The wimmin. [ca. 1887?]

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The wimmin. [ca. 1887?]

A small manuscript booklet by Eugene Field, containing his poem The wimmin. Field apparently wrote the poem out, embellishing it with an illustration and by writing in colored inks, for Ida Dixey, the wife of actor Henry E. Dixey.

[8] leaves, bound ; ill. ; 18 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7264445

University of California, Los Angeles

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Dixey, Mrs. Henry E.,

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Dixey, Henry E., 1859-1943

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American actor. From the description of Autograph and typewritten letters signed : 117 West Fifty Sixth Street, New York, to J.E.M. Sandford, 1884 Jan 29 to 1886 March 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270127093 ...

Field, Eugene, 1850-1895

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Eugene Field, an American writer, was born in 1850 to Rosewell Field and Frances Reed. After his mother's death in 1856, he and his brother were sent to live with a cousin in Amherst, Massachusetts. He studied at Williams College from 1868-69. He then studied for a short time at Knox College in Illinois and at the University of Missouri. He married Julia Sutherland Comstock on October 16, 1873. He wrote weekly newspaper columns and also published volumes of poetry and prose. Field died on Novemb...