Autograph Manuscript, signed “Rose Hartwick Thorpe” , two stanzas from “Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight”

by Rose H. Thorpe

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

24 lines, fair copy, in ink, on single folded sheet. 1 vols. 8vo. Accompanied by a 2 pp. ALS from Thorpe, conveying the ms in response to the recipient’s request. Both in fine condition. Item #256129 Two stanzas from the immensely popular popular song, in its day, about a young girl during the Protectorate who saves the life of her Cavalier lover from a sentence of death She has reached the topmost ladder, o'er her hangs the great

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