Item #824 PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES
PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES
PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES
PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES
PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES
PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES
PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES
PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES

PUBLISHER'S MANUSCRIPT FILES 1920-1927 POEMS & AMUSING STORIES

Item #824

30 manila envelopes contain published and unpublished works of various authors between 1900-1927. Most of the literary work is attributed to the publishing company Edgar S. Werner & Co. of New York. One work is the former property of Means & McLean of Chicago, another is from the Walter H. Baker Company and one is from the Advertising Department of the Buick Motor Company from 1920.

Authors include both men and women writers, and some noted are: Press Eldridge, Mary Elizabeth Jones, William King, Tommyanne Clark, M.S.T. Werner, E. S. Werner, Mary Hebard, Anne Chase, Minnie Sherritt, Evelyn Graham, Sam J. Banks, Marjorie M. LaFleur, Margaret Taylor, Pringle Barret, Maurice Smiley, etc. Some of the envelopes do not include the name of the writer.

Each manila envelope contains carbon copies of poems and stories, mostly are short and seem to be written for magazines, and one has a clipping of the published article. They mostly seem to be amusing anecdotes.

Some manila envelopes are torn. Copies of works are folded to fit the size of the envelope. Written on each envelope is the enclosed “Title” and “office copy”.

A couple of excerpts below:

“Race of the Leaves and Flowers
Cute verse for tiny children to impersonate

Ho, for a race! And ho, for a chase!
And ho, for a game of tag!
Hi willow away! Come Maple, don’t stay!
Now who do you think will lag?
Sharp blew the wind,
Low rustled the trees.
Loud sang the birds,
Away went the leaves.

Swift ran Miss Willow and swift ran Lord Oak
And hot grew Miss Maple and red,
Miss Tulip, poor soul, tumbled into a hole
And vowed her breath had all fled.
Hellter skelter, pell mell over stones into dell.
Ran the frolicsome, rollicksome crew,
‘Though who won at the chase, who nobody knows;
Now I wish I’d been there, don’t you?”
(Author unknown)

“Re-spon-si-bi-li-ty by Pringle Barret

Raising children may be pleasant
But still, it seems to me
To be a very, very great
Re-spon-si-bi-li-ty.

You sing a little lullaby
And rock them in your lap.
And then you leave them all alone
To take a quiet nap.

And how you hope they won’t wake up
Until you’ve washed their clothes!
They keep you very busy
All the morning, as one knows!

And when you go to Mrs. Smith’s
To spend the afternoon,
You really can’t hear half the news —
For you must go soon.

Raising children is a pleasure;
But it’s very plain to see
The greatest pleasures always mean
Re-spon-si-bi-li-ty.” (1927).

Price: $400.00

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