BIB_ID
108317
Accession number
MA 81.11
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
ca. 1857.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890.
Description
1 item (73 p.) ; 27.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 14 items related to Collins's "The Frozen Deep."
Written on the rectos and some versos of 73 pages. About 40 pages of the play in the autograph of Dickens, the remainder in autograph of an amanuensis, with autograph corrections and additions by Collins. With a pencil sketch (on the verso of p. 1) of the stage layout in the hand of Dickens.
Written on the rectos and some versos of 73 pages. About 40 pages of the play in the autograph of Dickens, the remainder in autograph of an amanuensis, with autograph corrections and additions by Collins. With a pencil sketch (on the verso of p. 1) of the stage layout in the hand of Dickens.
Provenance
Sale (London, Sotheby's, 18 June 1890, lot 2); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson, 1890.
Summary
Prompt copy of a play loosely inspired by the loss of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition in 1845.
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