BIB_ID
122555
Accession number
MA 6616
Creator
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 1790-1869.
Display Date
1836.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (331 p.) ; 27 x 21 cm
Notes
Originally housed in a brown leather keepsake box with gold and blind tooling, lettered "Jocelyn." This box has been retained and is housed with the manuscript.
With an autograph inscription from Lamartine, dated Paris, 25 May, 1865, presenting the manuscript to M. A. Rion. Also with an autograph inscription presenting the manuscript to Louis Leroy from M. Rion on 2 Aug., 1876.
With an autograph inscription from Lamartine, dated Paris, 25 May, 1865, presenting the manuscript to M. A. Rion. Also with an autograph inscription presenting the manuscript to Louis Leroy from M. Rion on 2 Aug., 1876.
Provenance
Given by the author to M.A. Rion; presented by M. Rion to Louis Leroy on 2 August 1876; from the collection of Gabriel Thomas (Sale, 1936, no. 415); The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection; gift of the Heineman Foundation in 1977.
Summary
A fair copy of the manuscript with a few corrections by the author. Preceded by the poem "Maria-Anna-Éliza" and the advertisement to the first edition.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (34.2 cm)
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