Post card printed on heavy white paper. Reproduction of black-and-white photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sitting at table. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Poem in three four-line stanzas within line border surrounded by drawing. Title from first line. At end of text: Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Murphey. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because Brown University item acquired with other holiday greetings by Murphey dated 1936, 1937 and 1939; one of them bears the address "Augusta, Georgia."
Verse in thirty-two stanzas satirizing an unpopular tutor at Yale College. Written and recited in the college chapel by Auxcencio Maria Penã, a student from Mexico who was afterward expelled. Copies of the printed poem were said to have been concealed, in 1829, between the ceiling and the wood closet door in the front middle room, fourth story, north entry of old South Middle (later Connecticut Hall), where they were discovered after a fire in Dec. 1890. See Yale University, Manuscripts & Archives, where it is also noted that the tutor was said to be George Jones, BA 1823. "The late Charles Harvey Townshend, Esq., of New Haven about the year 1880 met Mr. Robert Livingston of New York while crossing the Atlantic. One day while Mr. Livingston was telling him of his experiences while a Yale student, he asked him, if he ever had the chance, to look in the front middle room, fourth story, north entry of old South Middle College, between the ceiling over the wood closet door. He said that in 1829 he placed there a bundle of printed sheets of 'doggerel verse,' a grind on a tutor of those days. These verses were recited by the composer, Peña, a Mexican (who was afterwards expelled) in the college chapel, on a Wednesday afternoon. Most of the class was expelled afterwards, for various reasons, and Mr. Livingston, who was one of them, said that his father always told him that he did perfectly right in not telling who wrote the verses. A fir [sic] broke out in Old South Middle in December 1890, and Mr. Townshend, with the permission of the then occupants of the room, searched the ceiling of the front middle room in accordance with Mr. Livingstons [sic] directions. He found there the bundle of verse, just as Mr. Livingston described."--Article in a Dec. 1890 issue of the Morning journal and courier (New Haven, Conn.), quoted by Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts in a Web catalog description (their "Newest entries 12 October 2008"). Text in two columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 27.3 x 17.4 cm.
Within ornamental border. Poetry in twelve four-line stanzas with chorus beginning "Just look at my long tail blue" Text printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornaments at ends: Sold who[lesale a]nd re[tail at Hu]nts [&] Shaw at N.E. corner of Fanieul Hall Market, Boston. Above was listed as the first address in 1834. Cut of African American at head of text in first column.
Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at ends; Sold Wholesale and Retail at Buruham's [sic], S.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. Cut of man in tails at head of text in first column.
Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising between rules with type ornaments at ends. Between columns: Sold wholesale and retail, with a variety of other songs, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. At head of first column wood-engraving of African American man wearing striped trousers and tailcoat. Text of song in 16 four-line stanzas and four-line chorus beginning: Just look at my long tail blue. Deming used this address between 1832 and 1837.
Don McKay. Broadsheet. Short poem on publisher's flier, advertising the Authors's book, Long Sault. 1975. On recto: title and name of author superimposed on map; on verso: poem and imprint information. Printed in black and red on yellow paper. First line: Long Sault. Rapids. Energy raw.
Facsimile autograph. At head of text: The Long Island Farmer Poet ... By request this was composed for a young friend, to read to his lady love.
At head of title: The Long Island Farmer Poet. Facsimile autograph.
At end of text: Bloodgood H. Cutter. Internal evidence suggests pre-war publication.
Signed, in print, at end: Bloodgood H. Cutter, Little Neck April 2, 1861.
Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Signed, in print, at end: Bloodgood H. Cutter, Little Neck, August 20th, 1863.
Within border of type ornaments. Facsimile autograph.
Dated "Nov. 26, 1861."
Signed, in print, at end: Bloodgood H. Cutter, Little Neck, L.I., Feb. 1865.
At head of title: Long Island Farmer Poet. Facsimile autograph.
At head of title: In memoriam.
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Contains section within poem with title "To the Painter" Internal evidence suggests an 1880's imprint date; day given at end fell on Saturday in 1889. Type-signed at end of text: Bloodgood H. Cutter. Little Neck, L.I., Dec. 28th.
At head of title: Long Island Farmer Poet. Facsimile autograph.
Facsimile autograph. Signed, in print, at end: Little Neck, Long Island, 1886 Boodgood [sic] H. Cutter. Vignette portrait of author at head of title, with caption: Bloodgood H. Cutter, The Long Island Farmer Poet.
