resting place
God is my salvation!"

from "Johnny Billy", recited by George [Poohepka?], collected by Fred Romanofsky; http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/DeadEnd.html American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

Thanks in advance for your participation in this thread."
-Azizi, 30 Sep 09 - 09:19 AM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes

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6. "Here's another autograph rhyme that my mother taught me from her childhood or youth:

Don't make love by the garden gate.
Love may be blind
But the neighbors ain't.

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And here's a very common autograph rhyme that I may have learned from my mother or picked up somewhere else along the way:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are You.

[notice that back in the 1950s and 1960s we didn't use letters as substitutes for words in this rhyme. Nowadays, if that rhyme is used at all, a lot of times it's probably written like this:

Roses R red
Violets R blue
Sugar is Sweet
And so are U."
-Azizi, 30 Sep 09 - 1:09 PM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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7. "I found that scribbled inside the binding of one of my mom's text books

She was in school from 1934 - 1946

Love is patient
love is kind
love is gentle
love is blind

Never kiss
by the garden gate
Love may be blind
but the neighbors ain't"
-VirginiaTam, 30 Sep 09 - 02:30 PM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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8. Thanks for sharing those rhymes, Virgina Tam.

I should have mentioned that the years my mother was in school were from the 1930s to the early 1940s.

Also, my mother is (and I am) African American.

My sense is that there were very little racial/ethnic differences in the USA between examples of autograph rhymes."
-Azizi, 30 Sep 09 - 3:28 PM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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9. "I remember the

2 good (or cute or nice)
2 B
4 got 10

I am certain there were more clever little ditties in my school year books, but I can't remember them and I don't have the books anymore."
-VirginiaTam, 30 Sep 09 - 3:45 PM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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10. "A variant from my WWii schooldays [yes I really am that old] —

Roses are red
You are sweet
Sugar is rationed
And so is meat

 

All a bit historical now..."
-MGM·Lion, 01 Oct 09 - 01:10 PM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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11.  "By way of comment on the autograph book practice, my mother (high school class of 1934) had one, with most of the rhymes possibly derivatives from popular songs of the preceding decade or so.

My father (high school class of 1932) didn't have an autograph book, but he did have a mandolin so maybe he played the songs.

At my own junior high final year (1954) a few of the girls circulated autograph books for signings, but almost none of the boys knew (or could make up) anything clever enough to sign in them, so the circulation and signing quickly became a "girl thing" despite a few half-hearted attempts by a very few girls to induce a fewer number of the boys to sign one.

There were isolated "graduation pictures" found in my parents' records, but it appeared that individual pictures were very rare. It was common by then to have a "class picture" taken of each graduating class. Because of the small class sizes, my father's "class picture" included four years from three schools and still only got to about 80 individuals in the photo.

By the mid 1950s, and probably sometime before, it became almost universal for high schools to produce annual year books, with (usually) individual pictures, by class, of all the students. The individual pictures for the graduating class were customarily larger than for following classes in each book. The practice of taking "class pictures" with all members of a class in one picture largely disappeared in schools in my area (class sizes 300 and up to 800+) but may have persisted in smaller schools.

In my class, a small but significant number of the students skipped the earlier yearbooks, but nearly all bought a copy of their Senior yearbook.

The almost universal availability of the year books, that students could pass around to exchange autographs, quite probably was a significant factor in the disappearance of autograph books. The disappearance of rhymes and other "fancies" was concurrent with the appearance of the year books, but whether the cramped space in which one could "sign their picture" was a factor, or whether homilies of the older kind just fell out of fashion would be hard to say.

It might be obvious that "yearbook autographs" would fall within the scope of the present solicitation, but the gleanings from them may be sparse.

John"
-JohnInKansas, 09 Feb 11 - 10:25 PM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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12. "I've just removed my grandmother's autograph book from it's acid-free wrapping.

It is 7x9" covered in paper that looks like leather - 2 corners are torn & show the cotton wool? padding & paper & cardboard underneath. It has Album written across the cover.

The cover is a dull crimson & the end papers are marbled in red & gold.

It was a present from her brother Cecil in 1918 on her 16th birthday. Entries are in elegant copperplate hands.

It was given to my mother in 1937 when she was 12, & I received it when I was 10 in 1962, so it has 3 generations of signatures & verses & some beautiful drawings. As one of the 1943 entries refers to my mother's sister, perhaps she owned it in her time.

Some pages have frames & lines for use, others are blank.

In 1919 one of my grandmothers friends drew the head of a woman wearing a very elegant cap. Another painted a sprig of a delicate white flower.

In 1946 one of my mother's friends contributed pencil drawings of Donald Duck as devil & angel.

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Original entries

from another of my grandmother's older brothers -

Kind words cost Little
But mean much.

another verse from 1918 -

God made man,
His first thought;
God made woman,
His second thought;
As second thoughts are best
Here's to the ladies!!

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Entries by my mother's contemporaries (the writing is not so elegant)

(simple drawing of a thumb tack)

He who sits on this
Shall shurely (sic) rise

(mum's sister, aged 11, 1943)

Good friends are like diamonds
Precious and rare
Bad friends are like Autumn Leaves
Found everywhere (1939)

Ladies afternoon Tea Party

Giggle
Gabble
Gobble
Get (1938)

Mary had a hobbled skirt
tied tightly in
a bow, and Every-
that Mary
went she simply
couldn't go

(1939 but obviously referring to early years - before WWI)

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my contemporaries

Make new friends
But keep the old
New friends are silver
Old friends are gold. (1962)

When God first made the world
He made man the stongest? (sic)
But just to give the girls a chance
He made their tounges the longest (my 8 year old sister)

'tounges' corrected with a 'u' inserted between 'g' & 'e'

 

Down in a valley
Carved on a rock
Are tree (sic) little words   (tree is corrected to three)
forget-me-not (10 year old friend)

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One part of me sez. why was I given this precious book when I was 10, another part is pleased to see names I've almost, or sometimes, totally forgotten!

Sandra"
-Sandra in Sydney, 10 Feb 11 - 03:13 AM,  mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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13. "This thread brings back memories.

 In mine someone stuck a 1d stamp, and wrote across it
By Gum, it's stuck.

Other entries

Make new friends but keep the old
They are silver these are gold

Maureen Brown is your name
England is your nation
Happy may the young man be
Who makes the alteration

After a full back page of 'I'll be last' couplets came

Did you ever discover
I could write on the cover.

Not sure if it was written in my book but my mother had a couple of puzzles. The one already quoted- 2Ys UR, 2YsUB, ICUR, 2Ysfor me. and

If the B mt put :
If the B . putting :
-Mo the caller, 06 Oct 11 - 06:20 AM,  mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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14. "Nobody has so far contributed that classic

[obvious stage-direction implied

When on this page you look,
When on this page you frown,
Remember the friend who spoilt your book
By writing upside-down!

~M~"
-MGM·Lion, 28 Apr 12 - 01:03 AM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes 

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15. "I found this one in a book somewhere.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Remember Grant
Remember Lee
To heck with them
Remember ME!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Grant and Lee being famous war generals."
-GUEST,Spook2012, 30 May 12 - 09:05 PM, mudcat: autograph album rhymes 
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