A vindication of the claim of Alexander M. W. Ball
Subtitle: of Elizabeth, N.J., to the authorship of the poem, Rock me to sleep, mother
By: by O.A. Morse ; with an introductory note from Luther R. Marsh.
Contributors: Marsh, Luther R. 1813-1902.; Ball, Alexander McWhorter, 1818-1878.; Leavenworth, Elias W. 1803-1887.; Leavenworth, Elias W. 1803-1887.
Publisher: M. W. Dodd
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Allen, Elizabeth Anne Chase Akers, -- 1832-1911
Other titles: Who wrote "Rock me to sleep, mother?"
Notes: Half-title: Who wrote Rock me to sleep?

Preface by E.W. Leavenworth, dated 1870.

Appended is an article "Who wrote' Rock me to sleep, mother'?" (36 p.) containing correspondence on the subject and an answer to an article in the New York Times, May 27, 1867.

Presentation copy: to AMW Ball by E.W. Leavenworth."

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, 1977. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American Poetry, 1609-1900 ; Segment III, no. 1730)