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The Garden Magazine, March, 1922 



A. G. Eldredge., Photo. 



"O GIVE ME MY LOWLY THATCHED COTTAGE AGAIN; 



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BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME;" 



John Howard Payne 



This unostentatious little dwelling with Wisteria its 

 chief glory, sheltered the writer of "Home, Sweet 

 Home" and has been in a manner immortalized, 

 for the simple ballad has become part of our national 

 memory though few of us remember its author 

 who while serving as American Consul at Tunis, 

 died there in 1852, far from this cottage of his 

 which still stands at Easthampton, Long Island 



