Amateur Gems

A collection of poems; topics include male friendship, Christmas, cats, summer, nighttime, and printing. Contributors include James Austin Fynes (1860-1928), Harry S. Barler (d. 1876), Morris W. Benjamin, (1857-1922), Richard Gerner, (1855 or 1856-1885), Wayland Hyatt Smith, 1859-1927), Jennie E. Straw Kruckeberg, (1856-1933), Correl Kendall (1857-1914), and Charles Townsend (1857-1917). Some of the authors use pseudonyms or initials.