| Contents |
Star Spangled Banner / Frances S. Key -- Address delivered on the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg / Abraham Lincoln -- From Bracebridge Hall / Washington Irving -- From the life of Washington / Washinton Irving -- Army Hymn / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Thy will be done / John G. Whittier -- The heavens seen by the naked eye / Edward Everett -- The sea from "Factitious Life" / Richard H. Dana -- The death of Washington / Caroline M. Kirkland -- To ennui / J. Rodman Drake -- Wit and humor / E. P. Whipple -- Miguella and Juanilla from the Spanish / George Ticknor -- Only a year / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- From "Earth's Holocaust" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Twilight on Sumter / R. H. Stoddard -- From life of Franklin / Jared Sparks -- The salute / George H. Calvert -- The explanation / John G. Saxe -- From "Life and times of Benjamin Franklin" / James Parton -- The snow shower / William Cullen Bryant -- From an address delivered on Boston Common, 27 Augt. 1862 / Robert C. Winthrope -- Hope of fame / James G. Percival -- Fall of the Charter Oak / Lydia H. Sigourney -- A leaf from "Swallow Barn" / John P. Kennedy -- The brothers / Charles Sprague -- Success in life / Georg S. Hillard -- Excelsior / Henry W. Longfellow -- Translation of lines Mde. Chateaubriand upon the interment of the daughter of an old friend / Robert C. Sands -- Public rumor, Rev. Dr. Croswell / Richard H. Dana, Jr. |
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Hark! a bugle's echo comes / Fitz Greene Halleck -- From Medway / C. Brockden Brown -- The flower of liberty / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- God in history, from an address before the New York Historical Society, November 20th 1854 / Georg Bancroft -- The indian summer / Henry T. Tuckerman -- from "Cecil Dreeme" / Theodore Winthrop -- At Richmond / William Allen Butler -- Scott and Shakespeare ' Eliza Leslie -- From "The history of the conquest of Mexico" / William H. Prescott -- Letter to Georg Ficknor / William H. Prescott -- The mariners / Bayard Taylor -- Preface to "My farm of Edgewood / Donald G. Mitchell -- Our country and her flag / Francis Lieber -- A sketch of the Valley of Mexico / Brantz Mayer -- The courtin' / James Russell Lowell -- Watching from "The wide, wide world" / Susan Warner -- Sonnet from "The new life" of Dante / Charles Eliot Norton -- Prue and I / George William Cutis -- Summer friends / Frederick S. Cozzens -- Letter from New York, July 4th 1844 / L. Maria Child -- Letter to Blumenbach / Andrews Norton -- August / Alfred R. Street -- Gerty's prayer, from "The lamplighter" / Maria S. Cummins -- Worship / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The great rising / Arthur Cleveland Coxe -- Social Science / Henry C. Carey -- Sonnet, The sun and the stream / Anna C. L. Botta -- Ready for duty / Anna Warner -- Reply to an invitation to attend a celebration of the birthday of Thomas Paine / Theodore Parker -- The dying alchemist / N. P. Willis -- O golden green! / W. E. Channing, Jr. |
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The homestead / Catherine M. Sedgwick -- The brave at home / T. Buchnanan Read -- How to influence the young / Jacob Abbott -- Home from, "The backwoodsman" / James K. Paulding -- Dirge for a soldier, in memory of Gen'l Philip Kearney / Georg H. Boker -- The star of love / George P. Morris -- Letter to Thomas Sully / John J. Audubon -- Rosalie / Washington Allston -- Stanzas written to a friend in despondency / W. Gilmore Simms -- Our orders / Julia Ward Howe -- National hymn / John Pierpont -- The wants of man / John Quincy Adams -- Rupert and Madelon / Edgar A. Poe -- From, "Armand; or the peer and the peasant / Anna Cora Ritchie -- Ode to America / George W. Bethune -- From a discourse preached at Federal Street Church Boston, 1831 / William Ellery Channing -- Notes for a speech at the dinner to Kossuth / Daniel Webster -- Our battle flag, hurrah! / John Neal -- From "Arnold de Winkebried" / Grace Greenwood -- From "The water witch" / James Fenimore Cooper -- Lines written in her bother's journal / Margaret Fuller Ossoli -- Letter to Wm. Armory Esp. upon the death of Mr. Prescott / J. Lothrop Motley -- Inscription to the dead at Fredericksburg / Herman Melville -- The indian's bride / Edward Coote Pinkney -- Extract from "Captain Brand" / Henry A. Wise -- Life / H. D. Thoreau -- A life on the ocean wave / Epes Sargent -- A life of lettered ease / Park Benjamin -- Hymn from "Bitter sweet" / J. G. Holland -- A beautiful girl at prayer / N. P. Willis -- Hymn composed at Gettysburg for the concecration Nov. 19, 1863 / B. B. French -- Home! Sweet home! / John Howard Payne. |
| Abstract |
Alexander Bliss and John Kennedy created Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors as a fundraiser for the aid of soldiers and their families. Includes the first facsimile of the handwritten Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg. Facsimiles of works by other important 19th Century authors include: Francis Scott Key, Edward Everett, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Audubon, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and others. |
| General note | Preface signed: John P. Kennedy [and] Alexander Bliss. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Dean Van Clay 10-4-22 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Autograph leaves of our country's authors. Baltimore : Cushings & Bailey, 1864. (Baltimore : A. Hoen & Co., lithographers) |
| Genre/form | Facsimiles. |
| Genre/form | Facsimiles. |
| LCCN | 52053037 |
