Field, Eugene. Group of Eugene Field Personal Ephemera and Manuscripts. Over a dozen pieces, including a manuscript poem, ?The Explorer?s Wooing,? one page (8 ? x 5 ??) in Field?s neat handwriting, three stanzas, annotated on the verso: ?This manuscript is in the handwriting of my father, Eugene Field./Eugene Field II/Dec. 23, 1918?, hinged within a contemporary; an Elihu Root ALS invitation to Field to speak at the 88th Annual Dinner of the New England Society (?We all read you and admire you and know lots of you by heart.?), with Field?s manuscript notation that he had answered in the upper left; an 1886 railroad pass made out to Field for a trip from New York to Pittsburgh; a handbill (1893) for public readings by Field and George Cable in Rockford, Ill.; a blank letterpress invitation to a luncheon hosted by Field at the Union League Club (Chicago); a 1783 clipped play-bill in an envelope signed and annotated by Field; a cabinet-card portrait of the author (7 1/8 x 5?), ca. 1890s; a typed poem on carbon paper, ?The sad Ballard [sic] of Widow Gray (n.d.); two Scribner?s advertising leaflets; two printed poems with hand-colored figures (11 x 8 ??); a book of poems, Gems from Eugene Field (Cupples & Leon, n.d.), pictorial boards, backstrip with tears; an unsigned manuscript poem in unknown hand, entitled ?Heart and Tongue?; an early facsimile manuscript of a page of sheet music with words by Field; and several related items.