MARY’S LITTLE LAMB.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 49, 6 December 1890, Page 18

MARY’S LITTLE LAMB.

* Truth ’ writes : ‘ Allow me to correct a slight error which appears in vour la-4 issue under above heading : The author of “ Mary flail a Little Lamb” was Mrs Sarah J. Hale, who died at Philadelphia several years ago, aged eighty-six. With regard to the late Mrs Tyler’s connection with the poem, Airs Hale’s nephew is authority for the statement that’ she had no special person as a heroine. Mis Tyler doubtless had such an experience and it is not impiobable that some doggerel lines were written describing the same, but she was not the heroine of Mis Hale’s poem. The lines have been at times credited to a young (male) school 1 teacher. He may have written some lines about Mrs Tyler’s lamb, but if so, they have been lost, as Mis Hale’s authorship of the lines, as known to day, has been clearly proved.’