Friendship album [of Clarissa Deming Perkins?]
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Scope and Contents
Poems and writings handwritten in an album, inscribed on one page, "To Mrs Perkins From her friend Lucy Sheldon."
Dates
- Creation: 1828-1829
Creator
- Perkins, Clarissa Deming, 1795-1837 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection are in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown.
Biographical / Historical
Clarissa Deming Perkins (1795-1837) was the daughter of Julius Deming and Dorothy Champion Deming of Litchfield, Connecticut. She attended the Litchfield Female Academy from 1809 through 1811. On April 20, 1817 she married Charles Perkins, a lawyer from Norwich, CT, and they had seven children. She was described as "devoutly religious" and involved in benevolent work. It was said that she was "devoted to the beauty of good works as the opportunity of their fulfillment came to her. Foreign missions had an especial appeal, and in her parlor always stood the large chest to be filled with garments to be sent to the Hawaiian Islands (Deming-Perkins Family Memorial, Litchfield Historical Society Archives)."
Extent
1 folders
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Poems and writings handwritten in an album, inscribed on one page, "To Mrs Perkins From her friend Lucy Sheldon."
Source of Acquisition
Museum purchase
Physical Description
One handwritten album
Genre / Form
- Title
- Friendship album [of Clarissa Deming Perkins?]
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Leith Johnson
- Date
- 2024 Oct 15
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Litchfield Historical Society Repository
7 South Street
P.O. Box 385
Litchfield CT 06759
860-567-4501
860-567-3565 (Fax)
archivist@litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org