5 Mar. 1840
Original paper slip text:5 June 1840–16 March 1846
Poem: "To the Muse of History Over the Clock In the Hall of the House of Representatives of the United States." ("Muse! quit thy Car! come down upon the floor...") 3 versions; M/JQA/42.59, 30 Sept. 1841, contains verses 2, 3, 4, 5, and 1 in that order, and in the title contains the words "perched on her Clock wheeled Car over the door fronting the Speaker's Chair in the" instead of "Over the Clock in the"; M/JQA/48.135, 5 June 1840, is in sonnet form, and text is quite different; M/JQA/48.139, 16 March 1846, is the complete long poem, with stanzas in another version, and some additional ones, in M/JQA/48.142–148
JQA—Poems, Hymns, Prayers, &c.
- 5 June 1840–16 March 1846 (cont.)
- M/JQA/42.59; M/JQA/48.135; M/JQA/48.139; M/JQA/48.142–148
- the change in the title, as in M/JQA/42.59, is also in M/JQA/48.139. One verse in M/JQA/48.146 bears date 12 April 1846
- 2 p., 1 p., 14 p., 8 p.
- Cf. JQA poem dated 21 Feb. 1848 (Ac).
- AMSS, sold Plaza Art Gall., (C. M. Depew Sale), 7 Dec. 1931, lot b; $80.00
- AMsS sold, American Art. N.Y. (Sabin Sale), 30 April 1936, lot 3; $110.00.
- AMsS sold, Parke-Bernet, N.Y. (Oberlaender Sale), 24 May 1939, lot 1; $55.00.
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