"Home, Sweet Home," an original holograph copy of the poem and ballad, signed by the author and inscribed by him at the bottom to the wife of Daniel Webster's secretary "for Mrs. Zantzinger, who knows so thoroughly the way, and exercises so sweetly the power, to render Home what Heaven meant it should be. Washington, March 28, 1851."
Accompanied by five autograph letters from Payne to Zantzinger, signed 27 October 1849 – 4 May 1851. Washington, DC, 1851. The poem is written on a sheet of stationery, 8 x 6 1/2 inches embossed at the edges, and mounted on a larger sheet (9 x 8 3/4 inches); a...... More