Item #40814 Autograph poem "Tender and true, adieu!"; signed. Jeanie Gould Lincoln.

Autograph poem "Tender and true, adieu!"; signed

Washington City: Jan. 14th, 1916. Large 8vo leaf, faint creases from previous folds, else near fine. One of Gould's earliest published poems, first appearing in print in A Chaplet of Leaves (1869) and produced here for the autograph collection of Howes Norris Jr., "Granddaddy of all the autograph fiends". Accompanied by a short autograph letter from Lincoln's secretary (?), apologizing for her delay in responding to Norris's request for an autograph "on account of dangerous illness in her family" Item #40814

Price: $150.00