Balderston, Lucy Holmes, d.1881

The album contains 258 pages, including 76 poems and drawings, mostly by Baltimore friends of Lucy Holmes, contributed 1826-1848. A poem on p.55, headed, `Original' (but later known under the title `Alone') is in the hand of Edgar Allan Poe, as is another untitled poem of three stanzas on p.51, by W.H. Poe - copied at his request by E.A. Poe - . Both are believed to have been written circa 1829.