LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Autograph manuscript signed of the poem "Invita Minerva" ("The Bardling came where by the river grew The pennioned reeds, that in the westwind blue..."), Cambridge, Massachusetts, n.d. [1855?]. 2 pages, 8vo, 30 lines in 5 stanzas, written on pages one and three of a four page sheet, second leaf inlaid to a larger sheet, bound with an etched portrait in olive morocco elaborately gilt, white watered silk doublures and end-pages, g.e., by C. Walters, spine a bit rubbed. A fair copy, apparently sent by the poet to a printer, with note at end: "Send proof to J.R. Lowell, Cambridge, Mass."