BIB_ID
107413
Accession number
MA 1351.1
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
ca. 1874 Mar.
Credit line
Purchased in 1950.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 21.1-22.5 cm
Notes
Collins first redrafted his play "The Frozen Deep" in narrative form for a reading in Boston in March 1874. It was later serialized in the Temple Bar and published in book form.
Part of a collection of two manuscript drafts and one playbill for Collins's "The Frozen Deep."
Part of a collection of two manuscript drafts and one playbill for Collins's "The Frozen Deep."
Provenance
In a London sale (6 December 1923, lot 217); Oliver R. Barrett sale (Parke-Bernet, 30 October 1950, lot 253).
Summary
A rough sketch for the "First Scene" of the narrative version of Collins's "The Frozen Deep," based on his play of the same title, which was loosely inspired by the loss of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition in 1845.
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