Album Dedication

Page, 152 x 203mm (6 x 8in), painted and designed, along with acrostic verse, by William Charles Bird of Plymouth for his album dated August 1876.

• Within this volume you will find,
• Pieces choice and rare;
• Culled from many a clever mind,
• With thoughtfulness and care.
• But each now forms a link,
• In friendships golden chain,
• Review them carefully - & think
• Do they here appear in vain.

The initial letters of some of the lines form the name of the album's owner "W C Bird".