This folder contains an autograph of composer Lowell Mason. In addition to his autograph, Mason writes that he is 80 years old January 8, 1872. He also wrote out 5 bars of a fanfare which he labels number 351. Below the fanfare is written in a different pen, “writer of Sacred Music died 1872.” Written in pencil on the back of the note is the message, “Lowell Mason, 1792 – 1872, composer of Nearer, My God, to Thee.” The autographed paper was donated to the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Institute for Studies in American Music by the Janet Boone Service Club, 1972.