BIB_ID
116813
Accession number
MA 1351.2
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
ca. 1874 Mar.
Credit line
Purchased in 1950.
Description
1 item (40 p.) ; ca. 29 cm
Notes
17 pages written in the hand of an amanuensis and on the same paper as MA 81.12, Collins's pencil draft of a speech introducing his reading of the narrative version of his "The Frozen Deep."
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."
Watermark: Carew Co.
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."
Watermark: Carew Co.
Provenance
In a London sale (6 December 1923, lot 217); Oliver R. Barrett sale (Parke-Bernet, 30 October 1950, lot 253).
Summary
A nearly complete working draft 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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