Artist unknown :Lizzie, Sept[ember] 5 1883, Oamaru [Three pages from an autograph album, with pressed ferns, sketches, and two poems, one by William Drummond, 1884].

Title page has the title in gold lettering on silk, stuck to paper with coloured ferns also stuck at the top. Some were previously stuck at the bottom but were missing on arrival. The first opening shows a handwritten poem "Spring", by author William Drummond, copied out by ACB on 1 July 1884 in Oamaru. Second opening shows, a collage of five scraps on the left side, and on the right, a poem entitled "Ferns", copied out by "I.S."?, 25 February 1884. The poem has three pieces of fern still remaining from a previously fuller border.

The William Drummond poem is a lament for a departed woman or girl. It is possible that the album was a memorial album for Lizzie, born 1883, or died 1883 or 1884.

Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) (fragment).

Provenance: Donated by Dunbar Sloane Limited in 2002.