LEGENDS
AND
RECOLLECTIONS
OF
MONA

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The Queen's Visit to Guernsey	1
Introduction to Legend I	5
The Spectre Hound	8
Introduction to Legend II	12
The Mermaid's Vow	15
The changing Deep	20
Ballaugh Glen	21
" This is not your rest "	24
The first of May	-
The Cholera; a Tale	26
Easter Monday	32
Song	35
Tradition of the Calf of Man	-
To Poesy	40
On reading a Complaint that we look with indifference on the varying beauty of the skies	41
Written on hearing of the late Revolution in France soon after the death of the Princess Adelaide	43
Beauty	44
Written after reading the account of the late Revolution in France.	46
" Weep not for the Dead "	-
The Island Funeral	47
On seeing a Gleam of Sunshine on the brow of a mountain	49
On the departure of a beloved Sister	50
To an absent Sister on her birthday	-
Addressed to a Friend in trouble	51
Lines	52
On seeing a young Cripple at ******* Church	53
On seeing a Rose-tree stript of its leaves by an autumnal wind	55
God is near	-
The Christian's Hope	58
Written in a Churchyard	59
Light	60
Darkness	61
Spring flowers; to Emma	62
The Sabbath Bells	65
Written on Sunday evening	66
Autumn	68
A Hymn	69
The Infants' Graves	70
Night	71
Spring	-
Song	..2
Stanzas	73
To my absent Mother on her birthday	-
To Louisa	74
Answer to the above	75
" Passing away "	76
A Sister's Love	77
On seeing Fort George, Guernsey, covered with Primroses...	78
Stanzas	.80
On seeing some Ivy torn from the trees ..	83
Hope	-
On seeing a white Rose in bloom in October ..	84
Written in an Album under a bunch of Anemones	85
To Autumn	-
Song	.86
To my Sister, on hearing her remark the beauty of two Roses which bloomed on one stem	-
On the death of a lovely but unfortunate Friend.	87
On reading a Poetical Complaint on the word " Last "	88
Friendship	89
On the Miseries of War	90
To Emma, on her birthday	95
Our Island Home . .. ..	97
On seeing a young Party dancing and singing by moonlight ..	98
To Mrs. Cooper, on being requested by her to write ..	100
Isabel to her blind Sister	-
The blind Girl's reply	102
Stanzas	104
Slander; a Tale	105
On the death of a young Friend ... ..	109
Laura; a Ballad	-
Smiles	111

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It would appear from information supplied by the family that the authoress was Louisa Leman Moses née Stone - wife of Capt. Thomas Moses, 9 Royal Veterans, married at Santon in March 1829 - he was a widower with 6 children (his wife, who died in childbed, was buried along with the child at Douglas St George's in 1826) who had been offered the job of proctor at Bishopscourt Farm by Bishop Ward. However he found himself not cut out for farming and the family emigrated to Canada in November 1831 aboard the ship "William Pitt". They brought along her widowed mother Louisa Leman (Rede) Stone, and her sisters to Canada. Louisa was the daughter of John Stone, Esq., attorney-at-law, from the Leicester area, Thomas Moses was from the Carlisle area - Louisa was thought to be born on the Island but no baptism has been found - she had one child, Leman, baptised in Douglas, along with several more in Canada - She is buried in St. Anne's Cemetery on Campobello Island, New Brunswick. Her mother, Louisa Leman (Rede) Stone, is buried in the St. Andrews Rural Cemetery, New Brunswick.

It is possible that several of the poems were by other members of the family which may explain the absence of the author's name(s) on the titlepage.

Why the book was published in Guernsey is not clear, the family is not known to have had any connection there. Queen Victoria + Prince Albert first visited in August 1846 though it is thought that most of the family were in Canada by this date.

Further research has determined Louisa Leman Moses' maternal grandfather to be Thomas Leman Rede, noted lawyer and author. Her mother's sisters were writers Mary Leman (Rede) Grimstone and Lucy Leman Adey (later Goldie by 2nd marriage). Her mother's brothers were writers Leman Thomas Tertius Rede and Wiliam Thomas Rede. Possibly the family connections enabled the publication of the small book of poetry reflecting events and life on the Isle of Man, Guernsey, and at her home in the West Isles of New Brunswick, Canada.

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