Details
SMITH, SAMUEL FRANCIS. Autograph manuscript signed ("S.F.Smith"), a fair copy of his "America" ("My Country 'tis of thee..."), n.p., dated "1832-1880" (1832 was the year of publication of the poem, and 1880 presumably the date of this copy), 2 pages, 8vo, written in ink on rectos only of two sheets of lined paper, neatly tipped to a blank sheet and bound with a cabinet photograph of Smith, dark blue straight-grained morocco gilt, t.e.g., ivory watered silk doublures and liners, cloth slipcase.
Provenance
Anonymous owner (sale, Christie's New York, 8 December 1989, lot 85).