BIB_ID
108538
Accession number
MA 903.3
Creator
De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
Display Date
Place not identified, not before 1850.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Contains numerous autograph edits.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight as part of the Knight Collection, 1908.
Summary
Being part of an essay on America and a rediscovery of his early works; referring to the rapid growth of the American nation; mentioning that "a publishing house in Boston" has managed to unearth many of his old writings: "things forgotten they restored to memory : things buried they endowed with life [...] And the result was - that in effect I stood before a new genera[tion]."
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