Two items by the writers known for their patriotic lyrics: an ALS signed “S. F. Smith,” one page, 5 x 8, November 13, 1893, in part: “Your two letters are at hand,—one, of thanks, which I appreciate; the other inquiring about a copy of America, with portrait accompanying…The sheet was gotten up, I think about in Dec. last, for some sort of school fair or bazaar, so called, by a female school teacher”; and an AQS signed “James R. Randall,” one page, 8.5 x 11, August 28, 1905, in part: “Hark to an exiled son's appeal, Maryland! Mother State, to thee I kneel, Maryland! For life and death, for woe and weal, Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, Maryland! My Maryland!” In overall fine condition.
