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Excerpt from A Vindication of the Claim of Alexander M. W. Ball, of Elizabeth, N. J., To the Authorship of the Poem, Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
I am certainly one of the last individuals in the world to take the humiliating position of contending in public or otherwise, for a matter of literary credit; and so long as this question was merely that of ability to write the poem in dispute it was simply amusing to me. But when it assumes, as it has latterly done, the attitude of a slander, liable to set me wrong in the Opinion of many whose regard is dearer to me than any newspaper praise could be. When I hear myself good naturedly designated in society, as the lady who pretends to have written, etc., it is high time to state the facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
