Poem "
For Mrs. Clark , " by
Ann Sophia Stephens , taken from
page 149 of an autograph book owned by
Josephine S. Clark , beginning
with the line "Let me perish in the early
spring,"
Autograph of
Henry Clay [Mathews ?] ,
Washington, D.C.
1850 Apr 5
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Autograph of Congressman
O[rsamus] B[enajah]
Matteson (1805-1889),
Utica, New York
1850 Apr 5
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Autograph of Lt.
John W. Danenhower (1849-1887),
naval officer in command of
The Jeannette which was crushed
in the ice while on an Arctic expedition in 1881;
writes, "The best of life is at the fireside - not in
the Polar regions,"
Olean, New York