Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — “Home, Sweet Home.” [ARTICLE]

“Home, Sweet Home.”

What a precious possession is that of the elderly lady in Athena who owns the original manuscript of the “Home, Sweet Home,” as written by John Howard Payne. The words of the poem, as first written, are all interlined, with here and there an endearing expression from the writer to the lady who now holds it. In the old days Payne was devotedly attached to her, and she has many of his letters that no eye save hers will ever see. She is a noble and high-minded woman, and the fit legatee of the memories of a true poet, and the manuscript of the best-known American poem. She has been offered a large sum for the manuscript, but, of course, no money could buy it. —Atlanta Constitution. Ik the Times, of Philadelphia, we observe; Mr. John McGrath, 1236 Christian street, was cored by St. Jacobs Oil of severe rheumatism.