Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother. Song and Chorus, as Performed

by Ordway's Aeolians, and other popular bands by John P. Ordway

$50 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Boston, MA: E.H. Wade, c1859 . 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 .

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