WITH AN ALS ON WRITING THE POEM SMITH, SAMUEL FRANCIS. Autograph Poem, the complete 5 stanzas of his poem The Fathers Remembered, beginning "How pure in zeal, how firm in faith / Sternly the early patriots stood! / Ready to buy, -- come life or death, / Their freedom at the price of blood." 1 1/4 pages, folded 8vo sheet, with an Autograph Letter Signed to Mayor J. T. C. Hyde sending the poem for the Centennial celebration, written on the conjugate leaf of the poem; usual folds. Windermere, 30 May 1876
WITH AN ALS ON WRITING THE POEM SMITH, SAMUEL FRANCIS. Autograph Poem, the complete 5 stanzas of his poem The Fathers Remembered, beginning "How pure in zeal, how firm in faith / Sternly the early patriots stood! / Ready to buy, -- come life or death, / Their freedom at the price of blood." 1 1/4 pages, folded 8vo sheet, with an Autograph Letter Signed to Mayor J. T. C. Hyde sending the poem for the Centennial celebration, written on the conjugate leaf of the poem; usual folds. Windermere, 30 May 1876
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