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Song of sorrow : [poem in 5 stanzas of 4 lines each]

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Approximately 1865.
Call number: mssHM 22501
Creator: Cary, Alice (1820-1871)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown, [date of acquisition not identified]. Removed from MS. vol. entitled: Autograph Letters - American - Women. September 1938.
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