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Elegiac lines, inscrib'd to Mrs Knox, occasioned by the death of her infant daughter, who deceas'd near Pluckemin N. Jersey July 2 1779

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10473 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 2 July 1779 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 50.6 cm, Width: 18.8 cm Order a Copy

Signed "JBC." "This little Cherub like some blooming flower/ The soft Exotic of an happier clime/ Shrunk from the dawn of beauteous Childhood Hour/ And, drooping sought It's native realms sublime..."

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