‘O all Pervading Album!': Place and Displacement in Romantic Albums and Album Poetry

Adieu to Albums – for a great while, I said when I came here, and had not been fixed two days but my Landlord’s daughter … requested me to write in her female friend’s, and in her own; if I go to — thou art there also, O all pervading album! All over the Leeward Islands, in Newfoundland, and the Back Settlements, I understand there is no other reading. They haunt me. ¹