Manuscripts and Printed Materials, 1841-1954

Schoolwork, scrapbooks, sketches, essays, poetry, printed materials, and ephemera comprise this series. An 1841 school textbook, The Scholar's Companion, belonged to Elizabeth Stabler. Memorabilia glued into and transcriptions of schoolgirl compositions written into a ledger book by Edith F. Brooke Green compose a scrapbook. A folder of the loose, original school essays Edith wrote is placed before the scrapbook; the essays may have originally been interleaved or placed at the front of the ledger. Edith also copied into the scrapbook an account of her trip to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, with side trips to Indianapolis and Niagara Falls.

On January 1, 1894, the Brooke family hosted a reception for Sandy Spring residents who had visited the World's Fair. The group gathered at "Falling Green" to reminisce and to record their memories in a notebook. At the end of the World's Fair commemorative book, there is a list of visitors for Charles H. Brooke's eightieth birthday celebration at "Falling Green" on July 26, 1911.

Around 1885, Mary B. Brooke participated in the common social practice of keeping an autograph book to collect the signatures of friends and family. Handwritten poems in this series reflect the leisure writing of some Brooke family members and relatives.

This series also includes several humorous sketches of Brooke family members made by Benjamin Abraham. A Civil War soldier and family friend, Abraham may have courted Eliza Brooke.

Printed ephemera, including flyers, pamphlets, news clippings, and cards, were separated from diaries and correspondence. Arrangement is alphabetical by document type or title.