America the beautiful.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929, author.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929. America the beautiful.

Bates, Katharine Lee.

Patriotic poetry, American--19th century.

Patriotic poetry, American.

Hymns, English--United States.

Hymns, English.

United States--Poetry.

United States.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Bond, Donald Frederic, 1898-1987 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4] pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

[Wellesley, Mass.] : [publisher not identified], [1918]

Notes:

Caption title.

Place of publication from Schimmel.

Text of the poem on page [1], with a history of the poem on pages [2-4]. Text signed at end: Katharine Lee Bates. April 6, 1918.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author at foot of page [1].

Schimmel Collection copy has laid in mailing envelope addressed in typescript to "D.F. Bond 29 Hitchcock Hall University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois." (that is, Donald Frederic Bond, 1898-1987, then a University of Chicago student) with cancelled ("WELLESLEY OCT 7 1-PM 1919 MASS.") 2-cent stamp affixed to top right corner of face and 2 manuscript notes ("Katharine L Bates" in pencil and "Katherine Lee Bates" in blue ink) in top left corner of face.

Schimmel Collection copy has laid in pages 3-4 from bookseller Catherine Barnes' catalog with description of this item on page 4; 1 page of typescript and manuscript notes concerning this item on blank verso of minutes of the East Lyon Farm Condominium and Tax District annual meeting of 22 June 1996; and pages 307-308 of a Heritage Auctions catalog for session 2, auction #629, 13 October 2006, with facsimile of Katharine Lee Bates's autograph on page 308.

Cited in:

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I’ll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 88

OCLC:

460678345