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To Ernest : autograph poem signed "Jane," 1801.

BIB_ID
304673
Accession number
MA 2919.3
Creator
Porter, Jane, 1776-1850.
Display Date
1801.
Credit line
Purchased, 1977.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to Miss Porter.
Part of a collection of manuscripts, letters, and printed ephemera related to Jane Porter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on the verso of a poem "To Miss Porter" (first line: "When at my Birth, the God of Names"), signed "Ernest" (seven 4-line stanzas). Jane Porter's "To Ernest" was apparently written in response to this poem.
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 14629); purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1977.
Summary
Seven 4-line stanzas, signed "Jane" and dated 1801.