To my aged father : on hearing of his recent calamity, in having his office destroyed by the late fire in School Street : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1855 or later].

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.
Presented to Annie Fields.