Wood, George B. (George Bacon)

Scope and Contents The collection contains a small assortment of George B. Wood's poetry, 1820-1849. Folder 1 contains a fragmentary commonplace book with two lengthy undated poems, one untitled, the other, "The triumph of Morpheus" (pp. 19-30). The volume also contains nine geometrical theorems (pp. 119126) based on Wood's studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1814.Folder 2 contains seven poems on friendship, 1820-1831, originally written in albums of several individuals; Wood's...