(NEW HAMPSHIRE) The Parting and Meeting of the Three Friends

Sale 2517 - Lot 159

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(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) The Parting and Meeting of the Three Friends. Letterpress broadside on silk, 9 3/4 x 9 inches, moderate wear and soiling, a few small holes. Np, circa 1840s?

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This song was published in several different forms, often under the title of "When Shall We Three Meet Again?" It was generally credited to a group of 3 American Indian friends at Dartmouth College who sang the song under an old pine tree which dominated the campus. The first appearance we trace is in an 1827 book, "The Muse: Or, Flowers of Poetry." During the 19th century, it approached the status of an official Dartmouth song. See Hill, "The College on the Hill, a Dartmouth Chronicle," pages 237-9. We trace no other appearance in this form, or with this title. Here, the usual story of the three Indians at Dartmouth is omitted, and the song is credited simply to "a Casmerean Indian."