Burdette, Robert Jones (1844-1914). Author, humorist; The Rise and Fall of the Moustache, etc. Four lines of verse on a sheet of paper:

         "Grant me, immortal gods, this boon below -

           Let me forget one half the things I know,

           And make me know the half I now forget,

           So ever prayeth"

Bryn Mawr, Pa, September 16, 1896. Near fine.