Ames Blood and Royal Henry Blood Memorial Fund for the maintenance of the library, and another $10,000 to the town of Temple, New Hampshire, $8,000 for the erection of a schoolhouse, to be known as the "Henry Ames Blood and Mary Miller Blood School," and $2,000 for the care and maintenance of the town common. These bequests were to be paid after the death of Col. Whitman. Works Blood's The History of Temple, N. H. (1860) is still considered an important resource for the history of that region. His poetry was highly regarded and anthologized in his own day, when he was considered in the first rank of American poets, but has been dismissed as overly-sentimental by later critics. Among the periodicals and newspapers in which his verse appeared were Boston Advertiser, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Christian Union, Dollar Monthly Magazine, Flag of Our Union, Harper's Weekly, The Independent, The Knickerbocker Monthly, The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, New England Magazine, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Tribune, Scribner's Magazine, The Home Journal, and The Youth's Companion. Blood's dramatic works appear never to have made much of an impression, either in his own lifetime or since. At least one of them (How Much I Loved Thee! (1884)) was published under the pseudonym of Raymond Eshobel, which is an anagram of the author's name. Bibliography Nonfiction The History of Temple, N. H. (1860) (Google Books e-text) "Germany" (article) (1872) Proceedings in the Internal Revenue Office Commemorative of the Late Judge Israel Dille (1874) Drama The Emigrant (1874) Lord Timothy Dexter, or, The Greatest Man in the East (1874) (Google Books e-text) The Spanish Mission, or, The Member from Nevada (1874) How Much I Loved Thee! A Drama (1884) (Google Books e-text) The Return of Ulysses Poetry Dates are of first publication if known; an "a." before a date indicates the poem appeared in an anthology or collection of that date (original publication was likely earlier); an asterisk indicates the piece was collected in Blood's Selected Poems. Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood (collection, 1901) (Google Books e-text) (Internet Archive e-text) "At the Door" (ca. 1860) "The Chimney-nook" * (The Home Journal, May 5, 1860) "Pro Mortuis" * (New York Post, Jul. 15, 1862) "Sighs in the South" * (New York Weekly Tribune, Oct. 13, 1862) "May Flowers" * (New York Weekly Tribune, Apr. 26, 1863) "The Sale