BIB_ID
127331
Accession number
MA 357-359
Creator
Reade, Charles, 1814-1884.
Display Date
1862 June-1863 Mar.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
3 v. (ca. 823 leaves), bound ; 54 cm
Notes
Date is from the final page: "Begun June 1862 / End Mr. [March] 1863."
Some leaves with writing on both sides.
The Morgan Library also holds Reade's drafts of passages later suppressed or re-written (MA 360) and a fair copy of Hard Cash (MA 361).
With the following note (dated 1864) at the beginning of MA 357: "To my Executor / This is the / Manuscript of "Hard Cash" / all in disgraceful / disorder / Please not to destroy it / though. / I write English. And perhaps / in 40 years somebody may / discover it."
Some leaves with writing on both sides.
The Morgan Library also holds Reade's drafts of passages later suppressed or re-written (MA 360) and a fair copy of Hard Cash (MA 361).
With the following note (dated 1864) at the beginning of MA 357: "To my Executor / This is the / Manuscript of "Hard Cash" / all in disgraceful / disorder / Please not to destroy it / though. / I write English. And perhaps / in 40 years somebody may / discover it."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch, 1906.
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