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Edith Smellie collection
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CA RBD MSG 1348
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2 volumes ; 19.5 cm and smaller
1 photograph : sepia ; 16 x 11 cm
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Name of creator
(1866-1936)
Biographical history
Edith Elizabeth Lovett Smellie was born approximately 1866 in Glasgow, Scotland. She was a daughter of William Baillie Smellie and Maria Chipman Lovett. She died 12 December 1936 at her home at Rivers Cliff, a large home originally built by J. W. B. Rivers in Brockville in the 1880s.
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Scope and content
The collection consists of Edith Smellie's diary, a photograph, and notebook "Visiting List." The first section of her diary recounts a trip from Brockville, Ontario, to New York from October 2-10, 1888. She and her companions left Brockville by steamboat and transferred to rail at Morristown. The diary details visiting Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as Macy's and other stores. The final pages of the diary contain calculations and a short list of purchases, including boots, shoes, paints, and collars. A few pages in the diary begin to recount a second trip in 1889, as well as some poems. In addition to the diary is a sepia cabinet portrait by Sheldon & Davis, Kingston. The visiting list contains numbered entries of visitors for 1897, 1898, and 1899. There are also some addresses.
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Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Purchased from Attic Books, October 2023.
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- English
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Also described in the McGill Libraries catalogue.
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Visiting list is an unpaginated notebook with beige cardboard covers, manuscript title, borders, and decorations in pen on front and back covers; yellow cloth spine is partially detached.
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Diary is full bound in red leather with marbled edges, spine worn with damaged paper label on front cover.
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Description contains some information from bookseller's description.