Pages 40 through 49
Page 40: This page features a large black and white illustration showing a young boy helping a young girl retrieve her hat from a body of water. Aside from the illustration, there are two rather short poems and a collection of aphorisms.
Page 41: This page has an article describing the letters of Old James Howell, an English epistolary writer. There are also several poems, at least one of which appears to have been published in a local Raleigh newspaper.
Page 42: The illustration on this page depicts two women, one of whom appears to be working and one of whom is reading. This scene is one that would have been pretty common in the Person household, as the women in the family were all highly educated (for the time) and would spend most of their days working around the house.
Page 43: This page is one of the few early on in the scrapbook that has more illustrations than text. The entire theme of the page is centered around an old farm; the farm is possibly a reference to the farm that Prudence's father, Thomas, owned and worked on for years, though the family relocated before Prudence was born.
Page 44: Page 44 is another fairly typical page in Prudence's scrapbook, with a large illustration depicting two children in church, three poems, and a few short bits of advice.
Page 45: This page marks another early occasion where Prudence included flowers in her scrapbook. Later on in the scrapbook, there are entire pages solely devoted to colorful cutouts of flowers. There is also a poem and illustration regarding a battlefield and a cross, both of which could be referring to Prudence's two brothers that died in the Civil War.
Page 46: This page once again features a large illustration depicting home life surrounded by a short article/story and poem.
Page 47: Page 47 is the first of many pages in the middle and end of Prudence's scrapbook. These Victorian-style flower cutouts vary widely in size, shape, and color. It is also interesting to note how the spatial organization of the pages in the scrapbook has changed from very tightly packed articles, poems, and illustrations early on in the scrapbook to the use of an entire page for a single flower cutout.
Page 48: Like that on the previous page, there is also a large flower cutout on this page as well.
Page 49: This page is devoted to the Louisburg Female College, which Prudence most of her sisters attended. The article was written for the occasion of the graduation of Prudence's class, which the image may depict (though there is no caption corresponding with the image).
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