It’s been a mild winter and is that a butterfly flying around? Well, not likely outside in Feb
It’s been a mild winter and is that a butterfly flying around? Well, not likely outside in February, but it’s happening in our special collections in this sweet little hand-colored pamphlet of the classic 19th-century poem for children, The Butterfly’s Ball , and the Grasshopper’s Feast. This rare edition (only 3 libraries in the U.S. have it) was published in Baltimore sometime in the 1840s, and is authored by William Roscoe who became know for his work as an abolitionist… -- source link
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