Two handwritten items by 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, quoting from his song ‘Maryland, My Maryland,’ 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 very good to fine condition, with creasing, staining, and edge tears to the Randall sheet.
