1916 · Washington City
by Lincoln, Jeanie Gould
Washington City, 1916. Large 8vo leaf, faint creases from previous folds, else near fine. One of Gould's earliest published poems, first appearing in print in A Chaplet of Leaves (1869) and produced here for the autograph collection of Howes Norris Jr., "Granddaddy of all the autograph fiends". Accompanied by a short autograph letter from Lincoln's secretary (?), apologizing for her delay in responding to Norris's request for an autograph "on account of dangerous illness in her family" (Inventory #: 40814)