BIB_ID
104169
Accession number
MA 1617.612
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1875 February 19-20.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.7 x 20.7 cm
Notes
Place of writing is not provided however from published correspondence of the same period Henley would have been in the Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh at this time.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
A poem of 148 lines, beginning "Elephant, o mimic monster / Burly-trunked & heavy footed" and ending "Out, you execrable villain! / Sweet Saint Valentine's a humbug, / a detestable impostor! - - - / More's the pity, more's the pity."
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