Song Book No. 1.
[Children’s Manuscripts]. Porter, Lillie, compiler. Song Book No. 1 [wrapper title]. [N. p., ca. 1880s?].
Original yellow wrappers stitched over lined stationery (embossed with the device for Congress stationery), [24] pages in ink and pencil.
The compiled lyrics (and in one case the partial music) to various songs, ranging from the pious to the sentimental to the didactic, with examples such as “Angle [sic] guardians,” “The Happy Song,” “Home’s Sweet Harmony,” “Going Home,” “Dear Father ere we part,” and “The Exercise Song”—“Here we stand hand in hand, Reddy fore our exercise heads heads [repetition sic] upwrite with delight sparkling laughing eyes, chorus singinging cheeirly [sic] cheerily claping [sic] marily merily merily one two three dont you see where we love to be” [all sic]. Several of the songs don’t appear to have been published until the early 1880s, though a number are older. Lillie Porter’s name taken from a faint pencil signature on the upper wrapper. Lillie has a little trouble with her capital N’s (reversing them in the title in a couple of instances) and her spelling and handwriting suggest a young if enthusiastic anthologist. Wrappers a bit foxed and worn; some browning to the final leaf; in very good condition.
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