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Handbill or small broadside. First separate edition. Measuring 3½" x 5". Printed in black on glossy white paper. Neat contemporary pencil owner name in upper margin ("Martha Martin"), lightly rubbed at extremities, else a near fine copy. Mary S.B. Dana Schindler (1810-1883) was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, and moved to Charleston at a young age. She was a prolific author of poetry, prose, fiction, and children's literature (including *The Young Sailor*, *Southern Harp*, *Northern Harp, Parted Family*, and perhaps her best-known work, *Letters to Relatives and Friends*). In 1835 she married Charles E. Dana, and spent time in New York City and Bloomington, Iowa; following the death of her husband and child, she returned to Charleston. In 1848 she married Rev. Robert D. Schindler, and lived in Nacogdoches, Texas. The recto prints *Of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven,* in 16 lines, beginning, "I dearly love a little child, And Jesus loved young children too, He ever sweetly on them smiled, And placed them with his chosen few… [the "u" in young, in the second line, is inverted, spelling "yonng"]. The verso prints The Ten Commandments, in 31 lines. *Of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven* is also published in Mrs. Dana's 1841 collection, *The Southern Harp*, and it was included in a few later poetry anthologies. Unrecorded by *OCLC*, which does note a few holdings of similar, broadside and song sheet titles by this author. Seller Inventory # 519632
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