AUTOGRAPH FAIR COPY OF HER FAMOUS POEM 'LITTLE THINGS', included in an autograph letter signed, to Mr Field.

FLETCHER, Julia Abigail, Mrs Carney.

Edité par 223 West North St Galesburg Illinois 22 February, 1892

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Manuscript in ink, 8vo (175 x 110mm), two pages; tipped onto later paper. An autograph copy the most famous poem by the teacher and poet Julia Abigail Fletcher (1823-1908). She explains to her correspondent almost certainly the writer Eugene Field (1850-95), who had briefly been to college in Galesburg when and how she came to write it: the first verse was written in 1845, in Boston, as part of a tract for Sunday School use, the remainder 'the next morning in the teacher's class in Fremont Temple as an exercise in Pitman's Phonography. I have since forgotten the phonography but the world will not let me forget the little poem'. Indeed, Fletcher's sentimental religious poem was her most famous and widely-reprinted work, many times anthologised.

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• Titre: AUTOGRAPH FAIR COPY OF HER FAMOUS POEM 'LITTLE THINGS', included in an autograph letter signed, to Mr Field.
• Éditeur: 223 West North St Galesburg Illinois 22 February
• Date de parution: 1892
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry