Commonplace book. Titled on the flyleaf, Echoes from arsenal hill by Alexander Nicolas De Menil. Contains Preface, poems by De Menil including Aspiration, Her cause is dead, Heart truths, and Oh be not prout. (The last seems to be an earlier version of 0 Mortal be not proud by Alexander De Menil, published in Songs of minority [St. Louis News Co., 1906]) Also included in the book are two "oratorical compositions", The progress of St. Louis and Peace to America, and two untitled poems of other poets, Ethel Grey `weep not that fame's deep chalice is not thyne...' and Lydia Howard Sigourney `They have all passed away...' Engravings bound in book, clippings laid in. The flyleaf is inscribed "Auguste to Alexandre Christmas 1856", 1867 September 13 - 1868 January, Box: VMF 7, Folder: 4. Richard S. Hawes Collection, MS-VMF-vmf072. Manuscripts. https://aspace.wustl.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/136009 Accessed May 10, 2024.

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