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Old Ironsides : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed : Boston, 1865 Jan. 21.

BIB_ID
101933
Accession number
MA 925.60
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1865 Jan. 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Annie Fields, 1915.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Part of an album of manuscript poems and letters of nineteenth-century English and American authors collected by Mrs. Annie Fields, author and literary hostess in Boston. Manuscripts in the album are described in individual records; see MA 925 for more information.
Poem composed in 1830 to protest the dismantling of the frigate Constitution.
Presented to Annie Fields.
Provenance
Annie Fields.