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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BEADLE, SAMUEL ALFRED. Lyrics of the Underworld. Frontispiece and 19 additional illustrations, including one that has been tinted, possibly by the author of his son with original typewritten material tipped in and loosely laid in. 150 pages. 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in black on the upper cover; very light wear. Jackson, MS: S.A. Beadle, 1925
a unique copy of a scarce book, with seven poems on 14 typed pages, and a warm presentation to mrs. effie l. cahill. One of the poems, "Lines to Effie Dean Threet," hints at a love affair gone wrong with Mrs. Cahill before she was married. Some of the lines are quite suggestive: "Effie Dean Threet, thou wert to me divine in thy virginity as the rose/, or hyacinth or violet, or those sweet essences of floral glory, fine rare, chaste--etherial (sic) as Fate's design. . . ." Samuel Alfred Beadle, Mississippi's first African-American attorney, was born in Atlanta, GA in 1857. After the War, his family moved to Mississippi, where he studied law, and eventually began his practice. He died in Chicago in 1932. Porter, page 10; French, Fabre and Singh, page 55.
