Untitled (book inscription)

My dear Miss Knowles, this little book

     Is pretty weak and thin;

But I sincerely promise you

Louise I will much better do

     When I print one ag’in.

c. July 10, 1912

(a Louise J. Knowles authored volume entitled ‘Thoughts In Metre’ in 1889)

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