Nancy Cogswell cyphering book
Collection — Box: small col. 50
Identifier: Col-1048
Content Description
A cyphering book kept by Nancy Cogswell, which she titled Nancy Cogswell's Book of Canterbury and dated January 8th, 1821. Topics covered include simple and compound addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, money, weights, and measures. The pages of the cypering book are loose in a paper wrapper, and also include several watercolor drawings, as well as a letter dated May 1st, 1826 written by Amos Cogswell and Laura Adams regarding the death of a man named William.
Dates
- Creation: 1820-1826
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Full Extent
1 Volumes ; 8 x 12.25 in.
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
Many pages loose in wrapper
- Author
- Finding aid written by Carley Altenburger.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Winterthur Library Repository