The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces Section IX - A Book of Autographs

In which a faded book of Revolutionary autographs becomes a little necromancer’s volume, calling forth the hands, tempers, and half-hidden souls of patriots from their yellowed paper. Through those frail relics, the past steals near in a grave, domestic twilight, where public greatness is softened by ink-blots, signatures, and the mortal touch of the pen.