Description
This poem, A Rhyme of Life by Charles Warren Stoddard, has been clipped from a newspaper and pasted in the front, inside cover of The Kansas home cook-book (1879)
Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society
Provenance
This copy of The Kansas home cook-book is heavily annotated and includes both manuscript and newspaper insertions. The book is inscribed "Alice Phinney," though the last name is somewhat illegible and may be a different name. The inscription is dated Nov 30th, 1879.