Amazing. Great story although I hate reading stories like this because it reminds me of all the stuff from the 1800s I use to have. My Grandma got divorced in the 1960s and she married this guy whose entire family and ancestors were pack rats, it was something genetic where they would save everything, letters, coins, newspapers from the late 1700s to the late 1800s and when he died he willed me some of that stuff and one year I moved and I don’t know what happened, I lost all of it. I even had election buttons/medalions from the Lincoln/Douglas debate, buttons to vote for Lincoln, just incredible stuff. The best though was this huge collection of amateur poetry written by endless people that someone must have collected through the years, just a huge stack of it. A lot of it written in pencil, and they would write the day and year when they wrote it and I lot of it was REALLY old “1840” “1820” it was incredible and i LOST IT! All those poems forever gone.
That would have been an incredible find, for it all.
How did you lose the poems?