The primrose : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed : Boston, 1858 May 18.

Below title: "Founded upon an incident that occurred in Melbourne in Australia -- when a multitude of people, estimated to have exceeded two thousand, congregated in the streets to see an English Primrose brought ashore from a ship in the harbour."
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.