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Draft of twenty-one pages of the manuscript for Peter Ibbetson, place not specified, 1890? : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
157517
Accession number
MA 2257
Creator
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1890?.
Credit line
Purchased, 1963.
Description
1 item (33 pages) ; 20.3 x 16.1 cm
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby, London, lot 299, May 27, 1983.
Summary
Being a notebook with drafts of twenty-one pages of Peter Ibbetson, with numerous revisions and deletions; written primarily on the rectos with revisions often on the verso; beginning at both ends of the notebook working toward the middle; with pencil notations, in an unknown hand, in the top left corner of each page indicating whether the text is from volume I or volume II and giving the corresponding page number; with five blank pages in the center of the notebook and evidence that some pages have been torn away.
Housed in
marbled paper wrappers.