Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother. Song and Chorus, as Performed by Ordway's Aeolians, and other popular bands
1859 · Boston, MA
by Ordway, John P.
Boston, MA: E.H. Wade, 1859. One of several editions first published in 1859. 4to. 5 pp. Engraved sheet music, with lyrics. A young man visiting from Maine died in New Orleans during an 1850s outbreak of yellow fever; as they were about to close the stranger's coffin for burial, a local lady said, "Let me kiss him for his mother." At head of wrapper: "To Edward Kelly, Esq." OCLC locates four copies (Alabama, South Florida, Pittsburgh, Brigham Young). Disbound from a volume of sheet music, a little foxed. Printed self-wrappers. (#5508). (Inventory #: 59057)