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To Fanny Ellsler leaving England for the United States : autograph manuscript signed

BIB_ID
102003
Accession number
MA 3135
Creator
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885.
Display Date
London, England, 1840 April 13.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Hugh Bullock, 1975.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.8 x 18.6 cm
Notes
With a few revisions and corrections.
With publishing direction (or alternate portion of the title): For the New World.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Hugh Bullock, 1975.
Summary
A poem in six stanzas, the first of 18 lines followed by 2 four-line stanzas, then a 20-line stanza and concluding with two 4-line stanzas and last of which is "Let the bleak waters lie between / The Poet & the Poet's Queen; / They meet in fancy, meet in song, - / Life may be short but Art is long! / Rich'd M. Milnes."