SIGOURNEY LYDIA H Autograph Poem Signed LHS entitled Fourth

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SIGOURNEY, LYDIA H. Autograph Poem Signed, "L.H.S.," entitled "Fourth of July," five stanzas beginning, "Wild was the battle strife / And loud the threat of foes." A previous owner has written a note, verso at bottom edge: "[G]iven to me by Mrs. Louisa C[aroline] Tuthill. / If I remember rightly the verses were written for a Fourth of / July Celebration in New Haven Conn. Louisa B. Gaston." 1 1/2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; calling card of T.J. Dunbar pasted to verso, few short closed tears at folds, faint scattered soiling to verso. Np, circa 1848

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Apparently unrelated to Sigourney's anti-slavery-themed poem, "Fourth of July," published by Leavitt and Alden in 1845 with music by George W. Clark.