Soliloquy of Prof. John W. Webster after the disappearance of Dr. Geo. Parkman up to the time of his execution
[Boston? publisher not identified, 1850]. Folio broadside (12¾" x 8½"), the text in triple column beneath the running head, the whole within a decorative border; the text cut in strips and mounted on a later sheet, the last 8 stanzas and portions of the border in facsimile from the Brown University copy. Verse in fifty-four stanzas; first lines: "An awful discontent, is resting on my mind." John W. Webster was executed on Aug. 30, 1850, for the murder of George Parkman. Maine poet Mary G. Doe, daughter of Jeremiah Doe and Sarah Garland Doe, lived from 1801 to 1870. Not in McDade. OCLC locates seven copies: NY Historical, Mass. Historical, Harvard, AAS, Peabody-Essex, Brown, and Yale. Item #59117
Price: $350.00
