Home Sweet Home An Original Holograph Copy Of The Poem And Ballad Signed By The Author And Inscribed

by John Howard Payne Author American Actor And Diplomat Poet

$12,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Signed

Accompanied by five autograph letters from Payne to Zantzinger, signed 27 October 1849 – 4 May 1851. Washington, DC, 1851. The poem is written on a sheet of stationery, 8 x 6 1/2 inches embossed at the edges, and mounted on a larger sheet 9 x 8 3/4 inches ; a small newspaper clipping accompanies the poem and notes that this particular copy was loaned by Mrs. Zantzinger to the Smithsonian Institution to be exhibited at the National Museum. The accompanying letters 12mo and 8vo, nine

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