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Arabella Seymour Music Manuscript

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Title	Arabella Seymour Music Manuscript
Subject	Arts and Entertainment Ohio Women Education Music
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Pepper Pike (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	This handwritten manuscript dating from the 1830s includes Arabella Seymour's transcriptions of English ballads for the piano, musical scores for classical selections, and vocal arrangements for groups and a cappella choir. This selection is of a song called "Isle of Beauty-Fare Three Well." The complete manuscript is fifty pages and measures 10.5" x 13" (26.67 cm x 33 cm). Born in 1816 into a family of wealth and privilege, Arabella Seymour was the eldest child of Thomas and Arabella Stone Seymour of Thames, Oxfordshire, England. She was privately tutored until the age of sixteen and then went to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, to continue her studies at the Ursuline Convent. While there, she developed an extraordinary talent for art and music and converted to Catholicism. With the approval and financial support provided by her family, Arabella opened a seminary for young women in Lille, France in 1837. She left the school and at the urging of Amadeus Rappe, the bishop of Cleveland and coincidentally Seymour's godfather, Arabella joined the group of Ursulines traveling to Ohio. In October 1850, she formally entered the community, took the name of Sister Mary St. Austin and in December 1852 became the first Ursuline nun professed on the Western Reserve.
Creator	Seymour, Arabella
Date of Original	1830s circa
Collection	Ursuline Academy/Ursuline College http://www.ursuline.edu/library/index.htm (for more information on Ursuline College Library)
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts)
Submitting Institution	Ursuline College
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om979_978122_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om979_978122_001.tif
Image Height	2553
Image Width	2002
File Size	1464.53 KB
Full Text	Isle of beauty fare thee well. Shades of ev'ning close not o'er us Leave our lone ly bark a while Morn a- las! Will not restore us, yonder dim and distant isle. still my fancy

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