Miriam Jane Hill (1831-1906) was an Orthodox Quaker woman who lived in Richmond and Rush County, Indiana, and was a student at Friends Boarding School in 1850. This commonplace book contains poetry, mainly religious and didactic. Of special interest is “On the Death of Lydia Sanders,” about the murder of a young Quaker woman in Highland County, Ohio, in 1818. Gift of Louis and Mary Ruth (Brown) Jones, 2002.