Ells, Jane W. The Pocket Hymn Book for Prayer Meetings, Monthly Consorts, &c., &c. Dayton: Printed, Published, and Sold by B. F. Ells..&c., 1837. [9840]
Worn cloth, front board weakly attached, 7.5 x 6 cm (2 15/16 x 2 1/4 inches), lacks the front free end papers. "Rosa Annie Searer, 1877" in blue ink on front paste-down. 145 [but 154], (6) pp., the last six being an index of first lines. The last page is numbered 145 but should be numbered 154. Text good. Fair. Hardcover.
Relatively scarce with 5 records reported to WorldCat.
144 hymns and 3 doxologies, words only. Selected from many sources, including Watts, Doddridge, Newton, Medley, Fawcett, Cennick, Hart, Steele, &c.
We find in the Missionary Chronicle f(Presbyterian) for 1842 that both Jane W. and B. F. Ells were contributors from the Synod of Cincinnati, Presbytery of Miami, Ohio. In The History of Montgomery County, Ohio (1882), Jane W. Ells was one of the successful petitioners to the state legislature for the founding of the Montgomery County Children's Home in 1844.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.