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Lola Ridge: Postscript

American composer Charles Howard Marsh (1886-1956) wrote music for Lola Ridge�s poem �Dawn,� while he was professor of organ at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He inscribed the sheet music on 29 September 1934: �For Miss Lola Ridge, this bit of broken glass which reflects, I hope, some of the beauty of this splendid poem.� �Dawn� was collected in Ridge�s first book, The Ghetto, in 1918.

Sheet music, 1934

Lola Ridge, "Dawn." Music by Charles H. Marsh, signed autograph score, 29 September 1934.

Card, 1941

Lola Ridge, "Morning is a bird set for flight," picture postcard, 1941

The picture postcard pairs a favorite line of Ridge�s poetry from Firehead with a photograph by Harry Godfrey of a bird sculpture made from the horn of a steer, which Ridge brought back from Mexico in 1935. The postcard was tucked into Ridge�s diary after her last entry on Easter Monday, 14 April 1941.

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