Forget-Me-Not: Poems

Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers, 1872. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine faded, pencil note on page 5. 1872 Hard Cover. 112 pp. A collection of poetry by Lillian E. Curtis, who was born and raised in Chicago and wrote three collections of poetry, one of which was destroyed in a fire before it could be published. Her work generally leaned toward sentimental or sad topics.