Content:
This manuscript bears trial lines for a poem attempting to link the
crusades to America. While other manuscripts and published works share
similarities in topic and idea, a direct link to any published document is unknown. The verso
contains a cancelled list of references to letters in the
House Executive Documents, 38th
Cong.
which correspond to several individual documents
transcribed on the cancelled versos of other crusade manuscripts also in
the Harned collection. Other dated materials containing notes on the
crusades suggest this manuscript was likely composed around 1869.
