BIB_ID
104016
Accession number
MA 1617.581
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1875-1876.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.8 x 20.6 and 22.4 x 18.6 cm
Notes
With penciled revisions, probably in the hand of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Autograph fair copies unsigned of three poems from an incomplete sequence, numbered XIV-XVI. Poem XV is dated April 12, 1875 and poem XVI is dated February 24-25, 1876.
Includes: XIV. Rondeau ("Let us be drunk, & for a while forget") [published in "A Book of Verses" (1888), p. 162 as "To F. W."]; XV. A Pot of Ale; XVI. "Fill the glass!--To the eyes full of glory".
Autograph fair copies unsigned of three poems from an incomplete sequence, numbered XIV-XVI. Poem XV is dated April 12, 1875 and poem XVI is dated February 24-25, 1876.
Includes: XIV. Rondeau ("Let us be drunk, & for a while forget") [published in "A Book of Verses" (1888), p. 162 as "To F. W."]; XV. A Pot of Ale; XVI. "Fill the glass!--To the eyes full of glory".
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
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