BIB_ID
104049
Accession number
MA 8015
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (72 leaves.), unbound ; 13.4 x 20.6 inches
Notes
Leaves numbered 1-32, 1-24, 1-7 and 1-7; many pages written on the rectos or versos of fragments of stationery printed "St. George's Lodge / Chesswood Road, Worthing."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke in 1955.
Summary
Being an autograph manuscript of a draft of Henley's essay on Fielding; including a 3 page draft of the Preface to the Essay, the first two pages of which are written on Henley's stationery embossed "Heather Brae, / Maybury Hill, Woking."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (23.0 cm)
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