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Songs : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
104235
Accession number
MA 1617.597
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1875 March 16-30.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.9 x 20.5 cm
Notes
With pencil revisions and comments in the hand of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Includes: I. "Maiden of the golden tresses;" II. Puissance du Souvenir ("Since my will hath all possessed"); III. Nostalgie ("Would I were clear of the Present that urges"); IV. Romance ("Impecunious!--Life reproaches").
Henley has dated poem II March 25-30, 1876, poem III, March 16, 1875 and poem IV, March 20, 1875.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Four poems titled "Songs" and then titled "I", "II / Puissance du Souvenir," "III / Nostalgie" and "IV / Romance."