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

Record ID: 
116190
Accession number: 
MA 676
Author: 
Thomson, James, 1834-1882.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description: 
2 items (40, 22 p.) ; 15.4 cm.
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)
Provenance: 
From the collection of Edmund Clarence Stedman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G.D. Smith in 1911.