Excerpt from A Vindication of the Claim of Alexander M. W. Ball, of Elizabeth N. J., To the Authorship of the Poem, Rock Me to Sleep, Mother But in the following Summer Mrs. Akers felt constrained to write the most unfortunate letter of her life, found on the third and fourth pages of the Second Article and this elicited from Mr. Ball the two letters which follow it. No further reply has ever been received from Mrs. Akers. N o suit has ever been commenced against Mr. Ball or Mr. Dodd to settle the question on proper evidence before a legal tribunal. Mrs. Akers has never since been heard from either by a reply to the letters, by suit, or in the public prints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.