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A currently unidentified writer copied six Protestant Christian hymns and songs into this volume sometime around the 1850s. The 16 pages of text include "Montgomery", "The Romish Lady", "The Orphan's Song", "Gloom of Autumn", "Remember the poor; or, the Widow's Prayers" (by Rev. H. G. Barrus), "Dying Hymn" (by Alice Cary). The copyist wrote the hymns and songs in a slim blank book with blue-green covers. The front cover bears a printed decorative border at the center of which is an armored prince with sword and shield, standing before a seated Clio with two books and holding out a quill pen to him. Surrounding text explains the relationship between history and "men's great actions." The back cover bears a printed multiplication table and advertising information for Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., Publishers, Booksellers, and Stationers, 29 Cornhill, Boston (including a list of popular books and music books published by Mussey, and types of stationery supplies).

A currently unidentified writer copied six Protestant Christian hymns and songs into this volume sometime around the 1850s.

• "Montgomery"
• "The Romish Lady"
• "The Orphan's Song"
• "Gloom of Autumn"
• "Remember the poor; or, the Widow's Prayers" (by Rev. H. G. Barrus)
• "Dying Hymn" (by Alice Cary)

The copyist wrote the hymns and songs in a slim blank book with blue-green covers. The front cover bears a printed decorative border (with quills) at the center of which is an armored prince with sword and shield, standing before a seated Clio with two books and holding out a quill pen to him. Surrounding text explains the relationship between history and "men's great actions." The back cover bears a printed multiplication table and advertising information for Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., Publishers, Booksellers, and Stationers, 29 Cornhill, Boston (including a list of popular books and music books published by Mussey, and types of stationery supplies).

Poet Will Carleton of Detroit, Michigan, created this issue of The Gazette (vol. 1, no. 6), an apparently unpublished literary magazine, in December 1871.

Will Carleton of Detroit, Michigan, created this issue of The Gazette (vol. 1, no. 6), an apparently unpublished literary magazine, in December 1871. Pagination [1], 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 4, 8, 9, 11, 10, 12, 13, 15, 14, 16. Portions, particularly the fifth leaf (pages 9/11), are mutilated, with text loss.

The 16-page production includes an editorial, "News and Notions," "The Poet's Corner," "Current Clippings," "Selected Miscellany," "A Memorial to Alice Cary," and a "Special Announcement." The Poet's Corner section includes "The Editor's Table," an early draft of Carleton's "The Editor's Guest", published in his Farm Ballads (1873). Carleton's memorial to Ohio and New York poet Alice Cary includes her last words to him, although this portion of the manuscript is tattered and has considerable text loss. Throughout The Gazette are handwritten copies of text from other newspapers, including items by Charles Dudley Warner, Fanny Fern, Mary Clemmer Ames, and others.