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Call Number:
MSS 6
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Pease, Emma Gurney, circa 1830–1895
Title(s):
Mathematics exercise book
Date:
1839
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series II: Exercise books
Part of Collection:
3, folder 18
Provenance:
Acquired 2009, Paul Mellon Fund.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Title page is inscribed "Emma Pease, Darlington, 1839" in an elaborate calligraphic hand. Exercises are written in pen and black ink throughout. It contains dozens of mathematical exercises, primarily in practical topics, such as "Addition of Money, Weights, and Measures," "Ale or Beer Measure," "Land Measure." The practical problems may have been meant to give a child a more concrete grasp of the application of mathematics, or perhaps they were meant to prepare a young female student for future management of a household.
Physical Description:
1 v. (132 p.) ; 24 x 19 cm. Bound in quarter red roan and marbled boards.
Genre:
Exercise books, Pictorial works, Specimens. , Botanical illustrations, Children's art, Exercise books (Penmanship), Graphite drawings, Juvenilia, Landscape drawings, Sketchbooks, Travel sketches, and Watercolors (paintings)
Subject Terms:
Art, Amateur
Education
Mathematics
Quakers
Railroads
School notebooks
Study and teaching
Associated Places:
Europe
Great Britain
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
Scotland
Switzerland
Yorkshire (England)
Associated People/Groups:
Gurney, Emma, ca. 1800-1860
Hutton Hall (Guisborough, England)
Pease family
Pease, Edward Lloyd, 1861-1934
Pease, Edward, 1767-1858
Pease, Elizabeth Lucy, 1833-1881
Pease, Emma Gurney, ca. 1830-1895
Pease, Francis Richard, 1844-1865
Pease, Helen Blanche, 1865-1951
Pease, Henry, 1807-1881
Pease, Jane Gurney, 1827-1894
Pease, John Henry, 1836-1854
Pease, Mary Cecelia, 1892-1975
Pease, Mary W.
Pease, Rachel, 1831-1912
Pease, Sarah Charlotte, 1858-1929
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905
Finding Aid Title:
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/23.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3291
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3291?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1