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PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD. Autograph manuscript signed of his song "Home, Sweet Home," Washington, D.C., 6 August 1850. One page, 4to, docketed on verso.
A fair copy of Payne's celebrated song, first sung in the opera "Clari, or The Maid of Milan," in 1832, the manuscript consists of two seven-line stanzas, inscribed at the end "To My friend Miss Alice Stetson." The poem here bears the title, "Home, Home! Sweet Home! and the same form is used in the refrain of each stanza.
"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home! A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there
Which, seek through the world, is, ne'er met with
elsewhere!
"Home, home! Sweet, sweet Home!
There's no place like Home!
There's no place like Home!"
Provenance:
Marjorie Wiggin Prescott (sale, Christie's, 6 February 1981, lot 273).
A fair copy of Payne's celebrated song, first sung in the opera "Clari, or The Maid of Milan," in 1832, the manuscript consists of two seven-line stanzas, inscribed at the end "To My friend Miss Alice Stetson." The poem here bears the title, "Home, Home! Sweet Home! and the same form is used in the refrain of each stanza.
"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home! A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there
Which, seek through the world, is, ne'er met with
elsewhere!
"Home, home! Sweet, sweet Home!
There's no place like Home!
There's no place like Home!"
Provenance:
Marjorie Wiggin Prescott (sale, Christie's, 6 February 1981, lot 273).
Provenance