Abstract This small collection consists of the Richard Burton manuscript poem "Song of the Flag" (1891), a copyright application by J. J. McCook signed by Ainsworth Spofford, ephemera related to the presentation and raising of the American flag by the Grand Army of the Republic in 1894, nine copies of two editions of a musical score ("Song of the Flag", 1894, printed by The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co.), and a newspaper clipping (Hartford Courant)...