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- GLC#
- GLC06319
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1882/06/01
- Author/Creator
- Guiteau, Charles, 1841-1882
- Title
- My Case [poem]
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 6 p. : Height: 32.4 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Faded ink. "For Saturday's Star." A poem justifying his assassination of President Garfield. "I executed / the Divine command. And Garfield did remove / to save my party / and my country / from the bitter fate of war...." The fifth page has had a slip of paper attached to lower third of page, adding six lines of poetry. (Some staining from the glue used.)
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