SOURCE: "Chapter XVII: Mary's Lamb and Mr. Ford" in The Lady of Godey 's: Sarah Josepha Hale, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1931, pp. 279-305.
In the following excerpt, Finley discusses the controversy surrounding Hale's authorship of the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
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