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51 pieces. Dates of these poems are unknown, but probably range from mid 1800's to early 1900's. Genre includes newspapers, cards, broadsides, books, postcards and music store advertisements. Titles include: Cottage by the Sea, Mary of Argyle, Uncle Ned, On de Oder Side of Jordon, Cary Me Back to Ole Virginny, The Course of Empire, The Old Sexton, The Bell of St. Paul's, Some Fugitive Rhymes by An Old Confederate Soldier, The Conquered Banner, The Roses nowhere bloom so white as in Virginia, Old Virginia Moves at Last, When Love for His Maker Awoke in Man, The Dance Began, Join Hands, poem by Judge George L. Christian of Richmond, Virginia about Civil War, poems from the December 1930 issue of the American Poetry Magazine, The Wages of Sin, Mistakes (1854) by Annie, The Fox Meditates by Rudyard Kipling and illustrated by Lionel Edwards, The Three Reasons by John G. Saxe, Enigma by John P. Brown, The Young Widow, The Wife of Crawford by L.H. Sigourney, A Gem, Growing Old Together, I Find No Light, Hymeneal Poem and Christmas Bells.

Little Things are best". Addressed to Miss Stott. undated 1 page. "A Present of Doggerele to E.A. Henry, Jr." October 10, 1808. 1 page. "Adams and Liberty." Possibly written soon after the Revolutionary War, but glued on a newspaper dated November 19, 1845. "Ou a Jamais Eater-Suit." About land-case and water-case. November 13, 1859. "Anniversary." Probably written by a woman. September 29, 1869. "Are We Almost There?" Addressed to Mrs. Patsy Holladay. About a girl dying. undated "Hans Breitman's Party." Written in a mix of German and English. Humorous. undated "Hop". Addressed to Miss Philomela Rollo. undated "Shall We Know Each Other There?" About Heaven. undated "Two Pictures." Comparing young and old face of his wife. Written on back of stationery for W.W. Scott, State Law Librarian, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. February 22, 1912. "The Washing Day." undated "Remember Thee …" Partial Poem. Signature could be "M. Lou Bowles." undated "A Memento to the Departed!" January 1852. "From Georgia's Southern…Potomac's Either strand, Where Carolina's Fountains…" …" Possibly from a prisoner of war during the Civil War. Written on the back of an account sheet. undated "As I was going to …town I broke my yoke…" undated "If." Anon. About love. undated "To My Friend." C.H……of Ohio. Washington, D.C. July 10, 1846. "Reader, if ..the hand of envious care…" and "Melphemene! Fair muse to thee…" Two poems on one sheet with different handwriting. "Coroper's Grave." "It is a place where poet's …" undated "Cottage by the Sea." "The Last Rose of Summer." undated "In Virginia." Partial author name, Harry Currault…" undated Poem on one sheet about manufacturers and cars, with a play on words. undated. Handwritten poem "A Damsel burnt for not submitting to Popish Idolatry" by unknown and undated. Handwritten hymn "Come you that fear the Lord." Handwritten music for a "Spanish Hymn."