Autograph leaves of our country's authors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870, compiler.

Contributor:

Bliss, Alexander, 1827-1896, compiler.

Cushings & Bailey, publisher.

A. Hoen & Co., lithographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--Autographs--Facsimiles.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--19th century--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.

American literature--19th century--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.

American literature.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literary collections.

United States.

Autographs--Facsimiles.

Autographs.

Genre:

facsimiles (reproductions)

Autographs

Facsimiles

History

Literary collections

Manuscripts

Facsimiles.

Physical Description:

xi, [1], 200 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

Baltimore : A. Hoen & Co., Lithographers

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Cushings & Bailey, 1864.

Summary:

Alexander Bliss and John Kennedy created Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors as a fundraiser for the aid of soldiers and their families. Writings include primarily short prose pieces, fragments of longer prose writing, and poetry. Includes the first facsimile of the handwritten Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg. Also includes facsimiles of works by other important 19th century authors, such as Francis Scott Key, Edward Everett, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Audubon, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and others.

Contents:

Star Spangled Banner / Frances S. Key

Address delivered on the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg / Abraham Lincoln

From Bracebridge Hall / Washington Irving

From the life of Washington / Washinton Irving

Army Hymn / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thy will be done / John G. Whittier

The heavens seen by the naked eye / Edward Everett

The sea from "Factitious Life" / Richard H. Dana

The death of Washington / Caroline M. Kirkland

To ennui / J. Rodman Drake

Wit and humor / E. P. Whipple

Miguella and Juanilla from the Spanish / George Ticknor

Only a year / Harriet Beecher Stowe

From "Earth's Holocaust" / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Twilight on Sumter / R. H. Stoddard

From life of Franklin / Jared Sparks

The salute / George H. Calvert

The explanation / John G. Saxe

From "Life and times of Benjamin Franklin" / James Parton

The snow shower / William Cullen Bryant

From an address delivered on Boston Common, 27 Augt. 1862 / Robert C. Winthrope

Hope of fame / James G. Percival

Fall of the Charter Oak / Lydia H. Sigourney

A leaf from "Swallow Barn" / John P. Kennedy

The brothers / Charles Sprague

Success in life / Georg S. Hillard

Excelsior / Henry W. Longfellow

Translation of lines M. de. Chateaubriand upon the interment of the daughter of an old friend / Robert C. Sands

Public rumor, Rev. Dr. Croswell / Richard H. Dana, Jr.

Hark! a bugle's echo comes / Fitz Greene Halleck

From Medway / C. Brockden Brown

The flower of liberty / Oliver Wendell Holmes

God in history, from an address before the New York Historical Society, November 20th 1854 / Georg Bancroft

The indian summer / Henry T. Tuckerman

from "Cecil Dreeme" / Theodore Winthrop

At Richmond / William Allen Butler

Scott and Shakespeare ' Eliza Leslie

From "The history of the conquest of Mexico" / William H. Prescott

Letter to Georg Ficknor / William H. Prescott

The mariners / Bayard Taylor

Preface to "My farm of Edgewood / Donald G. Mitchell

Our country and her flag / Francis Lieber

A sketch of the Valley of Mexico / Brantz Mayer

The courtin' / James Russell Lowell

Watching from "The wide, wide world" / Susan Warner

Sonnet from "The new life" of Dante / Charles Eliot Norton

Prue and I / George William Cutis

Summer friends / Frederick S. Cozzens

Letter from New York, July 4th 1844 / L. Maria Child

Letter to Blumenbach / Andrews Norton

August / Alfred R. Street

Gerty's prayer, from "The lamplighter" / Maria S. Cummins

Worship / Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great rising / Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Social Science / Henry C. Carey

Sonnet, The sun and the stream / Anna C. L. Botta

Ready for duty / Anna Warner

Reply to an invitation to attend a celebration of the birthday of Thomas Paine / Theodore Parker

The dying alchemist / N. P. Willis

O golden green! / W. E. Channing, Jr.

The homestead / Catherine M. Sedgwick

The brave at home / T. Buchnanan Read

How to influence the young / Jacob Abbott

Home from, "The backwoodsman" / James K. Paulding

Dirge for a soldier, in memory of Gen'l Philip Kearney / Georg H. Boker

The star of love / George P. Morris

Letter to Thomas Sully / John J. Audubon

Rosalie / Washington Allston

Stanzas written to a friend in despondency / W. Gilmore Simms

Our orders / Julia Ward Howe

National hymn / John Pierpont

The wants of man / John Quincy Adams

Rupert and Madelon / Edgar A. Poe

From, "Armand; or the peer and the peasant / Anna Cora Ritchie

Ode to America / George W. Bethune

From a discourse preached at Federal Street Church Boston, 1831 / William Ellery Channing

Notes for a speech at the dinner to Kossuth / Daniel Webster

Our battle flag, hurrah! / John Neal

From "Arnold de Winkebried" / Grace Greenwood

From "The water witch" / James Fenimore Cooper

Lines written in her brother's journal / Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Letter to Wm. Armory Esp. upon the death of Mr. Prescott / J. Lothrop Motley

Inscription to the dead at Fredericksburg / Herman Melville

The indian's bride / Edward Coote Pinkney

Extract from "Captain Brand" / Henry A. Wise

Life / H. D. Thoreau

A life on the ocean wave / Epes Sargent

A life of lettered ease / Park Benjamin

Hymn from "Bitter sweet" / J. G. Holland

A beautiful girl at prayer / N. P. Willis

Hymn composed at Gettysburg for the concecration Nov. 19, 1863 / B. B. French

Home! Sweet home! / John Howard Payne.

Notes:

Preface signed: John P. Kennedy, Alexander Bliss.

OCLC:

3756709