Historical information

These are exercise books belong to the first pupil of the then Victorian Deaf and Dumb Institution.

Physical description

A slim soft covered exercise book with brown, red and blue marbelling on cover, red binding over spine within a red hard cover added at a later time. Contains, handwritten in ink, by Lucy Lewis, the first pupil of the Victorian Deaf and Dumb Institution, a series of "essays and poetry" on a variety of topics.

Inscriptions & markings

On hard cover "EXERCISES for COMPOSITION / S.L.A. LEWIS / 1864-1866" Inside of soft cover exercise book "S.L.A. Lewis / 3RD Quarter 1864 / To June 1866". Tag: "RHL / No. 14"