Autograph Manuscript, signed, fair copy, of the Poem Cradle-Song

by Thomas Dunn English

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

3 stanzas with a 5 line refrain to each quatrain of verse. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. Some soiling. Item #249263 Thomas Dunn English 1819-1902 was a proilific author of poems, ballads, and novels; he also server two terms in the U.S. Congrress as a Representative from New Jersey; but his fame as a writer rests on the ballad in wrote in 1843, “Ben Bolt.” English is also remembered as the bitter foe of his former friend,

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