A deed of the pen : march- two-step / by the composer of "Hiawatha".
Morét, Neil, 1878-1943. 2000. “A Deed of the Pen : March- Two-Step By the Composer of ‘Hiawatha’”. Detroit : Whitney-Warner Pub-Co, Class, Race, and Sheet Music at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/lpemusic/item/3588
- Description
- For piano.
- Composer's name from caption responsibility statement.
- "Louisiana Purchase Exposition, respectfully dedicated to C.M. Huttig, vice-president."
- P. (2) contains the poem "A deed of the pen (the transfer of the Louisiana Territory)" by Louis Dodge, as well as a letter from Walter B. Stevens, Secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, commenting on the appropriateness of the title and illustration for the fair.
- T.p. ill.: burgundy border; drawing of a woman in a long, white, medieval inspired gown with a gold fleur-de-lis pattern and a gold hem, holding a map of the Louisiana Territory in her right hand, and pointing to it with her left; behind her is a blue fleur-de-lis, and behind that are outlines of the tops of buildings, with banners and trumpeters atop the buildings; on either side of the woman are gold, round finials with the words "Saint Louis 1904" on one, and "World's Fair March" on the other.
- Subject
- Publisher -- Whitney Warner Pub. Co.
- Meeting -- Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) Songs and music.
- Topical -- Piano music.
- Topical -- Marches (Piano)
- Creator
- Morét, Neil, 1878-1943
- Publisher
- Detroit : Whitney-Warner Pub-Co.,
- Date
- c1903
- Format
- 7 p. of music : ill. ; 35 cm.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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- Site pages
- Westward Expansion
Morét, Neil, 1878-1943. 2000. “A Deed of the Pen : March- Two-Step By the Composer of ‘Hiawatha’”. Detroit : Whitney-Warner Pub-Co, Class, Race, and Sheet Music at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/lpemusic/item/3588