TRANSCENDENTALIST

On both sides of white card, 6.5 x 10 cm, with three lines in Latin (beginning 'Venisti centum') on one side, signed at foot 'H. B. Sanborn | Concord Feb 17. 1886', and the English translation in six lines on the other side, also signed at foot: 'F. B. Sanborn | Concord Feby 17 '86'. The translation reads: 'I kept my bed; to ease my pain | You came, good doctor, with your train; | A hundred hands, colder than Boston greeting, | Fingered my pulse to count its languid beating. | I had no fever, Dr Puff!

American Educator, established first kindergarten in the USA (1860), sometime Boston bookshop owner, author, member of the Transcendental Club, etc. (see American DNB). A four-line poem in eight lines, one page, c.8 x 5", laid down on another stiffer paper, some ruckling, final word blotched, mainly good condition. First line: "What is Beauty but God, / as He comes to the Eye? . . . [final line] But Eva will be Heaven / tomorrow." She has added " Aged 82".