Item 50 - Correspondence of the Doddridge family

1 volume (31 x 25 cm), containing 80 leaves and a number of stubs. Most of the leaves have letters pasted (tipped-in) to them. Folio 45 is a stub with a letter pasted to it. Folios 31–3 and 39 are about a third of the usual width. Folio 81 is loose. Half-bound. The spine is missing and the boards are loose. Tapes are attached to the boards for tying the book shut.

This book was formerly used as an album of some kind. The pictures or photographs have been removed, but the written captions remain. A bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown.

The contents are mainly letters written by members of the Doddridge family.

Foliated 1–81. Folio 45 is a stub with a letter pasted to it; the other stubs are unnumbered.

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For further details see the individual descriptions and the online calendar prepared by Professor Tim Whelan: https://www.nonconformistwomenwriters1650-1850.com/doddridge-family-correspondence/i-correspondence/chronological-calendar

The younger Mercy Doddridge and the two Mary Doddridges have been distinguished respectively as ‘daughter’, ‘daughter’, and ‘cousin’.