BIB_ID
104132
Accession number
MA 8017
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
1875 Dec.-1876 Jan.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 items (58 p.), unbound ; 21.0 cm
Notes
Including two title-pages, the first dated "December 75 / January 76 / Portobello" and including a quote from Robert Browning, "Take them, Love, the book & me together: / Where the heart lies let the brain lie also."
Poems dated individually 1875 Nov.-1876 Jan. 3.
Representing several successive revisions, most poems being present in draft and fair copy.
The verso of one leaf contains an unfinished poem ("I threw up the sash & listened," 15 lines); the verso of another leaf contains page 17 of an unidentified narrative ("his aforesaid ambassadors in England & France informed of his opinion...,15 lines).
Poems dated individually 1875 Nov.-1876 Jan. 3.
Representing several successive revisions, most poems being present in draft and fair copy.
The verso of one leaf contains an unfinished poem ("I threw up the sash & listened," 15 lines); the verso of another leaf contains page 17 of an unidentified narrative ("his aforesaid ambassadors in England & France informed of his opinion...,15 lines).
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke in 1955.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (22.2 cm)
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