- All Is Best Home Made" - a Manuscript, Anti-French Ode in Support of British-Made Hats

S. l. (England), By the author, 1830. Manuscript, n. d. (first half of the 19th century); single clream-colored sheet, with an elaborately-embossed margins and a hand-colored, pink band around edges; text in brown ink; light age-toning and a few minor spots; remnants from being previously affixed in a scrapbook to verso; in about very good condition. An amusing and a tad bizarre ode, it began: "But bless me! What two non-descripts together! The SHE - a pile of ribbon, straw and feather..a Bonnet! Aye, and an actual woman in it.." It continued on to mention Ross and Buchan (Arctic explorers James Clark Ross (1800 - 1862) and David Buchan (1780 - 1838)) - "Now for the HE..Have Ross or Buchan brought him to console, the quidnuncs for the passage to the Pole?" It ended with: "No, Paris has the honor..The thing is contraband - Let's crush the trade; LADIES insist on't - all is best home made." . Very good .

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