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The city of dreadful night : autograph manuscript of the poem, 1870 July 10 - 1873 Oct. 29.

BIB_ID
116190
Accession number
MA 676
Creator
Thomson, James, 1834-1882.
Display Date
1870 July 10 - 1873 Oct. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
2 items (40, 22 p.) ; 15.4 cm.
Provenance
From the collection of Edmund Clarence Stedman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G.D. Smith in 1911.
Summary
Being a poem in twenty-one cantos, each of varying lengths, and a Proem of six stanzas; revisions throughout; each canto is dated and a cumulative line count is recorded at the end of each canto.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (25.2 cm)