"America"

the first printing of the national hymn and the very copy used by Pastor William Jenks while he conducted the first celebration of the Fourth of July exclusively arranged for children in the Park street church in Boston on July fourth, 1831. A broadside printed as program. Here the hymn was printed for the very first time and in its original form of five stanzas. Autographic notes of the sermon delivered at this occasion, on verso. In the house of Pastor Jenks at number 58 Melrose street, Boston, this hymn had been written by the youthful missionary S. F. Smith... Printed here in facsimile for the first time for a few friends by the American autograph shop: Christmas 1936