Theodosia Garrow manuscript

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16426, Theodosia Garrow manuscript, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
0.03 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

MSS 16426, Theodosia Garrow manuscript, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The Theodosia Garrow manuscript ( 1840s; 0.03 cubic feet) documents Garrow's poem titled "The Doom of Cheynholme". The manuscript consists of 24 pages: 6 gatherings of 4 pages each, tipped to stubs of paper.

Biographical / historical:

Theodosia Garrow (1816-1865) was born on 28 November 1816 to singer Theodosia Fisher (circa 1769-1849) and East India Company official Joseph Garrow (1789-1857). Garrow grew up in Torquay, England and made her published debut as a poet in 1839. Garrow met and married Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892) in Florence, Italy on 3 April 1848. Garrow died in Florence on 13 April 1865.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Acquisition information:
Accession 2019-0168 Purchased, 20 February 2019; Robert and Virginia Tunstall Trust Fund, 2018/2019.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Manuscripts (documents)