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to Nancy E. Jones

He was detailed and had to leave the 79th to work a twelve pound brass cannon in the 20th Ohio Battery. He does not feel in any more danger as "I can dodge a shell or canon ball some times but a musket ball I can not." The battery consists of two...

GLC02739.045

"The night after Christmas"

Printed copy of Archer's parody of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. In Archer's "The Night After Christmas," children all over the town had eaten sweets to such an extent that it made them all sick. Instead of hearing the clattering of hooves...

GLC01896.117

Written the night Maimie went to St. Louis

Poem entitled "Written the night Maimie went to St. Louis." Four stanzas describing how the author [Jeffery] misses Maimie although he only brought her to the train an hour before. He takes comfort in the thought that their love binds them together...

GLC01896.121

to [Aaron Jeffery]

A four stanza poem asking for the return of the poet's beloved. "You ask me what - since we must part you should bring home to me. Bring back a pure and faithful heart As true as mine to thee...My love, bring back to me."

GLC01896.128

Abraham Lincoln [Poem]

Clipping of the poem "Abraham Lincoln."

GLC05603.03.01

Elegy for Sereno Wright

Serano is in heaven/And pain can never reach him there/No sickness comes to those who breathe that pure delightful air.

GLC02751.42

Song of the Soldier

Selected for Mother and Sister.

I shine in the light of god/This likeness stamps my brow, Through the shadow of death my feet have trod...

GLC02751.41

Le Mie Prigoni [German] , The Ideal Poland, The Epitaph and Appel a La France [French]

Ideal Poem written for the Princess Maria-Sorgueevan Troubetskoy. A Fullness of Unspent Passion/And Passing the Love of a a Woman/A A Glory on Faces Ashen/A Pain Which is Scarcely Human.

GLC02766.064

Abraham Lincoln Foully Assassinated, April 14th 1865, from the London Punch

Nineteen stanza poem, an anonymous tribute to the late President, McParlin copied from Punch magazine.

GLC02649.22

Poem

Two stanza poem in McParlin's hand (author unknown) about someone being watched over from the heavens. Written on stationery of the 37th U.S. Congress, House of Representatives.

GLC02649.24

Poem for the Christening of Charles Ambrose WIlliam Dawes

At Bernhill Church.

GLC02679.66

Bryant, W[illia]m Cullen.

Photograph by A.A. Turner. ; Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Half length seated portrait of Bryant as an old man. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.33

Burns, Robert.

With Taber imprint on verso. Identification printed on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount .

GLC06391.35

"Longfellow Children."

Image of three young girls embracing one another. Photo from painting or engraving. White mount with "Longfellow Children" inscribed on verso in pencil.

GLC06391.08

Carte de visite of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Half length seated portrait of an older man in civilian dress, facing proper left. White mount.

GLC06391.09

Halleck, Fitz-Greene.

Photograph by A.A. Turner. Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.18

Lowell, James Russell.

Tilton imprint on recto. Identified in ink on verso. Vignette half length seated portrait, holding cane. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.19

Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States : delivered before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, May 3, 1865 by Elias Nason

Published by William V. Spencer. Inscribed " Conn. Historical Society Hartford Conn." Discusses Lincoln's life and accomplishments.
Includes a poem on page 27 entitled "The Burial of Lincoln."

GLC02913.04

to Roscoe G. Greene re: Grey's Elegy, the Constitution

Adams comments at length upon punctuation in Grey's "Elegy in a Churchyard" (and the powers of Congress as limited or expanded by a semi-colon in the Constitution. He also writes that "No land of slavery could ever have produced Grey's Elegy."

GLC02847

to Thomas Paine

President Washington thanks "Thos Paine - of Boston" (not the famous author of "Common Sense," who was in Paris until 1802) for a poem inscribed to him.

GLC02858

to Anne C. Lynch

Thanks Lynch for a signed collection of her poems that she sent as a gift. Written at the Allanlee House.

GLC04623.02

A Woman is a Blessing [poem] (with ALS of his brother 6/20/1903)

GLC04352.08

Autograph signature on titlepage of 1882 edition of "Leaves of Grass"

GLC04353.10

4 stanza poem, "In Blooming Orchards"

GLC04353.13

to Julia [Comstock] re: to fiancee with short love poem

GLC04353.14