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My ship at sea : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1868].

BIB_ID
118287
Accession number
MA 925.70
Creator
Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921.
Display Date
[1868].
Credit line
Bequest of Annie Fields, 1915.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
It is unclear whether this poem was written by Spofford or by her husband, Richard Spofford.
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.
Sent to the Atlantic Monthly for publication. "My Ship at Sea. May A.M." written on the verso in an unknown hand.
Provenance
Annie Fields.