Writer and poet, author of Mary Had a Little Lamb. AQS of a stanza from an unspecified work, on a 5.5 x 3.75 cream sheet. In full: “Rugged Strength and…Beauty/ These are one in Nature’s plan;/ Humble Toil and Heavenward Duty/ These will form the perfect man.” She then adds “Philadelphia, March 14, 1856.” Affixed to a slightly larger gray-green sheet. In very good condition, with scattered light soiling and wrinkling and a couple of small repairs. R&R COA.
