BIB_ID
104055
Accession number
MA 1617.579
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1875.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (26 pages) ; 23.8 x 19.0 cm
Notes
With penciled comments in the hand of Robert Louis Stevenson. The versos contain an incomplete autograph draft of a mystery story set in Spain.
Includes poems published in "Cornhill" as Sketches: I. First Impressions; II. Waiting; III. The Ward; IV. The Visit; V. Before Operation; VI. After Operation; VII. Night Picture; Portraits: III. Staff-Nurse: Old Style; IV. Lady-Probationer; VII. A Patient; and three unpublished poems: "Nurse/New Style," "Ennui," and "Marasm".
Includes poems published in "Cornhill" as Sketches: I. First Impressions; II. Waiting; III. The Ward; IV. The Visit; V. Before Operation; VI. After Operation; VII. Night Picture; Portraits: III. Staff-Nurse: Old Style; IV. Lady-Probationer; VII. A Patient; and three unpublished poems: "Nurse/New Style," "Ennui," and "Marasm".
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Being a heavily revised autograph draft of an early version of the sequence of thirteen poems numbered I-XIII and varying substantially from that published in "Cornhill Magazine", July, 1875.
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